Posted on 12/15/2010 7:04:31 PM PST by La Lydia
President Obama on Wednesday sat down with chief executives from major companies such as Boeing, Comcast, General Electric and Google for a lengthy "working meeting" to urge them to do more hiring to bring down unemployment and work with him to strengthen the economic recovery.
"I am looking forward to getting good ideas from them, but I am definitely going to talk to them about how we can get more hiring out there," Obama told reporters as he walked across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to attend the meeting at Blair House.
The meeting was expected to last about four hours and is part of a renewed push by the Obama administration to dispel criticism that it is anti-business. That initiative has included business-friendly moves in recent weeks, such as completing a trade pact with South Korea and making a deal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and include other tax breaks helpful to U.S. companies...
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“These men had to explain to him how capitalism works....”
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Total waste of time. Beurocrats hire whether it is justified or not. After all government is not in the business to make money — it’s in the business to spend ill-begotten money from the upper scale and appear altruistic to those on the lower end of the scale.
I was watching Sarah Palin’s Alaska last night. She and her family spent a day on a family’s commercial fishing boat gutting and stunning halibut. I’m sure no one has to explain to her what a small business needs in order to be healthy enough to hire people.
She talked about the “slime line” (a line of employees unloaded the ice packed fish from the hold and preparing them for processing) and how most Alaskan teens spent time on one. It looks like back breaking work. I’ll never look at a halibut the same way.
I kept imagining Obama on a “slime line”, and thinking that was what the man needed. It would have done him worlds of good, to see how hard small businessmen have to work to make a few dollars. Obama’s problem is he’s still in the “magic money” mode along with so many other immature people. He thinks, money just comes to you, out of thin air, because somebody decreed it.
Those who voted for him and those who keep him in office are despicable.
If they hired Obama it would be the first job he ever had.
This administration has thrown Trillions around. I don’t expect them/he/it to stop.
O has funneled billions of dollars to these companies.
My guess is that he was simply adding to their bottom line once again. They’ll stand up and praise him in return.
Please. Any top CEO who would lower himself by attending this crap session was probably gushing over Oh-damn-ya. None of them would have lectured him.
“Obama Meets with CEOs to Urge More Hiring”
Now isn’t that special! Big evil corporations should hire gratuitous workers because the President requests them too! Not because it makes sense or does not make sense from a profit/loss perspective, but because the President who has been beating up evil giant corporations from his bully pulpit requests additional hiring.
In my opinion, no one in their right mind would invest in economic growth as long as Marxists are in charge of the economy.
After all, the Obammunists view big evil corporations simply as a flock of golden geese that lay golden eggs for the sole purpose of being redistributed by the government to others who are unable to lay their own golden eggs. Unfortunately, the Obammunists have eviserated the geese trying to reach those last hard-to-reach eggs for redistribution, and now they’re whining for the pile of dead geese laying at their feet to get up and lay some more.
O’Bozo has no idea that a business cannot just hire people and find busywork for them like the federal government does.
He thinks a profit is a guy named Muhammad with a 9 year old concubine.
Every last one of them.
These CEO's are his lapdogs, his Chamber of Commerce credentialed cheerleaders. They will immediately come out as "great leaders of American business" and hail our benevolent President Trainwreck in the press.
They are all despicable pukes, especially that 3M reject, Boeing's joke of a CEO, McNerny.
Again! He meets with the wrong CEOs. Every one of these socalled Captians of Capitalism adore socialism. He needs to meet with the true Job Creators. Our Small business Men and Women.
Don’t worry, Hilary is hiring.
nobama loathes America...free and prosperous. The boy-man is a perfect loser.
Business should be organizing to “bury” Bambi, not help him.
Obama’s losing the support of his yuppies and dinks.
DING DING DING !!!
Prize winner right here ! You can check the stimulus $$ and see that ‘yesindeediedavid’ that the large corps did pocket BILLIONS....
So now it’s time for “The Squeeze”, or you’ll talk to my friend Vinny
Every last one of them.
I'm for public stoning, but if hanging will get rid of em, then I'm all for it.
ALL OF EM!
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