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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some of my friends are calling the crony capitalists the ‘ruling elite’ (the ‘elite’ term is just too special for me.
We’ve always known the powerful protect the powerful but they’ve never been so blatant until now. They lie, cheat, and steal with impunity. When confronted they actually deny any and all allegations despite all the evidence.
We may have crossed the rubicon.
Are there enough who believe in individual liberty and economic freedom to overcome our lot or do we proceed to become a second rate country, a society of lies we tell ourselves?
When did we get out of the ditch? I must have missed that.
2012 is a big year for us. 2016 may be too late.
Lets see gutting Healthcare, sending our jobs to China at triple the rate, epa garbage, long laundry list of ‘new’ regs, 1099’s ...list is endless of job killing, not job creating.
Won't work if the RPM is too low. And his RPM is quite low.
I think he already ground a few pounds and seized up the transmission. This baby “ain’t going nowhere” until he’s gone.
Does “overdrive” mean “hyperinflation”?
30th Anniversary of Presidents Reagans First Inaugural, 1/20/81.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time weve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.
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