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Obama taps Boeing, Xerox chiefs to lead export body
Yahoo News (Reuters) ^ | March 11, 2010 | Alister Bull

Posted on 03/11/2010 3:45:49 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, anxious to spur growth and tackle unemployment, will name two top executives from Boeing and Xerox on Thursday to spearhead his drive to boost U.S. exports, the White House said.

Obama, who pledged in his State of the Union address to double U.S. exports over five years to support 2 million jobs, will make the announcement in Washington when he speaks to the Export-Import Bank's annual conference on his trade strategy.

A White House official said Obama would name Boeing Co president and chief executive Jim McNerney and Xerox Co chief executive Ursula Burns to lead the President's Export Council.

Founded in 1973 by former President Richard Nixon, the council is a key forum for the private sector to communicate its trade views to the U.S. administration.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: exports; mercantilism; obama; protectionism; trade

1 posted on 03/11/2010 3:45:50 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Great... a plane company that had to have the gooberment steal contracts for them and a company that was so stupid and so blind that they gave bill gates the PC... we are doomed.

LLS

2 posted on 03/11/2010 4:27:50 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Wolverine)
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Resident Obama "...will name two top executives from Boeing and Xerox on Thursday to spearhead his drive to boost U.S. exports".

Can this be true?

Has he finally run out of tax dodgers, pedophiles, militant queers, US hating lesbos, card carrying commies, bumbling Marxist intellectuals, muslim terrorists, black racists and other miscreants and misfits?

How else to explain this turn to normal people with some actual experience or expertise to staff one of his enterprises?
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3 posted on 03/11/2010 4:37:56 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." - Steinbeck)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Don’t they already have jobs?


4 posted on 03/11/2010 5:17:43 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Cheap_Hessian
WTF? Xerox?!? A company whose best days were in the 1960's and whose stock is now trading at $9.85. That Co is a friggen DINOSAUR.

And Boeing's best days are behind them too. Not as bad as Xerox but heading the same way. Annnnd, how about THIS from Boeing's website...

Global Corporate Citizenship
'We have one simple objective at Boeing: to make the world a better place.'
They can take their 'Global Corporate Citizenship' and shove it up a 747.
5 posted on 03/11/2010 5:50:00 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A. Einstein])
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Oh please Barry, don’t campaign here. Everywhere you do that you fail and drag down anyone involved with you.


6 posted on 03/11/2010 5:50:29 AM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messiah. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: Condor51

“And Boeing’s best days are behind them too.”

You’re high. Boeing is doing incredible projects these days.


7 posted on 03/11/2010 9:37:17 AM PST by CodeToad
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*** You’re high. Boeing is doing incredible projects these days. ***

Yeah I'm so high that I hallucinated reading about Boeing recently laying off thousands.

And 'doing incredible projects' and being 1/2 of what you once were means nothing. Plus, when the DoD buys stinking euro-weenie military planes over the 'American' Boeing, that's a problem.

8 posted on 03/11/2010 9:49:34 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A. Einstein])
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“when the DoD buys stinking euro-weenie military planes over the ‘American’ Boeing, that’s a problem. “

Yeah, a problem for the DoD. It was less a reflection on Boeing.

“being 1/2 of what you once were “

You think so? You don’t know Boeing.

Seems you have a problem with Boeing. So, what got you fired from Boeing?


9 posted on 03/11/2010 9:57:44 AM PST by CodeToad
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