http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/sep/8/obama-invites-ges-immelt-jobs-speech/
Obama invites GE’s Immelt to jobs speech
by Dave Boyer
Published on September 8, 2011
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The White House’s invited guests who will hear President Obama speak to Congress tonight about creating jobs for the common man include a CEO under fire for moving jobs to China and a mayor who recently built a six-foot wall around his mansion.
Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of GE and head of the president’s jobs council, tops the list of invited guests who will listen to Mr. Obama’s speech from the first lady’s box in the House chamber.
Mr. Immelt has been criticized for GE’s plan to move the headquarters of its x-ray business to Beijing; Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, has even called on him to resign from his presidential post promoting U.S. jobs.
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This guy, Immelt, is a perfect example of what’s wrong with this picture.
Crony capitalism, globalism gone awry, and tax breaks for “friends”.
The original intent was that the Government was funded from tariffs. Those tariffs would have prevented GE from taking those jobs to China.
Maybe the car industry could have saved itself from the unfair competition of social costs on them but not on imports.
We need a little economic nationalism here.
People and products need to cross borders easily. But that doesn’t mean stupidly!
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