|
|
May 18, 2013
|
|
|
|
 Obama Makes Nice with Business BigwigsPosted on Dec 16, 2010
Bill Clinton and now big business—all in a week’s work for President Obama in his ambitious push to improve relations with parties with whom he’d at least appeared to be at odds since he took office. On Wednesday, the president met for a lengthy huddle with a big group of executives from various market sectors to hold out a gilded olive branch and discuss the still-dismal state of the economy and how to improve the job market. —KA
Advertisement TAGS:
|
Arctic Tundra ‘Will Turn to Forest’
Email 
Print
Share
Email to a friend
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
Tags|Bazaar|Podcast|About Us|Contact Us|User Agreement|Privacy Policy|FAQ: Comments and Moderation | Google+
© 2013 Truthdig, LLC. All rights reserved.
By Big B, December 16, 2010 at 4:27 pm Link to this comment
You could not have hit it any harder blueworld, Barry has surrounded himself with the same kind of corporate boot lickers that whispered in W’s ear for 8 years.
Don’t fret fellow liberals, for Barry is just working on a better deal with Big Business. This time, after they are done but slamming him, he thinks he can convince them to let him buy them dinner, give them a ride home, buy their kids something nice for christmas, and then go off into the corner and just die. All this, and no reach-around. What a deal.
Report thisBy blueworld, December 16, 2010 at 1:13 pm Link to this comment
Yes, Tiny Tim has a lot of nerve even pretending to criticize Scrooge. He stuffs his staff with Wall St. sycophants & butt kissers. He promotes legislation that enriches them further every week. No prosecutions anywhere for any of the financial fraud that has driven this country to its knees. And they’re affronted because he yaps about their pay? He’s said a lot worse a lot more frequently about sanctimonious liberals & his base. I can’t recall his meeting with any of them including the economists who have the nerve to criticize his so-called compromises. Is it too late for us to mail industrial strength chapstick & knee pads to the WH for Xmas? God bless us, everyone.
Report thisBy JJW, December 16, 2010 at 10:34 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
The article doesn’t disclose the list of 20 to-do corporation that attended. However we do know that GE paid no income tax in 2009 and Google only pays 2.6 percent rate as they use off shore tax haven.
So it seems a large part of the problem is that these global corporations and their CEOs are parasites that contribute little to nothing.
Since the engine of employment are small businesses, Obama meeting with these arogant CEOs and banksters will do no good.
Report thisBy Michael, December 16, 2010 at 9:50 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
How about a meeting with labor?
Report thisBy aacme88, December 16, 2010 at 7:38 am Link to this comment
Thare is one group with whom he needs to improve relations worse than any other, but it may be too late. The only thing that would win back the people who actually voted for him, and might be expected to again, would be a complete policy reversal, almost a total repudiation of his presidency thus far. It looks like that’s not going to happen, so he’s making friends where he can.
Report this