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Jobs, jobs jobs. That was the focus of President Barack Obama's trip to the battleground state of North Carolina today.
At a stop at Cree, Inc., a manufacturer of energy-efficient LED lighting, the president toured the factory and met with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council to talk about ways to spur economic growth and jump-start hiring.
"Today the single most serious economic problem we face is getting people back to work," Obama said. "I will not be satisfied 'til everyone who wants a good job that offers some security has a good job that offers some security."
Jobs top the list of Americans' concerns as a slew of recent economic data suggest the recovery could be slowing down and polls show the public is not impressed with the president's handling of the economy.
In light of the disappointing May jobs numbers -- when unemployment ticked up to 9.1 percent and the economy added a lower-than-expected 54,000 jobs -- the White House has been especially eager to show Obama is doing everything he can to promote job creation even in the face of what he has called strong "headwinds" like high gas prices, concerns about the debt crisis in Europe and instability in the Middle East.
With the two parties struggling over a deal to reduce the deficit and raise the limit for how much the county can borrow, there's no appetite for new stimulus from the GOP-controlled House.
To drive any significant job growth, private companies must invest and hire, which explains today's focus on the Jobs Council headed by General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. Immelt and American Express CEO Ken Chenault -- another council member -- wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal this morning in which they laid out what they called "fast-action" steps -- like training workers, cutting red tape and getting more loans to small businesses -- that they say could help create a million new jobs in two years.
At today's meeting, Jobs Council participants gave brief presentations to the president on topics ranging from the need to boost agricultural exports and update the air traffic control system, to changing immigration laws to help high-tech companies and training the manufacturing workforce. Immelt said the council was working on about 30 ideas and their focus over the next few months would be on infrastructure, small business financing and creation and encouraging more foreign direct investment in America.
While promising to act on some of these recommendations, Obama said it was wise of the group to focus on steps the private sector and the administration could take without legislation, but added that it "sends a message to Congress."
"We shouldn't have to work around Congress; they should be part of this process," Obama told the group at the end of the discussion, which lasted over an hour.
In the speech to Cree employees, Obama announced "an all hands on deck strategy to train 10,000 new American engineers every year" -- an idea that came up at the afternoon meeting.
North Carolina important to Obama's electoral prospects
It's no accident that Obama made this stop in North Carolina, where the unemployment rate in April was 9.7 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's a state he was able to swing to the Democratic category in the last election and one his party hopes to hold onto in 2012, when the Democratic convention will be held a couple hours away from Cree in Charlotte.
Then-candidate Obama visited Cree during the primary campaign in May of 2008 and Vice President Joe Biden returned to the firm last year to talk about how to help the middle class. With its focus on energy efficiency, the company fits in well with one of the president's top agenda items.
Today's trip is also an attempt to get ahead of the president's Republican critics who are using the May jobs data to criticize him. Sunday on "Meet the Press", Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accused him of not doing enough to address the economy's most pressing issue.
"We've got crushing unemployment in this country," Priebus said. "We've got a president that's whistling past the graveyard, we've got families that are struggling."
The RNC also sent out a release criticizing Cree for shipping jobs to China. The company received a $39 million Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit (48C) from the stimulus bill and a spokesman from House Speaker John Boehner's office said the event highlighted Obama's failure on the jobs issue.
"Each of these events is a fresh reminder of the President's failure to deliver the job creation he promised," Brendan Buck wrote in an email. "Photo-ops with business leaders only reinforce that no one in this administration has ideas to create the private sector jobs our economy desperately needs. Republicans have a Plan for American Job Creators, and we hope the President will work with us to implement it."
The two-day trip was not all policy. The president was headed to Miami to attend three DNC fundraisers on Monday night, before traveling to Puerto Rico on Tuesday in what will be the first presidential visit to the commonwealth since John F. Kennedy was in office.
