Posted on 12/15/2015 9:48:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who made few friends in corporate board rooms early in his first term as he pressed for tighter regulations on banks and remarked on the "fat cats" who helped precipitate the financial crisis, heads into his final year in the White House having built – or rebuilt – alliances with chief executives of the nation's biggest companies.
The president and his top advisers have kept an open door for CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, keeping almost 1,000 appointments with them, a Reuters review of White House records shows. Of the hundreds of appointments listed, Obama himself was present at about half, ranging from intimate Oval Office gatherings to lavish state dinners. Obama is the first U.S. president to make White House visitor logs public.
"That number is the tip of the iceberg," said Valerie Jarrett, Obama's longest-serving senior adviser who runs his Office of Public Engagement. The president and his aides also regularly meet with representatives from the rest of the Fortune 500, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses, both in Washington and around the country, she said. The Reuters review included only the Fortune 100 list of largest companies, and was limited to White House meetings.
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Pigs at the trough, politicians sucking it up on the side..
What a racket. Big All-Connected Consuming Gubamint..
Open doors breed open borders breed TPP.. NAFTA.. ISIS..
Wow....just wow.
“Open doors breed open borders breed TPP.. NAFTA.. ISIS..”
WINNER!
Crony capitalism on display.
That’s always been the Democrat strategy from Tammaney Hall to the Chicago cesspool - slam to “fat cats” to get votes, then stuff your pockets with their money when you hand out favors on the down-low.
Obama Opens White House Doors for Final Year Shake-Downs.
There. Fixed it.
Needs to line his pockets like Bill and Hillary before he leaves office. How is the Barack Obama Foundation doing?
The USA Gov is sending Billions to American companies for “Special Contracts”
The one Intel got involved in had something to do with the NSA.
You couldn’t get answers on who was working on it or why.
The “Price” for Contract...support Obamacare and Global Warming.
Intel moved from one of the last Conservative Tech companies to an active Progressive in less than 10 years.
Just remember - this is NOT capitalism - it is cartelism - nothing to do with free-enterprise.
People really need to start using the word cartel.
The leftists are delighted to see the world dividing into a small ideologically co-sympathetic ruling class — and a helpless mass of proletarians.
I’m here to make you an offer you can’t refuse.
We are the 1%
Obama offers them the illusion of Mercantilism.
They will end up with Fascism shoved down their throats.
OBAMA IS INTERVIEWING FOR A NO SHOW JOB........
qualified to clean toilets... maybe
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