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Obama asks businesses to get behind climate bill (did he ask or insist?)
ABC News ^ | 4-16-10 | Erica Werner

Posted on 04/16/2010 8:23:30 PM PDT by STARWISE

Obama urges business heads to push Congress in support of climate and energy bill

*snip*

Obama made the plug during a meeting Friday with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which includes the heads of General Electric, Caterpillar and Oracle, along with labor leaders and economists.

He told the group the climate bill — which would cap global warming emissions — is good for business and that members of Congress need to hear that.

"Individual members of Congress may be worried about the implications, at least short term," of voting for the legislation, and hearing from businesses would be reassuring, Obama said. The more business can be out front" the better, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capandtax; carbontrade; catapillar; climategate; dearleaderobama; democrat; democrats; ge; globalwarminghoax; impeachobama; obama; obamadearleader; pressurecongress; youwillobey
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To: maine-iac7

Zero will do more damage to the financial heart of the U.S. than Bin Laden could in his wildest dreams.


21 posted on 04/16/2010 9:27:09 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: STARWISE

I’m not into boycotts but the businesses who go along with this thievery need to become part of a Mother of All Boycotts list. They can either side with their customers or they can side with the false “messiah”. The choice is theirs.


22 posted on 04/16/2010 9:31:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
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To: STARWISE

The Marxist Kenyan is insane and has forgot what country he is in.


23 posted on 04/16/2010 9:33:09 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: STARWISE

Is there a business that isn’t “green?” I look for labels that don’t promote how green the product and company are. It’s all so damned fake.


24 posted on 04/16/2010 9:34:31 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: freekitty
What I don’t understand except he lies is why businesses that Obama wants to ruin would get behind this POS at all.

Huh?

25 posted on 04/16/2010 9:45:28 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: ExTexasRedhead

awesome :)


26 posted on 04/16/2010 9:58:08 PM PDT by funfan
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To: STARWISE

It’s sad we have a President that hates our country.


27 posted on 04/16/2010 10:09:58 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I’m not into boycotts but the businesses who go along with this thievery need to become part of a Mother of All Boycotts list. They can either side with their customers or they can side with the false “messiah”. The choice is theirs.

I agree with your statement, although I am boycotting GE whenever I can these days. The problem with GE is that they could care less right now about customers. They are looking to the government for its future revenue. Pleasing the government is easier than understanding and then pleasing the mass market.

28 posted on 04/16/2010 10:14:29 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: STARWISE

I’m sure he asked...in the same way Frank Nitti asked speakeasy owners to buy Al Capone’s rotgut hooch.

“It’s not s’posed to be good...it’s supposed to be BOUGHT!”


29 posted on 04/16/2010 11:57:02 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: STARWISE

What change? I haven’t got any left once my rent and bills are paid. I try and survive on $74 per month for groceries and other necessites and that is extremely difficult. What was worse was asking the management company of this less than 400 sq ft room to fix my fridge starting last July. They ignored me and kept ignoring me so two weeks ago my fridge became all freezer ruining all the food in the fridge and freezing my insulin. I was NOT impressed!


30 posted on 04/17/2010 1:18:08 AM PDT by Chief Engineer
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To: EDINVA
It’s all so damned fake.

It sure drives up product prices, and that's what the big players want.

31 posted on 04/17/2010 1:41:59 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: STARWISE

Yes, we need to defeat these bastards.


32 posted on 04/17/2010 4:17:30 AM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Army Air Corps; 4horses+amule; Nervous Tick; Amagi; Beowulf; Tunehead54; Clive; Fractal Trader; ...
General Electric for sure is one business behind it as they have uniquely positioned themselves to make a financial killing. Most every other business and certainly the economy in general will be severely wounded.

This is based on scientific insanity. It only makes sense if you want to intentionally do great harm the nation.

Thanx for the ping, Army Air Corps !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

33 posted on 04/17/2010 4:30:17 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: STARWISE

>>>He told the group the climate bill . . . is good for business . . .

Well, I’m really glad to have that assurance from someone so obviously business-savvy as the Community Agitator in Chief.


34 posted on 04/17/2010 4:45:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: STARWISE

Leave the climate alone, idiot. You’re not God, thankfully, though you like to playact that you are.


35 posted on 04/17/2010 5:24:16 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: STARWISE
"Don't think we're not keeping score, brother."

He's a two-bit skinny little thug...NOT a President.

36 posted on 04/17/2010 8:08:34 AM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: STARWISE
Why would business waste its time getting behind an economy destroying Communist plot?
37 posted on 04/17/2010 9:01:23 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: April Lexington

Maybe some payback could befall them.

“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220435/posts

More and more, I think there’s an understood “OR ELSE”
in their ‘suggestions.’


38 posted on 04/17/2010 9:47:13 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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