In addition to Immelt and Chenault, among the other Jobs Council members at today's meeting were Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman, former Proctor and Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, UBS President Robert Wolf, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Eastman Kodak CEO Antonio Perez, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Pritzker Realty Group's Penny Pritzker -- who was also a fundraiser for Obama in 2008.
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Speaker Boehner - where are the JOBS you promised if the Teapublicans were voted in?
6 Months LATER and NOT ONE job's billed has been introduced?
Privatize Medicare & Medicaid and turn it into a 'groupon' - check
Wage war on womens reproductive rights - check
Why aren't you spending LESS time on social issues and MORE time on the economy?
Just askin!
Say Feisty did Obama ever promise jobs?
As I recall, he may have said a thing or two about jobs when he was touting his stimulus, right.
He sure doesn't seem to want to talk about his stimulus too much anymore. I wonder why that is?
OH, I was reading some of the discussion on a earlier thread about Weiner. YOU [of all the people] repondsed to someone who had made fun of someone else that they automatically lost the argument because they made fun of someone. It looks like the article and you comment was made yesterday. Sunday too, Feisty? Oh my, I guess Monday thorough Friday, without pause, just isn't enough for you.
I could not believe my eyes. Way to go Feisty! Oh wait. Hold the phone a second.
When you say "Weeper Boehner" you are not making fun of him are you? But, but, that would be totally inconsistent with what you just said.
Feisty?
Hmmm.
President Obama's record on jobs is...
Well...
It is what it is.
A matter of record.
Unemployment rate (as reported by the U.S. Labor Department) for May, 2009: 9.4%
Unemployment rate (as reported by the U.S. Labor Department) for May, 2011: 9.1%
As I've said...
It is what it is.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Where are the jobs that were promised with the stimulus package?
Where is Reid and the Democrats with a job plan?
Where is Reid and the Democrats on a budget, the debt ceiling, spending cuts?
Where is Reid and the Democrats on how to fix Medicare?
Hell, where are Reid and the Democrats?
Stop blaming the Republicans for all the ills in the world. The Democrats have done and said nothing in months.
Sorry SimpleMinded - nice attempt to deflect but, it was Boehner & his buddies who promised JOBS if elected!
Do try to focus for a change will ya? lol
They claimed to have ALL the answers and now their little feet are being held to the flames... hope it don't get to hot... lol
*gasp* I would sure hate to think we were LIED to! lol
It's sure gonna make some GREAT campaign ads in 2012! ;o)
spanky
has your fascination, Weinergate, left you?
you shouldn't worry for Obama is doing the peoples job. i expect you to be asking clueless boehner were are the job bills. in 2yrs this administration has created more jobs than bushes entire 8yrs. today in Manchester, jobs are available for Teapublicants Spinners.........I've got my lie proved jacket ready.
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Sorry SimpleMinded - nice attempt to deflect but, it was Boehner & his buddies who promised JOBS if elected!
................................................
So if the Republicans promised jobs, the Democrats promised no jobs?
Well then, they've fulfilled their campaign promise.
You're right, not their job. Leave it all to the Republicans and then complain about their plan when you don't have one.
Per Spanky's comment: of course you had to start out with an insult rather than answer the question: What have the Democrats Done?
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Speaker Boehner - where are the JOBS you promised if the Teapublicans were voted in?
6 Months LATER and NOT ONE job's billed has been introduced?
Feisty what wrong with you, don't you know that the 42 billion they spend on HLS last week is their jobs bill, spending 42 billion On HLS when we are broke, is the GOP way of doing things.
Thanks for reminding me!
What exactly is the Teapublican JOBS plan?
Other than cutting taxes - we've seen how well that's worked out! lol
Who's Spanky?
As for what the Democrats have done - not only did they stop the hemorrhaging of 750K jobs per month, they also have created MORE in 2 years that the entire 8 years of the Bush reign of terror!
You're turn to answer MY questions....
Well...we were promised alot of things from Obama that haven't materialized in the 2 1/2 years he's been in office, so how do not hold him to the same standards as that you are holding the Republicans who have just been serving 6 months? This isn't a deflections, but if you are going to hold someone to a promise make it applicable to both sides.... Again...double standards...
