Posted on 03/10/2017 11:35:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
France’s top diplomat is pressing a French-Swiss cement manufacturer to rethink its bid to sell the United States material to build President Trump’s proposed border wall.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday that while construction giant LafargeHolcim can do what they want as a private company, the company should consider the social responsibility it has and the fact that the move could hurt its business with other clients.
"It should reflect upon what its interests are. There are other clients who will be stunned by this," Ayrault told France Info radio. "Lafarge says it doesn’t do politics. ... Very well, but I would say companies ... also have social and environmental responsibilities."
The comments from Ayrault came a few days after LafargeHolcim CEO Eric Olsen said he was prepared to supply the materials for the wall along the U.S.’s southern border with Mexico.
"We are the number-one cement group in the United States,” Olsen said, according to Agence France-Presse. “We are here to support the construction and development of the country. ... We are not a political organization."(continued)
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French cement?
As “solid” as their souffles?
France: Useless in so many ways. They allowed Muallim terrorists to enter their country to murder and rape their own people knowing that’s exactly what would happen and now this.
LaFargeHolcim is playing business. Their responsibility lies solely with their stockholders by generating profits for the company.
This social and environmental crap has nothing to do with making a buck. It has to do with making liberals feel good.
Government bureaucrats don't seem to know the difference. Here or in France.
Buy American. Employ Americans.
The French needed 4 more years of Obama refugee advice to get destroyed... damn it Obama! You fail again!
There’s a hell of a lot of foreign companies that employ millions of Americans and pay decent wages in many cases. Dallas/Ft Worth is full of them. It’s 2017, not 1817.
Lafarge knowingly was doing business with ISIS. They should be forbidden from a contract involving the security of America.
“Their responsibility lies solely with their stockholders by generating profits for the company.”
That was why they were doing business with ISIS. Immoral and irresponsible. By your logic they can sell cocaine, slaves, enrich ISIS, etc.
Link?
http://observer.com/2016/08/clintons-former-employer-lafarge-faces-allegations-of-funding-isis/
And they are Clinton Foundation donors.
Cool for Paris and France are both cool with Lafarge doing business with ISIS, but not the USA. Wikileaks blew this up last summer.
True, but in the case of disasters like lakes getting poisoned and cleaned up, that should be a serious concern, or the Union Carbide pesticide factory explosion. The global warming issues are rediculous, but in terms of civil action from actual poisoning of people and animals, that is a problem.
“France’s top diplomat is pressing a French-Swiss cement manufacturer to rethink its bid to sell the United States material to build President Trump’s proposed border wall”.
We don’t want them use American companies!
I wasn't using "logic". I was stating a fact. I just said that the primary duty of any business is to make money, specifically a profit. Otherwise, it is not a business. It is a social charity.
At least that is what my business professors at university told us. By definition, if your are not generating a profit, you are not in business.
You're talking mishaps, accidents and disasters, not the normal course of business.
Shit can happen in the world and it does on a regular basis.
I don’t want no frenchy cement!
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