Posted on 04/25/2015 7:37:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal warned "corporate America" Saturday that it needed to "be careful" and not ally itself with liberals on cultural issues. Jindal, a 2016 Republican presidential hopeful, issued the warning in a speech at a multi-candidate event in West Des Moines, Iowa.
While many at the event argued that the Christian faith was being antagonized from both the cultural left and government entities, Jindal added a third entity that is usually seen as being on the side of conservatives, big business. He cited the recent controversies in Indiana and other states over adoption of religious freedom bills liberals opposed as discriminatory against homosexuals, in which some business leaders also opposed the law.
"We saw something very unusual in Indiana. We saw corporate America team up with the radical left to come after our religious liberty rights. Corporate American needs to be careful. The same radical left that doesn't want us to have religious liberty rights doesn't want us to have economic liberty rights," Jindal said. "They want to tax and regulate these companies out of existence. They think profit is a dirty word," he added.
The chief executive officers of nine companies that employee large numbers of Indiana residents wrote the state's Republican governor, Mike Pence, in March stating they were, "deeply concerned about the impact (the law) is having on our employees and on the reputation of our state." The signers included the heads of Eli Lilly and Co., Anthem and Indiana University Health.
Apple CEO Tim Cook last month called on Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson to veto a similar bill in his state.
Jindal boasted that his state had the same kind of laws that provoked the Indiana controversy and twice said that he will not be "bullied" by corporate America. It was a big applause line for the audience.
It resonated with Des Moines resident Tim Overlin. "I am surprised more people haven't talked about it," he said. "People are bowing down to pressure from a vocal minority."
I already have a fairly long and growing boycott list.
I will not give my money to oufits that use that money to fund the depravity of the left.
It’s bad enough that my government is using money they take involuntarily out of my paychecks against me, I will not voluntarily support leftists.
I can tell you that I will never buy another Nabisco product after their commercial called a gay couple with children wholesome.
I’m getting up in life, I have some disposable money, I don’t live paycheck to paycheck and I spend it wisely according to my religious and philosophical and political beliefs. I don’t give people who oppose everything I have believed and lived any of my money.
I am really liking Jindahl so far. That is a pretty gutsy thing to say in this environment.
I agree, there is a reason that there are very few small businesses left, they bought their political buddies to make laws under the guise of safety, environment...that hurt everyone but they knew they could stand the hit and when Mom and Pop went out of business they’d get more customers.
Jindal will fold when the NFL says they will not hold another Super Bowl in New Orleans.
How do you ever get past the fear that you might have forgotten to add someone to this list?
They don’t care about the other sins in Sin City, but the sin of being conservative is unforgivable?
Don’t worry about it too much, but when something comes across the radar, they get added.
Real sacrifice sometimes, too.
I like Ben and Jerries ice cream.
The irony is that approaching this from a one dimensional point of view may end up with the moral equivalent of the last two presidential election seasons. The less than perfect went down in a circular firing squad, leaving the mediocre who proceeded to lose it to the virulently anti.
There may be a time when we wish the worst thing that was standing on the American stage was a bakery calling homosexual families wholesome.
Walmart is a troublesome case in point. They wilted on a religious freedom issue, yet in how they carry out their business they might still be one of the more Christian friendly places in this land.
Just folding to political correctness generally does not get anyone on my list. They have to be actively supporting something egregious.
Yes! Why can’t more Republican candidates say that?
A forlorn hope - corporations in many cases ARE the biggest leftists.
I’ve never tasted it. They started off lefties so I just never gave them any business.
Yep. And it is a very, very small minority. Amazing to me how loud a voice they project. Of course, they get lots of help from the libs.
I think we should give them no protection from the Left. I’m done with getting stabbed in the back on immigration and cultural issues. Go for protecting small business and let the left eat their pals the corporations, alive. Then we can start over on a nicer note.
Ben and Jerry are still lefties, but they don’t just talk the talk, they walk the walk when it comes to their leftie positions on things like global warming. IMO they are more like wacko environmentalists who like the benefits of capitalism. For example, one of their ads outlines the struggles of the cocoa farmers in, I think South America, so they will only buy their cocoa from them. Supposed to make you feel good about buying a pint of chocolate ice cream for $8, even though it is damn good.
The left are a fraud which claims to stand up for small business, when they will do about nothing. The big corporations act for a monopoly while being picked as favorites by the politicians.
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