And thank you Spanky...I too caught Feisty's double standard on criticisizing a posters comment for commenting on someone's appearance/mannerisms, but yet she has many times insulted someone herself.. If that is her standard, then she loses every argument she starts...
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Not the "Teapublican JOBS plan", the Democrats.
No answer of course, but change the subject again?
There is no discussion with you, just the same old sorry words over and over.
Check Think Progress and see if you can find something about Democratic plans regarding jobs and the economy. I look forward to the cut and paste.
Unemployment is over 9% and was just over 7% when Obama took over.
Where are the jobs?
Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Teapublicants job plan is to give tax cuts to the coporations and the rich then block the hole created by the tax cut by imposing austerity measures with ryans budget on middle class. this is the basic truth of what teapublicants wants to do.
As the brand-spanking, shiny new president, he was mostly relying on what his economic advisers were telling him.
You know, Geithner, Paulson, and the rest of the boys -- the same ones that got us INTO this mess.
Some folks, like Robert Reich, for example, and a variety of other economists, were saying that the package was not large enough, being largely composed of tax cuts and not enough REAL stimulus.
Be careful what you wish for, Spanky. I certainly can question Obama's choice of advisers, but YOUR trying to do it gives you a whole boatload of problems trying to explain the advice they were giving him, as opposed to the advice he didn't take to do more.
Ah. The last refuge of those who have nothing substantive to say. Your blogging name suits you.
WOW you sure get flustered easily! LMAO
Speaking of accomplishments, I asked on a earlier thread for one of the Teapublicans to provide a list of what they've accomplished since they took over the house...
Imagine my suprise when no one responded! lol
Any of you mental midgets want to take a stab at it?
Ah, see Puis, this here is where all the spin and fancy words stop.
We have real numbers. Just look at Mixed Bag's post. Now I get that you libbies are very math challenged so let me break it down even further for you - that's a .3 improvement.
That, standing alone sucks. But when you calculate the real cost of the jobs that make up the .3, it is horrendous. Plus we all know it will be worse - with more unemployment in the coming months. Only questio is will we hit 10% before October. Looking like we will.
Pius, you do get that, right? Sure you do.
And Simpleton92 - Feisty will only refer to me in her funny little passive aggressive way, which is only after some one less passive aggressive refers to me. I think it is cute. Besides she learned long ago not to try to respond to me. Fact is she is incapable. At least she has the good sense to recognize it, the poor old dear.
It causes me no pause AM.
Fact, your comment really highlights the bad choices in advisors he has chosen. Ah well, good news is they have all left. Except Timmy G. You think he has figured out Turbo Tax yet?
Oh and look Feisty is calling people mental midgets. It also appears that the old dear thinks she has a "winning" argument.
Let's let her have her fun for a day or so. This one is great. And she really has no clue too, which is even better.
Go Feisty - you go get 'em.
spanky,
I only asked you a very simple question, where's boehner and his clueless congress job bill?. NONE, right?
what your teapublicants are offering are, imposed austerity measures on middle class and more tax cuts for the rich and corporation.......refute this, spanky.
Anna Molly and Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL..
So just insults and no answers to a very simple question.
When Obama became President unemployment was over 7%. It is now over 9%.
What has he or the democratic party done to create jobs?
Answer: (Left blank on purpose)
@ Simpleton: I suppose you think YOUR snarky reference to "cut and paste" wasn't an insult?
I was just pointing it out.
As for jobs: More than a million added since January 1, 2010. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Look it UP.
Since your side wants to hold the President responsible for everything that's happened since January 1, 2009, then the President gets FULL credit for ALL those jobs.
I'm willing to bet you liked them all well enough while you were enjoying the largess of the Bush years, before the full magnitude of the economic disaster they caused was revealed.
No Puis - what they are offering you is a possibility that the whole system doesn't crash down under it's own weight.
