Posted on 03/02/2011 6:35:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama has always believed that America succeeds when business succeeds. He has a deep, abiding commitment to doing what is necessary to strengthen our economy and make America more competitive. That is why, having spent decades in government and business myself, I was amazed to see the critical comments George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M, made in the Financial Times this week, when he dubbed the president as anti-business.
As a government our responsibility is to lay the foundations for the private sector to thrive; indeed, that is at the heart of our strategy for growth. We are reforming Americas schools so that businesses can hire the worlds most skilled and talented workers with solutions driven not from Washington, but from across the country. We are training 100,000 new maths and science teachers. And we are both making college more affordable and revitalising our community college system, so that America continues to not only have the best universities in the world, but also the highest college graduation rates.
Our administration is also upgrading our transportation and communication networks so businesses can move goods and information more quickly and cheaply. And we are redoubling our commitment to the research and innovation that is central to our long-term prosperity, including a proposal to enhance and permanently extend the research and development tax credit for businesses. We have also proposed reforms to address the very immigration problem Mr Buckley described. The president has said clearly that he does not believe in a system that forces students on a visa to leave the country after they earn an advanced degree, which means we train our competition.
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William Daley : Why Obama is a pro-business president
I fully agree. He is pro business.
He is so pro business he wants his government to control the banking industry, auto industry for his union cronies, insurance, health care, etc etc.
He wants his government to control the American Economy to take us into the next generation of 5 year plans.
I imagine we will be seeing a similar argument that he is a pro life pro military President as well. That mag cover with Ronald Reagan is along the same lines as this as well.
Nevil Chamberlain : Why Hitler is a pro-Jewish fuhrer
Ex-GE boss Welch, 3M CEO dismiss Obama outreach
Especially George Buckley.
“Why up is down, and black is white”.
Daley’s lips are moving.....=.=
Then again, it depends on the business, doesn't it...
The FT wants you to register to read this crap. As if I’s register with any online publication that posted drivel from a crook like Daley.
Government pronouncements from George Orwell's 1984.
“Obama is a probusiness president.”
Government pronouncement from the Obama administration.
Can anyone doubt we are truly living under an Orwellian regime?
Apparently they need to train some english teachers as well.
Robin Hood retrieved from the government (i.e. nobles) what had been stolen from the productive members of society. Obama is no Robin Hood.
As for being pro-business, Obama is pro those business which help him politically. Think Goldman Sachs, General Electric, General Motors and Chrysler.
He’s pro-business if your business is big government and socialism.
Anyone who believes Daley was amazed a major CEO would call Obama ‘anti-business’ will believe, well, the rest of his article, I guess.
Apparently they need to train some english teachers as well.
"Maths" is a Britishism. Either Daley wrote it that way to keep the FT editors happy, or their spell checkers marked "math" as a sloppy colonial error which they corrected.
I suspect he's British, and that is proper English in England. Either that, or he's just the usual liberal idiot who doesn't know better.
Provided your business is Marxism, sure.
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