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3M Chief Warns Obama Over Business Regulation
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd9b4100-429b-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1FDHpURBO ^ | February 27 2011 | Hal Weitzman

Posted on 02/27/2011 6:01:50 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather

By Hal Weitzman in Chicago

Published: February 27 2011 19:27 | Last updated: February 27 2011 19:27

The head of one of the US’s biggest industrial groups has launched a scathing attack on Barack Obama’s attempts to repair relations with companies, dubbing him “anti-business”.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3m; bhoeconomy; bhofascism; democrats; economy; obama; obamatruthfile; regulation; socialistdemocrats; warns
Hope and Change.
1 posted on 02/27/2011 6:01:57 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“Anti-Business” is praise to lord-0, the wun.


2 posted on 02/27/2011 6:03:37 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

More businesses need to speak out like this instead trying to figure out end-runs and wimpy get-along plans.


3 posted on 02/27/2011 6:05:24 PM PST by swatbuznik
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To: sheikdetailfeather

3M obviously is obviously on the wrong side of “crony capitalism”.

Do they compete with GE in several areas?


4 posted on 02/27/2011 6:06:05 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: swatbuznik

He better get his finances in order at the company and home...cause the IRS,EPA,OSHA,ETc are coming on Monday.


5 posted on 02/27/2011 6:06:49 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: sheikdetailfeather

The crew approves.
6 posted on 02/27/2011 6:09:16 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Bad report card for bo!


7 posted on 02/27/2011 6:10:03 PM PST by DCmarcher-976453 (SARAH PALIN 2012)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Reminiscent of the German industrialists who thought they were pulling Hitler’s strings.


8 posted on 02/27/2011 6:31:05 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: sheikdetailfeather
ALLHESGOT
9 posted on 02/27/2011 7:05:24 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

They financed him in 2008.

And they continue to finance crazy democrats who implemented his agenda and who still pursue destructive racist/socialist policies.

I have a hard time feeling empathy for anyone who voted for him, contributed money to him, or silently accepted the cover-up of his lies and known socialist agenda.

If they realize their mistake let them put their money and influence to work to oust him. No more straddling the fence.


10 posted on 02/27/2011 7:06:33 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
[My emphasis in bold in the list below.]

The following are Fortune 500s that filed briefs in favor of "affirmative action" in the Michigan "Grutter v. Bollinger" (Michigan University) case.

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf

3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/gru_gm.html

11 posted on 02/27/2011 7:24:44 PM PST by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Over the last couple of decades or so, we Americans have witnessed the largest shift in wealth in world history.

The American middle class and their standard of living is being dismantled.

Politicians and multi-national corporations have set up operations primarily in China/India in an effort to facilitate a huge new consumer class five times the size of the American consumer market combined.

This is all by design. It's all about money and power.

To hell with America. This folks would be a national security issue.

Our own government leaders, financial / corp elites have sold out the country of their birth...all for the bottom line. Sad really.

12 posted on 02/27/2011 7:52:23 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Awful. I have used 3M products since I was a kid. Now Obama is running them off. We gotta get him the Hell out!


13 posted on 02/27/2011 7:55:09 PM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

All you execs and Wall Streeters, lawyers, docs et al who gave $$$ to the SOB . .welcome to the club of critics.

Better late than never I guess


14 posted on 02/27/2011 9:06:05 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Ball of Confusion: That's what the world is today . . Hey Hey")
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To: servantboy777

Our own government leaders, financial / corp elites have sold out the country of their birth...all for the bottom line. Sad really.

Yep. And the coming US politicians and execs are universally misguided. The fact is that nations, like States, are natural and appropriate entities for competition and political autonomy. Furthermore the US, in its traditional status could prosper, e.g.energy, agriculture, well above the tragedy of a miserably overpopulating world.

In effect the globalists, e.g. the CFR, are explicitly screwing us.

Johnny Suntrade

15 posted on 02/27/2011 9:08:59 PM PST by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Oldexpat

Uh... yeah... I had forgotten about that. Geez.


16 posted on 02/27/2011 10:23:58 PM PST by swatbuznik
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Mr Buckley, who has run the diversified manufacturer since 2005, said: “There is a sense among companies that this is a difficult place to do business. It is about regulation, taxation, seemingly anti-business policies in Washington, attitudes towards science.”

This should be quite encouraging for Obama who has worked feverishly since Day One to level the global playing field by destroying American prosperity.

17 posted on 02/27/2011 10:50:32 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: sheikdetailfeather

3M does not make idle threats. 30 years ago they told MN politicians the same thing. They didn’t listen. 30 years of solid growth in 3M took place in other states.


18 posted on 02/28/2011 9:28:33 AM PST by DManA
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To: sheikdetailfeather
The Failed Obama Administration© is angry now!
19 posted on 02/28/2011 10:34:41 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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