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Obama asks businesses to get behind climate bill(2000 America businesses sign on to Global Compact)
apnews.myway.com/ ^ | Apr 16 2010 | apnews.myway.com/

Posted on 04/17/2010 10:17:59 AM PDT by day21221

Obama asks businesses to get behind climate bill WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama wants business leaders to push Congress to pass long-stalled climate legislation. Obama made the plug during a meeting Friday with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which includes the heads of General Electric, Caterpillar and Oracle, along with labor leaders and economists.

He told the group that the climate bill - which would cap global warming emissions - is good for business.

Obama said that individual members of Congress may be worried about the short-term implications of voting for the bill and that hearing from businesses would be reassuring. Energy legislation narrowly passed the House last year and some Democrats came to regret their support. It's up next in the Senate, after financial reform, Obama said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: businesses; climate; compact; global
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http://www.unglobalcompact.org/ What is the Global Compact?The United Nations Global (((((Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.))))) (over 2000 America have up sign on to Global Compact, world wide 9000 businesses
1 posted on 04/17/2010 10:17:59 AM PDT by day21221
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To: day21221

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Suicide pact.


2 posted on 04/17/2010 10:18:31 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: day21221

Remember, businesses collect taxes and YOU pay it.


3 posted on 04/17/2010 10:19:19 AM PDT by GeronL (Entitlement Zombies will become real zombies when the money runs out)
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To: day21221

So Obama has the support of about 0.1% of businesses! Full speed ahead!


4 posted on 04/17/2010 10:19:47 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

Oh is that the GE that paid no US taxes???


5 posted on 04/17/2010 10:21:11 AM PDT by 54skylark
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To: day21221; 4horses+amule; Nervous Tick; Amagi; Beowulf; Tunehead54; Clive; Fractal Trader; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

6 posted on 04/17/2010 10:26:42 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: day21221

...over 2000 America have up sign on to Global Compact, world wide 9000 businesses...

Names please? Boycotts pending.


7 posted on 04/17/2010 10:30:14 AM PDT by Postman
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To: 54skylark

And owns the noted propaganda rag nbc.


8 posted on 04/17/2010 10:36:46 AM PDT by mapmaker77
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To: GeronL

I think one of the biggest misconceptions amongst the American public is that a company pays it’s taxes. The truth is that you...the consumer that buys or uses services from this company...are paying their taxes. If the gov’t raises taxes on this company....it falls to you the consumer to pay them. The same is true for a taxi company, a chicken-wing company, a barber shop, and even a bait & tackle shop. The minute you raise taxes on them...it’s up to you the consumer to help fix the problem.

The public knowledge over how businesses run or how taxes really work...is something that we don’t teach in high school or college.


9 posted on 04/17/2010 10:45:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 54skylark
I posted this yesterday but for anyone who might have missed it. Please pay attention to GE being the first to to issue an Islamic bond.

NBC part of the bailed out GE, MSNBC. They are in bed with Obama's agenda to bring muslims and sharia law into our business and finance.

Jeff Immelt GE CEO is a Obama adviser on how to fix our economy. He stays close to obama's free spending bailouts. GE was down to nothing, under $3.00 a share, almost bankrupt, now in the $18.00 range after the bailout.

Also GE is Healthyimagination (Daschle old people should accept pain on board)registry for our most private health records for all of the feds to see and begin rationing. I was at the whitehouse.gov the other day and healthimagination had a banner advertisement on a government website. When was the first time you ever saw a ad on a goivernment website?

Obama, on the other hand, doesn’t share the views of his European allies and has, instead, embarked upon a course of embracing the Muslim peoples of the World and to the shock of all has overturned the Bush era ban on the radical Swiss born Muslim Cleric Tariq Ramadan from entering the United States, last year ordered the US government bailed out General Electric Capital Corporation to became the first Western multinational to issue an Islamic bond, and this past week commanded that all of his governments security documents eliminate the words “Islamic extremism” and “jihad”. http://bit.ly/9p96ra

Banned Under Bush, Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan Returns to US http://huff.to/9rTJZi

General Electric Gets a $140B Bailout - What's the Point of AAA? http://bit.ly/9efaDA

Obama bans terms `Islam` and `jihad` from U.S. security document http://bit.ly/dk6KRk

Muslims disconnected from retail banking. General Electric Capital Corporation to became the first Western multinational to issue an Islamic bond http://bit.ly/axQNac

10 posted on 04/17/2010 11:00:11 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Postman

Just look at all the bailed out companies and you probably have your list.


11 posted on 04/17/2010 11:02:31 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: day21221

Matthew Daly is “Johnny one-note” interviewing “Lurch” Kerry:

AP Interview: Kerry: Energy bill more about jobs

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/12/4012089-ap-interview-kerry-energy-bill-more-about-jobs

More of the BIG LIE! Brought to you by the Leftie’s Propaganda Mahine (AP).


12 posted on 04/17/2010 11:17:21 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: day21221

They have a gun to their heads from the Obama administration. Next up is forced unionization of their shops.


13 posted on 04/17/2010 11:34:26 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: GeronL

GeronL wrote: Remember, businesses collect taxes and YOU pay it.

That cannot be said enough!!!


14 posted on 04/17/2010 11:39:18 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Thunder90

Enforcing social agenda through control of health funding, supporting labor agenda through stimulus/government contracts, and this will go on and on.


15 posted on 04/17/2010 11:41:10 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Touch Not the Cat

Eggggsactly right !!


16 posted on 04/17/2010 12:29:19 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: day21221

Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant.


17 posted on 04/17/2010 12:30:04 PM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: RoadTest

As I like to say, Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is a plant growth stimulant, at anything up to many times current levels. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, of 3rd World peoples depend on the crop yields that current CO2 levels allow. If you are for reducing CO2 levels, you are for starvation and misery for millions.


18 posted on 04/17/2010 7:08:44 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: FreedomPoster

“If you are for reducing CO2 levels, you are for starvation and misery for millions.”

They are -the Gore Bots and the O Bots all want to reduce the earth’s population.


19 posted on 04/18/2010 4:59:15 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: RoadTest

new-revelations-on-climategate
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4162958/new-revelations-on-climategate


20 posted on 04/23/2010 6:58:10 AM PDT by day21221
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