Go read what the PIMCO guy is saying on CNBC. It is chilling.
Like the latest report on the continued viability of medicare. Doom, Pius, that's what is staring you in the face. Seems you don't see that. Ignorance is bliss, right?
Say Pius I don't suppose you have a take on the fact that Obama has brought back Writs of Assistance? Absolutely horrible, right?
Bev. you out there? MoveOn and Think Progress have got to be sick over this, right?
Why does Obama hate the 4th Amendment?
for one thing fiesty you cant do anything with a democratic senate and a anti buss. dem pres. they shoot down everything that the house puts forth, take oil drilling, thousands of jobs shot down by your precious democrap it senate,hell it goes back to bush the majority of the sen. was dems and they blocked changes back then.big buss cant start a buss. here when they dont know what kind of taxes they will have topay or if they will have to pay big fines to the irs if they cant come up with enough money to pay salaries plus expensive healthcare for all employees,I know I had to pay for half of my ins. dureing the 30 years I wokrd for the same comp.and was happy to get it,but we know the dems want everything handed to them instead of just being happy they got a damm job.
Me - I was too busy working and building my business and practice "during the Bush years."
But as for the rest it would appear that you concede he should have picked differently. I know you think he can do better, but why not use a union big brain?
Isn't it funny that Feisty is incapable of formulating a response. Your arms must be getting tired having to do all the heavy lifting for the libbies around here Anna.
And You AM, how you liking the new return to Writs of assistance? Frightening, right?
feisty with red wig talks, credibility drops... just like Obama.
In 2009 Obama used the phase 'shovel ready jobs' well over a hundred times in support of Stimulus I and even stimulus II..... all lies it seems! Unemployment is higher today. Obama's war on the private sector is winning, and the middle class is dying.
Where's the meat feisty? Where'd the money go...? You are a hypocrite and the administration is an abject failure! Would you still have voted for Obama had you known he'd quadruple the debt? I don't think any level headed tax payer would say yes to that! But your head is in a different place, lol, especially with that puffy wig on.... stay out of rooms with ceiling fans feisty!
Boufant hair is out and fiscal responsibilty and spending cuts are in.... the Country wants change in 2012 and we won't havetosresort to manure slinging to get it... get it, feisty?
spanky
Dooms day? LMAO.....listen, you can paint the bleakest picture as you want. this is old teapublicants fear mongering.
lets try again, where's boehner and his clueless congress job bill? common spanky.......provide one.
Remember this one AM? No truer words have ever been spoken!
Well, no matter how you slice it, Obama is stepping out on the limb here. This is what he said:
"Today the single most serious economic problem we face is getting people back to work," Obama said. "I will not be satisfied 'til everyone who wants a good job that offers some security has a good job that offers some security."
Now that sounds like a campaign promise. The funny thing is, government doesn't create jobs, private enterprise does. It's amazing that someone with a "Havard degree," cumma some laud or another can't figure this out. It's called "becoming capitalist friendly" Obama! Businesses do NOT trust the Obamacomics he has layed out for the last 2 1/2 years.
This guy has to go!
At this point I would settle for a list of Tea Bagger accomplishments...
It's going to be pretty challenging to run on NOTHING! ;o)
So Feisty, I suppose you have an actual source or you just dreamed that one up? I can tell you work for MSNBC...your posts are obviously ripe with your lies and delusions.
Anna,
Simpleton 92 is framing his question with percentages, and you answer him with a nomber, not a percentage. How about answering the question he asked??
Don't worry Brianb - Obama stepped in his own @!$%# today and will definitely be held accountable for this promise.
It'll take us two years to clean the BS off our shoes, but it'll be worth it to watch him leave in 2013. We're gonna let the door hit Michelle in her big fat ass...while we chant and sing "Hey Hey Hey Good-buy"
Feisty is obviously not a very smart person. Her idea of debate is name calling and insults. She is constantly breaking the rules here yet never gets banned for even a day. The only reason for this is that she is part of MSNBC and paid to cause trouble. How else would she always get in the fist post? She and Bev are likely the same person.
