Obama Summons CEOS to White House for Talk as he Seeks Change:

[robinlynne]

The president who promised change for a country that was brought to the brink of depression is seeking advice from business leaders two years later for what may be his own makeover as he tries to find jobs for 15 million unemployed Americans.

President Barack Obama has met with Michael Duke, chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Alan Lafley, a former CEO of Procter & Gamble Co., and Steven Reinemund, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc. He has also spoken with former President Bill Clinton. More discussions are on the way.

“Over the next several weeks I’m going to be meeting with my economic team, with business leaders and others to develop specific policies and budget recommendations for the coming year,” Obama, whose Democratic Party last month lost its U.S. House majority in its worst defeat since 1938, said yesterday during a speech in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

link to the article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-07/obama-brings-ceos-to-white-house-huddle-as-44th-president-changes-himself.html

I'm going to go vomit.

[somone]

1. They Are The Change He Seeks

[Go2Peace]

43. He's making way for his post Presidency work

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[Autumn]

2. Here's your budget you are going to get from them Obama.

Take from the poor, give to the rich.

[arcane1]

3. "develop specific policies and budget recommendations" with Walmart's CEO?

I wonder what Wally World will want in exchange for hiring a few thousand part-time minimum wage people?

[katnapped]

19. Minimum wage cut, of course

Fix is in, folks!

[Poll_Blind]

4. Your ultra-soft pink fleece robe provides little comfort in these troubling times.

:rofl:

PB

[robinlynne]

18. my bad. at least it's funny. But Obama meeting with CEo of Walmart for advice for America

is terrifying.

[Poll_Blind]

21. I agree! n/t

PB

[CountAllVotes]

5. Ultrasoft Fleece Robe, Zip-Front

this is where the link you just posted takes you to ... ?

[robinlynne]

7. oh no. will redo. That was for my MOm....

[Poll_Blind]

9. Heh heh! Suuuuuuuuuure!

:)

PB

[robinlynne]

14. corrected link is there now....I'm in between a Mom with alzheimers and what's going on in the

world....

[Poll_Blind]

17. Heh heh, I was jest pokin' ya!

:hug:

PB

[robinlynne]

20. comic relief rocks.

[robinlynne]

10. link is now above.

[Crazy Dave]

6. The last meeting with CEOs...

Created historic, record breaking profits for corporations without creating jobs here in the US.

What will they come up with next?

[Autumn]

11. A replay of the same old tired shit

I doubt any of them a capable of coming up with a different idea. The new motto is :It didn't work, Let's do it again

[polichick]

8. At least his agenda is becoming more and more transparent. nt

[Jakes Progress]

12. Let's not get advice from the people who need jobs.

Let's not get advice from the people whose money is paying for these CEO's bailouts.

Let's not get advice from nobel economists and social leaders.

Let's get our orders from wall street and corporate tycoons. Yeah. That's change.

(robinlynne. try to hole back the vomit. With what these crooks will come up with, we are going to need to keep all the food in us we can. Their goal is to take the food and clothing from your family. It seems our president's goal is to help them.)

[TwilightGardener]

13. Tryin' like hell to get them to hire. I doubt it will work, but I appreciate

his going to them directly to ask.

[katnapped]

22. Waaaaaaaa

"Oh please won't you hire these people....so I can save my legacy and get re-elected? I'll give you anything you want!"

[TwilightGardener]

25. Oh, he can't do anything right, can he? What a fool, meeting with CEO's

and business leaders during a period of chronic unemployment to find out what's going on. He should just give up.

[robinlynne]

28. no. he should tax the hell out of the rich and create jobs with the money.

[katnapped]

We already know what's "going on"

Business is getting taxed too much, regulated too much, and employees are making too much. Same song and dance as it's ever been. Sheesh!

[robinlynne]

27. more efficient alternative: create government jobs. Remember FDR?

[TwilightGardener]

29. And that would pass through Congress...how? That would be another huge stimulus.

[robinlynne]

42. much smaller than the stimulus they're about to provide for the rich.

[Individualist]

36. "Tryin' like hell to get them to hire."?

:rofl:

[Nite Owl]

15. More change we can(not) believe in.

It's like when he said things during the campaign he just finish the sentence.
Like health insurance reform (for the benefit of the health insurance companies)
Create jobs (in China)
DADT (don't ask us to do anything for you and we won't tell you what we intend to really do)
Hope and change (hope for more $ the bankers and CEO's, change is all we get)

[glinda]

16. Well he shows he is for Corpse. that like to take over every other Company. Blech*

[piratefish08]

23. it must be Christmas Bonus time! Yay for them!

[ddeclue]

24. Shouldn't this be entitled: CEOs summon Obama to White House to give him talking points?

[robinlynne]

26. Walmart? Walmart CEO is going to help America? advise our PRes?

[Gin]

31. they ARE his financial team....who is he kidding?

here is the deal...create a few jobs...the gov will subsidize the payroll costs...just don't tell anyone about us (gov) actually paying the salaries...make it seem like the economy is improving.

[Gin]

32. they ARE his financial team....who is he kidding?

here is the deal...create a few jobs...the gov will subsidize the payroll costs...just don't tell anyone about us (gov) actually paying the salaries...make it seem like the economy is improving.

[niceypoo]

37. The chairman of WALMART?

Walmart systematically destroys small town businesses and siphons the money out of state.

'Change' we can believe in

[blindpig]

30. Ya gotta love that...

a politician who talks directly to his constituency. Direct Plutocracy, you wanted change, you got it, the dog and pony show is running down the curtain.

[Better Believe It]

33. Advice from Wal-Mart on how to destroy a small business!

[chill_wind]

34. Because all the CEO's already on his PERAB aren't enough.

* Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric chief executive
* James W. Owens, head of Caterpillar
* Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas
* Mark Gallogly,<9><10> founder and managing partner at Centerbridge Partners L.P.<11><12>
* Penny Pritzker, chair and founder of Pritzker Realty Group and Classic Residence by Hyatt
* John Doerr, partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
* Monica C. Lozano,<13><14> Director of Bank of America
* Charles E. Phillips, Jr., president of Oracle Corporation.
* Richard L. Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO
* Austan Goolsbee, chairperson of Council of Economic Advisers
* Christina Romer, former chairperson of Council of Economic Advisers
* William H. Donaldson, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman
* Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Member
* Martin Feldstein, former chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan,
* Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Member
* David F. Swensen, CIO at Yale University<15>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Economic_Recovery_Advisory_Board

(Incidentally, I just love it that Laura Tyson's ties to Morgan Stanley and Martin Feldstein's to AIG aren't ALSO mentioned here in any way)

Yes, god forbid he should bring in any distinguished outside ECONOMISTS for a conversation..

[NorthCarolina]

35. Begging for donations to fund a 2012 primary campaign? nt

[niceypoo]

38. Will Obama switch parties?

Will the assimilation become complete by 2012?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. Will he be required to kiss their rings before "compromising" with them?

[DefenseLawyer]

40. Apparently lower wages are the key to a solid recovery!

Imagine that.

[kenny blankenship]

41. This is what you're going to get from any Neo-Liberal, whether Repuke or Democrat

Nothing can change, nothing can be done at all, no policy direction can be charted unless the proposed change can be conditioned on higher corporate profits. To a Neo-Liberal like Clinton or Obama -or their spiritual father Ronald Reagan- everything is or should be a PRIVATE TRANSACTION with a buyer and a seller and a profit made. Need healthcare reform? Ask insurance companies, for-profit hospital chains and pharmaceutical companies what they want and will offer. Need Social Security? Ask about a mandatory individual retirement plan investment account from one of the 5 banks that run the country...