Posted on 08/16/2017 10:05:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
I have a sneaking suspicion that there are conversations going on in the Cabinet about who will stand up and resign. I don’t think there will be a mass exodus, but I can imagine an agreement that some kind of symbolic resignation should be done.
I think it will be Mnuchin. He’s already sent out some signals about being unhappy. He’s richer than King Faroux and has never had political ambitions so it’s not like this will impact him in any real way. Plus, he’s Jewish so there is symbolism in him taking a stand on “support” of Neo-Nazis.
It’s the Internet Age. Warm bodies at a specific bricks and mortar address is no longer a necessity, is it? If these guys wanted to be productive, they could do it without a physical confab.
I’m thinking two things, not sure which is worse: They signed up with the intent to bail sequentially, or they are being bribed, threatened into bailing by people with enough juice to threaten a number of big-name CEOs.
He just did
Councils have both been shut down per President Trump’s tweet:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/897869174323728385
They’re pissed off because they’re not just getting thrown free money like Zero did with Goldman Sachs. “Whadyya mean there’s stuff that we gotta do?” This is also congress’s gripe with Trump. They loved it under Obama. He didn’t submit a budget, so they and Zero got to spend the budget any way they felt like. For 8 years, congress and the presidency were the best no-show job around. Moose-chelle still found a way to hate it, though.
I'm sure every one of these CEOs stated unequivocally in February that eliminating that monstrosity known as ObamaCare would be the single most effective step the U.S. government could take in 2017 to make this country more competitive in the global marketplace as a place to do business.
When the GOP-controlled Congress couldn't pass a half-@ssed ObamaCare reform bill that wasn't even close to the outright repeal that they had been promising for eight f#%&ing years, those CEOs knew they were wasting their time.
So not having a seat at the table at all is the way to go? It would be better to stay on the council and tell him, “Until Obozocare is gone, you’re not getting s#!+ out of me. Wanna honor your commitments or have every meeting be a bitch session?”
They will stop wasting their time, and they'll simply keep opening new manufacturing facilities in Latin America and Asia.
Nobody should ever have to tell a government how to create an attractive business climate. That's a message that's always best delivered as you're walking out the door.
That is why we need a uniform import tariff, lower taxes and regulations like WI did to get FoxConn to repatriate. No councils needed.
Someone on the left must be threatrning these guys with boycotts, IRS audits and investigations. These aren’t acts of conscience.
Unfortunately for the U.S., we are moving toward a future where we will no longer be the largest consumer market for many of the things these companies produce anyway. I'm sure the Ford Motor Company wouldn't give a damn if they never sell another Focus here in the U.S.
The thing is, presidents don’t write laws (even though Zero gave it the old college try). I’ll agree that Trump stumbled badly pushing for anything but nothing good can be done here, it’s just “I’m out because I didn’t get it 100% my way?” That’s childish, nobody gets everything they want. They’re just pissed because they’re not being thrown free money like Obama did with business leaders.
Maybe you’re right, but I can tell you that CEOs tend to be very cold, calculating, objective types who will always go where they feel their business is most welcome.
The next shoe to drop...
Trump Cabinet Secretaries and West Wing executives will start resigning.
Honestly, you’re probably more right. Still, I couldn’t see walking away from something like this. Going from a position of not-as-much-influence-as-I-hoped to zero influence doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I’m sure we’re not getting 1/10th of the story, I’d like to hear some rationale. Unfortunately, CEOs aren’t the type to explain themselves. Maybe the climate was really THAT bad.
We really don’t want big company globalists influencing Trump anyway. Good riddance.
I hope not.
Put nothing past the swamp, though.
...and you should see how many red dot Indians are running around this place - I’m working at 3M HQ and want to just... damage something. Some of the long-term career people told me about how they used to have prayer breakfasts here and the CEO would always speak. It was an honor. Now they champion LGBTQrstuv activist groups, HR inclusivity initiatives, diversity this and that, and every other kind of freak show that has manifest itself in the last decade.
If so its a good way to get rid of bad wood.
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