Fair and balanced this place is not.
Oh - and to you libs out there that keep on harping about the republican's promise to create jobs... I'll use your excuse.... they haven't even been in office for a year. They have an upward battle to fight against the liberal democrat in the White House and the liberal democrat controlled senate.
That's OK though, Obama doesn't stand a chance of re-election with the unemployment rate as high as it is. If anyone thinks it's going to fall much in a year and a half, you are dreaming. No sitting president has ever been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7.2%.
You missed it Bob. She told us she works for MSNBC, so I guess they get to post lies and get away with attacking people who don't believe in the Almighty Obama.
She's a paid troll. No reason to get a real job when you get paid to attack those you are jealous of for a living. She probably receives plenty of gub-ment supplements as well.
My theory SueZQ is that the carrot top in drag is really Mark, one of the writers for MSNBC. You know how the internet works, you can be anyone you want, even if it means dying your hair red and changing gender.
My My SuziQ - aren't you the little potty mouth darlin? lol
And you have the audicity to call liberal women names?
I am so enjoying the fear & frenzy you all are displaying about President Obama's re-election chances...
Suck when you don't have a single candidate you can support doesn't it?
Google Bushism's (you do know how to google don't you SuziQ) there's plenty MORE where that came from... ;o)
P.T. Barnum was right - there really is a SUCKER born every minute! Hey I got a bridge I'd like to sell you if your interested...
By which you mean a general search warrant? Don't know. Haven't been following. Yes, that would be frightening.
But tell me, Spanky, were you this worried when the Patriot Act was passed? Because that more or less acts the same way, you know.
Oh, so sorry. Was I being obtuse again? Sorry.
Or maybe it was because THIS was the question he asked, and I don't see anything about percentages anywhere in it.
Once again, Edward, the answer was 1.2 million jobs created since January, 2010. I believe that would be about a 1.2 million more jobs than Bush created in his entire eight years. So, as percentages go, that would be pretty high. At least, I would think it would be high, if only I could do math, of course.
I could do math, I suppose, if I wasn't so busy being an "evil, angry b!tch," to quote SueZQ45, who is SO smart and only says sweet things. You're SO lucky to have her on YOUR side.
Sigh.
First - as to the silly assertion that Feisty is now, or has even been gainfully employed let me just say, no way no how. She is not employed by MSNBC. It may be a pit of ratings despair, but not even Huffington Post would "hire" our gal Feisty.
She can spew names and cut and paste. And that, sadly is it. That and the fact that by all accounts, just based upon time spent here, she is a shut in. So ease up and let her get whatever enjoyment she can out of this board. Not like the poor dear has a family or apparently do anything but stare at her computer.
Secondly - AM I'm talking about all the new powers Holder has conferred on the FBI and it's ability for warrantless searches. They now have the power to undertake what used to be called Writs of Assistance - non-specific search warrants. Horrifying.
Anna Molly
Writs of assistance, an issue over which our founders ended up rebelling from the king and setting up a separate country. It’s yet another crack in the idea of privacy.
Spanky,
Feisty should be cautious..."midget" is not politically correct. If she wanted to insult someone, she should have used the more acceptable term of "dwarf"....
Swamp,
“Now where are those jobs Red? Provide that for me please.” With no bills to help the private sector in job creation and expansion from the Republican House it must imply that what our President has done cannot be improved on or Speaker Boehner would have surly introduced bills to help the private sector.
Did everyone miss the fact that obama wants business to approach congress for assistance? Not even bloombergtv missed obamas turnaround on that it is now up to bussiness to create jobs. Obama and the government can't do it.
A shout out to my boy Drive By: Where are all the GREEN jobs Obama?
We were all promised "Green Shoots."
So, where are they?
