Posted on 01/31/2017 2:02:54 AM PST by lavaroise
I am inspired every time I hear one of you share the deeply held belief that we have an obligation, as Johnson & Johnson, to marshal our resources and help leaders around the world address the greatest healthcare challenges of today. The work we continue to do around the Zika vaccine is a terrific example of this collaborative approach in action.
Since the founding of our company in 1886, Johnson & Johnson has worked with 24 U.S. Presidents. We find common ground to address public health challenges and find wins for our patients, consumers and healthcare providers in every era.
I have had the good fortune to meet with two former U.S. Presidents, and it is in this spirit that, along with a small group of business leaders this week, I was fortunate to be invited to meet the new President. By now, you may have seen the headlines; my Aunt Kate did. The meeting made it into her hometown newspaper, the Kansas City Star, and she called me excitedly to ask what we talked about.
In fact, we discussed the critical issues of job creation, corporate tax and regulatory reform. The meeting was very productive and I look forward to working with the new Administration to support polices that will increase America’s growth and competitiveness. We’re very proud of the thousands of jobs we’ve already created in the United States, and look forward to providing more in the future as we continue to grow here, and throughout the world.
It’s important to me and Johnson & Johnson leaders around the world that you know we will continue our growth and competitiveness in all corners of the world - not just in America. While we’re proudly based in the U.S., Johnson & Johnson will always be a global company. The depth and breadth of our talent has, and will continue to be, discovered and developed everywhere we are.
With our global presence and diversity of thought and experience, we are closer to the patients and consumers who rely on our products each day. We have a better understanding of their particular needs in their particular marketplace. That’s exactly what we mean by “Global Reach, Local Focus.” I was so proud to represent our more than 125,000 person strong workforce based in 60 countries.
This is a time of profound change. As the science of human health and well-being has advanced, we’ve been able to continue to lead. Through more than a century of change, we’ve been privileged to play a role in helping millions of people the world over be well and stay well.
Johnson & Johnson has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing our country, our industry and a individually-felt responsibility to continue to lead globally. That leadership depends, as always, on the work that each of us does every day and our ability to work together. Bringing good health to every individual, every family and every community requires collaboration.
Being at the table with the President and other business leaders reminded me, once again, of the important work that you do and all we achieve together. When we apply our science, our caring, our innovative spirit and of course, Our Credo values, we know that it has a profoundly positive impact for families, patients, consumers and caregivers. I look forward to working with the new U.S. Administration and other leaders to help create better health care for the entire world.
Sincerely,
When you have China going bully and nationalistic and disrespecting international waters, muslims throwing gays off rooftops in Saudi Arabia, and what not other shenanigans, I find it hard to understand a globalism in a business that somehow would not favor the honor that America has shown in terms of tolerance to good business, nay, using the muscle to protect their globalism and international waters.
Only America has been protecting it, while the rest have been thugs with which feminine corporations dealt with so long they made their money.
This letter is cringy, imo.
In any case, it would seem sensible that such corporations
1. Either paid their taxes or supported the US military
Or
2. Allowed US import taxes so as to finance such military while reducing income taxes by exporting American workers.
Let it be known that the money they raise for their own globalist non profits are a tax in and of itself for their own system, but it is a paper tiger, if not one that seeks to erase history and thus promote disconnections of the like existing sociologically in prisons, gulags or communist slave camps known as collectives without family attachment but to a life summing up to machinations.
No mention of Trump by name in the letter.
It’s better than what we’ve read from some of these globalists. It should be noted that he’s listed as a demonrat at wiki.
There is nothing in itself wrong with growing one’s business in other countries. Let’s not forget that Trump has developed properties in several other countries. (I saw the Trump tower in Seoul, South Korea, on the way to Inchon airport.)
Where the globalism becomes toxic is when companies that built their business in the US decide to completely relocate elsewhere to take advantage of cheap labor and taxes, and then sell their goods back to the US after they no longer contribute to our economy. I think Trump is specifically targeting these companies with his new policies.
My problem is the horrid drugs they or any other Big Pharma produce and say that the small percentage of those effected by side effects is OK. Some of those side effects are for life or KILL. Some of these drugs are noting but EUGENICS...Gardasil is one.
Our current legal Opioid reduction for the 1.33 Million Chronic pain patients is a fine example. No cures for them, no one researching. Then the Government orders our pain meds cut off or reduced and people are committing suicide because they can’t stand the pain any more. Many have been forced onto disability where they were productive members of society when their pain was at a lower level. We are responsible users of our meds. All because a few didn’t follow the instructions.
I don’t want any of my meds coming from china instead of the USA.
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