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It seems privately Obobo cuts deals with corporations, but publicly admonishes them for not doing enough to bring business to the US. Any chance he may have mentioned to those CEOs all the jobs lost through their outsourcing???
For the second time in as many months, President Obama has taken the nation that elected him president to task for its own lackadaisical economic performance on the global stage.
Obama told a group of CEOs today that the United States has gotten “lazy” and that America lost its hunger in promoting itself in a global marketplace.
“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — ‘Well, people would want to come here’ — and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America,” he told the CEOs who are gathered on the sidelines of the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, which the United States is hosting this year in Hawaii.
“I think it’s important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world and there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity — our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture,” he said.
Last September, in an interview with an Orlando, Fla., TV station, Obama made similar remarks, saying, “This a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. … We need to get back on track.”
To get back on track, Obama is using the APEC meetings and meetings with members of the new Trans-Pacific Partnership to try to stimulate the U.S. economy and create jobs. Members of the TPP will include nations from Australia and New Zealand to Chile and Peru. And, for the first time, Japan has also agreed to participate in the planning of the new partnership.
“There are still plenty of details to work out, but we are confident that we can do so,” Obama said. “It is an ambitious goal, but we are optimistic that we can get it done.”
They give money to corporations with NO stipulations about where they spend it or who they hire.
And then they have the nerve to blame these corporations when they spend that money offshore where they get more for the $$$ they invest.
He's been apologizing for America's alleged transgressions since his first day in office, and his party's loyalty to trial lawyers and environmentalists for 40+ years, on top of systematically destroying our public schools make his party the ones to blame for this.
If he wants to know who to blame over the past 3 years, hand him a mirror!!!!!!
Obama is correct, especially when it comes to our largest corporations--corporate leaders have acclimated themselves to billions in taxpayer subsidies and now know they can expect to be 'bailed out' because they are 'to big to fail'.
But Obama and the Democrats are just as guilty as the Republicans for giving in to the demands of these greedy corporate interests.
The well being and protection of the American people is no longer their primary concern and has not been for a long time---they are all now squarely focused on keeping multi-billion dollar corporations rich and happy.
He voted 'present' 130+ times while in the Illinois legislature, so making tough choices isn't something he's been known to do, only stupid ones.
He and the rest of his 'poverty pimps' contingent, including Jackson, Sharpton & Wright are a disgrace to the human race, as well as those of us who still believe in American exceptionalism and entrepreneurship.
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Any chance he may have mentioned to those CEOs all the jobs lost through their outsourcing???