...and it only took 2 1/2 years to come up with..steps like training workers, cutting red tape and getting more loans to small businesses that they say could help create a million new jobs in two years.
From the best business minds in America.
"Red-tape" is regulations, correct? Processes and rules that are no longer required, correct?
Just where have regulations been cut?
Gosh darn it JAS1 - it looks like you ran off my boy Drive By.
I think he is very sensitive. Although you did pound him pretty good earlier.
You think he really could afford a Volt?
Don't forget, Groucho, that these are the same "business minds" that got us into this fix in first place.
They're much too important to think in terms of "jobs." That's "little people" thinking. They're much more concerned with markets and capital and other wizard stuff that the average person couldn't possibly understand. Neither do they, of course, but it provides a convenient cover for their inability to come up with a practical idea for anything.
So AM are you conceding that Obama cannot figure this out on his own? He has to resort to relying so much on "the same business minds?"
Pretty funny, cause it sure seems like he, and you are totally discounting the Libbie minds. Why didn't he listen to the Krugmans or other Keynesian's? Or better yet how come he didn't listen to or rely on some big brained union boss?
Surely there must be some "liittle people" or "average person" out there that he could have gone to, no?
Perhaps you?
Spanky,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the article state that this administration wants to train 10,000 engineers a year?? Don't we now have engineers pushing brooms and driving taxis?? What is the sense of training people for jobs that are not there??
Also, one of the "power ideas" at this photo-op was to change immigration laws to help high-tech companies??? Another backdoor amnesty ploy??
Yes, but the Central Planning Bureau needs workers.
The government can train, it can tax and apparently it can tax to train.
Brilliant.
hey there should be plenty of lemo driver jobs at the whitehouse,hell as broke as we are obuma has added 73% more gas hog lemos 1800 more gov. jobs just in washington,and would someone please tell me thier not going to make people do away with 1.79 light bulbs and have to bur 20.00 bulbs,is this true or not,and please dont take away harry;s cowboy poetry fair next year,its worth every bit of those many thousand dollars, and if Im not mistaken obuma himself admitted thier were really no shovel ready jobs.no wonder it took an admitteing crack smokeing president three times to pass the bar exam, help him rev. wright I think he may be straying back to ayres ways of doing things unless G. soras bells him out like he does msnbc and all the other dem biast channels.
Anna - pretty hard to focus in on any one group, political or otherwise, for the great recession, we all played a part in its creation, just as we will all need to play a part in getting out of it.
I did so like obamas public comment recently on his not being concerned with a double dip recession. Wonder if it will come back and haunt him in the years to come? Hopefully not, but current market conditions are pretty uncertain at this time what with the US increasing debt, europes challenges, the mid east and chinas slowing economy.
Obama: "Jobs, jobs, jobs!"
See, that's all you have to do, just have to talk about those jobs, and they show up. All these trillions we spent, just wasted. We just need a cheerleader like Obama to create those wonderful jobs.
Now that's all Obama has to do is convince enough lemmings that "9% unemployment is the new normal" and he's a shoe-in for re-election.
JoAnnaSmith1
you sound stressed when lying. only if you can just reshape your mouth and ask, Boehner "where are the Jobs". I betcha, you'll have done yourself a great favour.
Right JoAnna,
Under Obama, this is the new normal. And then he pushes a $40,000 electric car on the American people who cant even live paycheck to paycheck. What a wortless piece of Democratic crap.
pius - most of us like to live in the real world, not your imaginary world of liberal good and plenty. It is not hard to imagine that unbridled spending will destroy everything you think you want.
Your desire for jobs is commendable. All those billions spent by obama to create about 1.8 million jobs since 2009. Hardly an accomplishment considering the millions still out of work or forced into early retirement. Almost seems that if obama spent only enough to keep the auto industry afloat, we still would have had the same number of jobs created. + more $$$ in our treasury going towards new jobs or training.
Even illinois sec of treasury blasted the illinois legislature for wanting to pass a state budget that far exceeded revenues. Revenues that reflected the states recent increase of over 50% in income taxes.
