Posted on 07/11/2011 5:15:52 PM PDT by Nachum
Protestors chanting "Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Cronyism has got to go!" marched during the lunch hour today in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Washington, D.C. headquarters. The marchers were protesting the appearance of General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt in the chamber's day-long conference on job creation, Jobs for America Summit. Immelt, who is chairman of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, was the event's keynoter. “We think it’s ludicrous and outrageous that Jeff Immelt should be speaking at a job summit when he is the leading corporate job killer in America,”
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Why the HELL would the Chamber invite Hussein cultist IMMELT to speak? He is the ANTITHESIS of free enterprise and capitalism.
Yeah, those hey-hey ho-ho chants are what got the British to leave the Colonies after October 19, 1781...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also is one of the biggest supporters of illegal aliens. If you think the Chamber of Commerce is working in the best interests of our country, you need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Cronyisms’ biggest crony
Jeffery Immelt, CEO of General Electric (GE) since 2001, parent company of NBC.
In 2009, GE’s number of U.S. employees dropped 18,000, GE has reduced the number of U.S. employees by 31,000 since Immelt signed on.
Head of President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. This position was created by Executive Order, meaning, nobody but Obama had any say in this.
Leader in the push for Cap and Trade, where businesses are fined for producing Carbon emissions and paid for reducing them.
Delivered software and oil supplies to Iran until 2008
Gave orders to NBC news reporters to not say anything negative about Obama during election year.
Partnering with China to build high speed rail in the U.S.
Partnering with China to build commercial airliners
GE was the source behind the outlawing of incandescent light bulbs. We now get our Mercury filled bulbs from China.
Sold GE’s precious metals mine to China, America’s only precious metals mine, and China promptly closed it. Now China is the major supplier of precious metals necessary for windmills, efficient electric motors, magnets, and solar.
Enron’s former CEO Ken Lay was pushing the Clinton and Bush White Houses to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
When Enron collapsed, AES and General Electric absorbed Enron’s assets.
Ken Lay had set up a plan to build coal fired energy plants in third world counties, not affected by the Kyoto Protocol.
The Kyoto Protocol would have closed the coal fired power plants in the U.S., increasing the cost of natural gas and decreasing the U.S.’s dependency on coal, making it cheaper for their operations in Asia, South America and Africa.
In 2010, GE earned $14.2 billion in international profits, $5.1 billion in the U.S., they paid no taxes.
Immelt’s compensation doubled to $15.2 million.
April 1, 2011 a report comes out that Obama gave GE $36 million to help out GE’s early retirements.
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