So.. Jack Welsh is on Morning Joe to defend union bashing.

[annabanana]

Apparently Joe Barnacle is scoring too many points for Joey Scab. to rebut all by himself.

[Vinca]

1. That guy is the poster child for greedy pigs.

Isn't he the father of outsourcing?

[madrchsod]

2. yes he is and he`s one of obama`s new best friends

[napi21]

3. Yea, I think he was the one who started it all. Visited India and

it struck him that all these people speak English, and make pennies compared to what we ave to pay in the US, so he returned with his brilliant new idea on how to save a bundle for GE.

[snappyturtle]

4. He all but used your words saying that the American consumer would

buy a refrigerator made in Korea over one made in USA if is was one hundred dollars cheaper. My question to JW would be, "Really"? I would ask this because for YEARS I have tried as have many others to buy USA made products and find that difficult to impossible to do.

I couldn't believe he also had the audacity to say the disparity of wealth has occurred in the last 8-10 years! What planet has he been on?

I was equally amazed that Pat Buchanan supported unions as much as he did...really surprised me.

[deminks]

5. His BFF's, the Kochs, called in a favor?

my guess.

Gotta badmouth those "slobs" every chance they get.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Why not Jack owns Joe's soul?

[TomClash]

7. Jack Welch had a two page contract when he was CEO of GE

He didn't care about his compensation very much because his buddies were all on the Board of Directors.

[DireStrike]

8. Why won't that fucker die already?

[SoCalDem]

10. He almost did a while back

but then he has excellent health care & he pulled through:(

[ItNerd4life]

9. You watching a different show than me? Jack Welsh made some valid points.

One of the things he said was when a union was trying to organize is one of his plants, it meant their was a jackass as a plant manager.
They would come in, throw out the plant manager and put someone in who cared about the workers. Treating labor with respect is what was important.

I don't see the problem with that type of thinking. There are many managers and companies who do treat workers with respect.

[myrna minx]

11. Yes - corporations do things out of the goodness of their hearts, thats why they

balked at the 40 hour work week, minimum wage, sick pay, child labor laws, workman's comp etc. All of those things were in theory going to destroy business. *cough*

[LiberalAndProud]

13. Yes, fear of unionized workers works to improve the workplace.

As soon as you remove that fear, the jackass stays and wages go down in real terms. Unions work for all of us, weather we belong or not.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Let me tell you all a lil' something something about Jack Welch:

This shitbag bastard fucker raised the bar in neo-Robber Baron ruthlessness, slashing employee numbers by the thousands while rewarding fellow executives with massive bonuses and stock options.

He has not an ounce of compassion for the middle and working classes, has publicly stated that he is not concerned with the discrepancy between the salaries of top-paid CEOs and those of average workers, opposes SEC reforms regulating executive pay, is an opponent of the Sarbanes/Oxley act, and started the massive outsourcing of GE's R&D to foreign nations such as India.

Many CEOs of the 80s and 90s, with an ally in the staunchly pro-corporate Reagan and Bewsh 41 admins, began to adopt Welch's agenda of rottenness.

Not only that, he was a philanderer (affair with his current wife while still married) and was in the control room of NBC during the 2000 election, DEMANDING their newscasters call the election for Bewsh:

http://makethemaccountable.com/coverup/Part_04.htm

To Welch, although George W. Bush might not be a genius, his policies would encourage those who were geniuses to be even more innovative and productive. Fewer government regulations and lower corporate taxes would create technological advancement, thereby benefiting society more than all of the do-gooder social programs combined ever could. The country would be run for the benefit of the “A” people who achieved great things, not the “C” people who merely existed. In such a laissez faire environment, the powerful would be unshackled to become even more powerful, and no corporation in the world was more powerful than General Electric.

By contrast, Welch viewed Al Gore as the candidate of the parasites. Gore voters were not the generators of wealth; they were the consumers of taxes. Welch privately described the typical Gore voter as “someone who needs all these goddamned social programs because she’s too goddamned dumb to keep her legs crossed and too goddamned lazy to get an abortion.”

[Stinky The Clown]

14. What a sad state when a right of center plagiarist is the "liberal" foil to a hard right panel.

[PassingFair]

15. He has always reminded me of the Dicken's character, Quilp.

Disgusting, greedy, immoral DEVIL.

On Edit:

I left out "unethical".

[myrna minx]

16. Coming up next on Morning Joe, Vlad Tepes to discuss the positives of 'benevolent monarchy'.