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...
Cronyisms’ biggest crony
Jeffery Immelt, CEO of General Electric (GE) since 2001, parent company of NBC.
In 2009, GEs 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 GEs precious metals mine to China, Americas 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.
Enrons 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 Enrons 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.
Immelts compensation doubled to $15.2 million.
April 1, 2011 a report comes out that Obama gave GE $36 million to help out GEs early retirements.