Sometimes, I feel like I'm in the twilight zone-
I don't really want to start a pie fight. I mean, not really.
Actually, I don't even think this constitutes a diary of some sort-
Just quotes-
( a little addition at the bottom)...
Anyway, Arianna Huffington and some people on this site ( oooh, the all-dreaded "professional left" ) have been screaming for the past year or so how this administration is just not that into Main Street, coddles Wall Street, has been incredibly soft on them,etc...
Geithner and Summers need to be fired ! Fired I tell you ! They are just too freaking ( can I say freakin' in here? ) friendly with them! They speak the same language!
Put someone in charge like Robert Reich, who will put the fear of God into these criminals...
Imagine my surprise when the Huffpo ( blah)posted this little gem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... -
I'm not sure if it really fits into the whole narrative.
I mean, it might.. .and am sure will be pointed to me that this exactly confirms everything they thought.
Here you go, quotes from this administration's " Great Friends" (according to some who are "bitterly disappointed" in "Obama the corporatist")
Intel CEO Paul Otellini:
" The U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business ... that there is likely to be "an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth, much like we're seeing today in Europe -- this is the bitter truth.'"
"...."
"If our tax rate approached that of the rest of the world, corporations would have an incentive to invest here."
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg :
The administration is creating an " increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation."
"By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses."
Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent
"I have never seen it work where a government tells people what to eat and what to drink,"
"If it worked, the Soviet Union would still be around."
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon ( a strong favorite):
""The incessant broad-based vilification of the banking industry isn't fair and it is damaging...punishing whole industries, whether you were reckless or not, just isn't the way to do things."
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt ( why I thought he was practically family):
"People are in a really bad mood [in the US]," Mr Immelt said. "We [the US] are a pathetic exporter...we have to become an industrial powerhouse again but you don’t do this when government and entrepreneurs are not in sync."
Loews Corp CEO Jim Tisch :
Administration sends ".. a strong message to American industry that if your industry gets in trouble, there’s a possibility you won’t get a fair shake," Tisch said. "Part of the problem is that business has very little confidence in what’s been going on and very little visibility."
Blackstone Group CEO Steven Schwarzman :
Obama supports raising the the current rate at which private equity managers are taxed on certain income to 35 percent from the current 15 percent.
"It's a war," Mr. Schwarzman said - "It's like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939."
Mmm... Who else did I miss? Those Soviets, that Hitler and those commies I tell ya.. all the same...
Make up your mind America - Your President is either a sell out, a corporatist, Hitler, Mussolini, a communist, a Muslim, an "illegal alien", a wimp, a dictator, a table, a violin, a bee, a .., he can't be all.
Or can he ??
I need a drink.
PS ( Update 1) : For those who still say " Obama is no Roosevelt"- You are absolutely right.
And Steve Forbes strongly agrees:
"The truth is that not even the Franklin Roosevelt Administration was as hostile to and ignorant about free enterprise as this Administration is,"...