Posted on 01/21/2011 12:09:43 PM PST by Nachum
SCHENECTADY, New York (AFP) – President Barack Obama claimed the role of champion of US businesses Friday, vowing to slip the economy into "overdrive" and enlisting corporate America in his crusade to create jobs.
Obama named General Electric CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt to head a new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in his latest conciliatory gesture to the business sector following a Republican mid-term election rout.
"The past two years were about pulling our economy back from the brink," Obama said after touring a GE plant in upstate New York, which manufactures hardware for solar, steam and wind power energy industries.
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Down the hill
Is there an overdrive option when going in reverse?
He's going to agree to the repeal of Obamacare??? Best thing you could do for the economy right now.
if immelt runs this show the way he runs GE, my main job will be to learn chinese
Overdrive? Just get the damn thing out of reverse!!
Idiot.
Well there goes that GE plant. The guy shows up and within six months the doors are closed.
Well since GE is just a de-facto branch of the federal government anyway I fail to see how any of this is going to help the common man.
Pulling our economy back from the brink with Stimulus while backing himself toward another drink with crushing deficits and Fedzilla regulations.
“Obama vows to shift economy into overdrive”
...By bringing on Immelt on board, a guy who has destroyed tens of thousands of jobs at GE...:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2661118/posts
Obama vows to shift economy into overdrive.......too bad the hubs aren’t locked................
Hyperinflation is NOT overdrive, Barack.
That’s classic!
Right. And I bet he “will not rest”.......
Wonderful. We’re still in the ditch, the towtruck just arrived and hasn’t even had a chance to hook on, and now he’s gonna burn up the transmission too.
Someone give him a Slurpee and strap him in his booster seat in the back and tell him we don’t want to hear any more from him.
In Georgia Over Drive
Just like all good communists the stupid SOB doesn’t understand that governments can only destroy jobs and economies, not create them.
Back off, slash taxes, and eliminate 90% of the idiotic regulations that do nothing but create government jobs and we will prosper.
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