Big Blubbering Babies
by digby
This is just blatant working the refs at this point, but still — you’d think they’d have just a modicum of pride:
The head of industrial conglomerate 3M (MMM, Fortune 500) blasted the president as being “anti-business,” claiming Obama has not done anything to improve the White House’s relationship with Corporate America.3M CEO George Buckley called Obama’s policies “Robin Hood-esque” and told the Financial Times that manufacturers like 3M may have to shift production to other countries in order to stay competitive.”We know what his instincts are … he is anti business,” Buckley said in an interview that ran late Sunday.The interview comes as the White House pushes its pro-business agenda. Last week, the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness held its first meeting to brainstorm ideas on job growth and boosting the economy.The Council is headed by a roundtable of business leaders including General Electric’s (GE, Fortune 500) Jeffrey Immelt, AOL (AOL) co-founder Steve Case and Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) CEO Paul Otellini.Otellini had been critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the economic recovery back in September. But he joined 19 other CEOs for a White House summit in December to talk about job creation and other ways to move the economy forward…
Despite the recent public positions of other major business leaders, Buckley says he’s not alone.”There is a sense among companies that [the U.S.] is a difficult place to do business,” he told the FT. “We’ve got a real choice between manufacturing in Canada or Mexico — which tend to be more pro-business — and America.”
That’s very interesting. Canada has single payer health insurance — a huge benefit to employers — and higher taxes, something that these people are adamantly against. And Mexico pays people slave wages with no benefits, both of which these people obviously prefer. So, this statement would be incoherent, unless you just accept it for the obvious blackmail threat it is. Believe me, they are not lobbying to be more like Canada. They are lobbying to be more like Mexico. But hey, I suppose it could end up solving the immigration problem.
And these selfish, unpatriotic crybabies wonder why everyone hates them.
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