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William Daley : Why Obama is a pro-business president
Financial Times ^ | 03/02/2011 | William Daley

Posted on 03/02/2011 6:35:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind

President Barack Obama has always believed that America succeeds when business succeeds. He has a deep, abiding commitment to doing what is necessary to strengthen our economy and make America more competitive. That is why, having spent decades in government and business myself, I was amazed to see the critical comments George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M, made in the Financial Times this week, when he dubbed the president as “anti-business”.

As a government our responsibility is to lay the foundations for the private sector to thrive; indeed, that is at the heart of our strategy for growth. We are reforming America’s schools so that businesses can hire the world’s most skilled and talented workers – with solutions driven not from Washington, but from across the country. We are training 100,000 new maths and science teachers. And we are both making college more affordable and revitalising our community college system, so that America continues to not only have the best universities in the world, but also the highest college graduation rates.

Our administration is also upgrading our transportation and communication networks so businesses can move goods and information more quickly and cheaply. And we are redoubling our commitment to the research and innovation that is central to our long-term prosperity, including a proposal to enhance and permanently extend the research and development tax credit for businesses. We have also proposed reforms to address the very immigration problem Mr Buckley described. The president has said clearly that he does not believe in a system that forces students on a visa to leave the country after they earn an advanced degree, which means we train our competition.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; probusiness; stupidpeople; thechicagoway; triangulation; williamdaley
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1 posted on 03/02/2011 6:36:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
...looks at calender.

Damn, is it April 1st already?

2 posted on 03/02/2011 6:36:52 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama is a pro-business president????

LOL...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 03/02/2011 6:37:30 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama has always believed that America succeeds when business George Soros succeeds.

Fixed it.

4 posted on 03/02/2011 6:38:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: SeekAndFind

I do not eve want a “pro-business” President. I want a pro-free market President. Big difference. Don’t want A president who favors and used government power to support any entity or segment of society.
That said it is absolutely silly to say that Obama is pro-business. Delusional.


5 posted on 03/02/2011 6:39:12 AM PST by all the best
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To: justlurking

What do you expect from a Chicago crook, now chief of shit thrower.


6 posted on 03/02/2011 6:40:18 AM PST by boomop1
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To: SeekAndFind

You’re sh!tt!ing me right?


7 posted on 03/02/2011 6:41:49 AM PST by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: boomop1

omit “of”.


8 posted on 03/02/2011 6:42:11 AM PST by boomop1
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To: SeekAndFind

“We are training 100,000 new ‘maths’ and science teachers.”

Maybe they should train a few more English teachers as well.


9 posted on 03/02/2011 6:42:11 AM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: SeekAndFind

Obummer is “pro-business” only if Daley defines a business as a State Owned Enterprise.


10 posted on 03/02/2011 6:42:30 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bill Daily -- smarter than William Daley.

11 posted on 03/02/2011 6:43:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes! Who you going to believe? Him or your Lying Eyes?


12 posted on 03/02/2011 6:43:08 AM PST by Mr. K (Job #1 is to DEFUND THE LEFT~!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

A president beholden to unions can never be pro business.


13 posted on 03/02/2011 6:43:41 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why............because he bought the Union Vote?


14 posted on 03/02/2011 6:44:19 AM PST by not2worry (WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND)
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To: SeekAndFind

Forget it Daley. No use trying. Obama is a pig in a poke.


15 posted on 03/02/2011 6:44:34 AM PST by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

What planet is this guy on?


16 posted on 03/02/2011 6:45:42 AM PST by no_go_lie
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What is this guy smoking?


17 posted on 03/02/2011 6:45:42 AM PST by MrInvisible
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To: SeekAndFind

What planet is this guy on?


18 posted on 03/02/2011 6:45:49 AM PST by no_go_lie
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To: SeekAndFind

Taxpayer bailouts of failed businesses is “pro-business”, according to Obama sycophants.


19 posted on 03/02/2011 6:45:55 AM PST by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: crusadersoldier
I believe that the Financial Times uses British Standard English (BSE). In BSE, “maths” is an accepted colloquialism for “mathematics.”
20 posted on 03/02/2011 6:46:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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