FR: At a stop at Cree, Inc., a manufacturer of energy-efficient LED lighting,
That reminds me, I have to get to the Home Depot and stock up on cheap light bulbs......
Like Cree is such a great employer of Americans according to this article....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree_Inc.
Way to spread the word Mr. President! The "Gross Odd People" (GOP), and the "Really Not Competent" (RNC) go mentally unstable everytime the President takes his messages to the people. The GOP/RNC are still the party of No, and all of their rhetoric still spells profits for big oil. The GOP "Hoodlum's On The Hill" voted on the destruction of Medicare in the House, and the big insurance CEO's are counting the profits already. The President thinks on his feet, speaks clearly, and is trying to do the best job he can. No! This President does not need a teleprompter. THINK GOP! If that is possible?? So Mr. Priesident keep talking to the people, and keep your messages on task. The message is JOBS! The President is very aware of this jobs issue, and he cares about how this is effecting his fellow citizens. That is fact!
I am not Republican but the President needs to do more than speak.. Actions speak louder than pretty words. The company he visited, Cree is not a shining example of creating American jobs. It transferred some of its operations from Sunnyvale, CA to China. It also opened a subsidiary in China. It has only promised to add 575 jobs in the US by 2012.
When small business is stifled by high taxes, bureaucracy, overregulation, Obama's idea is to bring together a bureaucracy of crony capitalists, who want to be like Jeff Immalt, and figure out new policies by which they can feed off the taxpayers, instead of actually producing products people want to buy.
“Jobs and Competitiveness Council”
“Slowly, steadily, they’re helping us to move forward.”
Obama said at a plant in North Carolina that makes energy efficient lighting. He specifically mentioned GE CEO Jeff Immelt and Intel CEO Paul Otellini.....
More crony capitalism, stimulus spending , billions for GE , and phony baloney 'green' jobs are on the way !!
Obama said this, after going to Wall Street to beg for more campaign contributions from his crony capitalist buddies.....
Bob-1887910
your accusing obama of capitalism and not socialism......holy cow. is the earth square?
I guess your rehearsing tonights teapublicants debate. good luck.
What jobs?
Last I heard was that all textile jobs from Carolinas have been exported out of USA.
Expect more campaign trips, more photo ops, more pledges of our money to buy his votes. He views this as his job for the next 18 months (between vacations and golf).
If you think nothing got accomplished before, just wait. Campaign comes first.
Eighteen(18) months before the 2012 election, the signs of an unusual presidential year are abundant resulting from the Democratic convention being in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature are throwing up roadblocks to president Obama's organization and airing anti-Obama ads.
Obama surprised Republicans in 2008 by carrying North Carolina. He won. The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature and GOP/TEA members started ads attacking President Obama like this: "Thanks to Obama's budget deficits, we face high unemployment and an uncertain future," announcer says in ad. "And now he's back, asking us to believe him again." The budget deficits are the result of poor money management by the GOP/TEA party controlled Congress. It's the congress that controls the money. The GOP/TEA have fought President Obama on every issue to keep him from making any headway. We can believe the president because Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic activity generally continued to expand since the last report, though a few districts indicated some deceleration," the Beige Book said Wednesday. Despite a few signs that economic growth is slowing, the report covering the Fed's 12 districts reported the recovery is actually chugging along at a solid pace. The GOP candidate for governor said "Right now millions of dollars are pouring into our state. Thousands of ACORN-style workers are moving into our state as we speak" in an effort to inject "Race" into the race. House Republican's broadcast the introduction of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to help mobilize conservative groups to vote. The North Carolina legislature shorten the early-voting period, will require photo IDs ,will bar straight-party voting, cut election funding which pays for satellite voting sites in an effort to control voters and voting. A former judge and civil rights attorney, said photo ID and shorter early-voting period to "disenfranchise" voters may violate the federal Voting Rights Act if they become law.