White House: Give Industry Greater Voice

[shawn703]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a new presidential council to give U.S. companies a greater voice in government decisions and making other recommendations aimed at bolstering the ailing manufacturing sector.

The administration's report on manufacturing says the Treasury Department (news - web sites) should study how to make tax laws less complex and costly for companies to comply with. Also, the White House budget office should conduct a government-wide review of regulations to assess their impact on U.S. manufacturers.

The long-awaited report was to be made public Friday during a visit by Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland, a successful midsize company that makes sophisticated welding equipment.




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[shawn703]

1. Screw the people, industry needs the bigger voice? n/t

[xray s]

6. Wow...that picture says it all

The United Corporations of America

[Gman]

2. Sometimes I feel like changing my handle to "nothing shocks me any more"

'cept its already taken.

[cthrumatrix]

3. what happened to "by the people, for the people"...????

[blindpig]

30. hey, corporations are people too. Not! n/t

[0007]

36. ...but they don't bank in America and WE do

WHO receives all the big tax breaks? Of course it isn't the working class!

[calimary]

4. Give industry a greater voice???

JEEZ, they already have the ONLY voice!

[bobbieinok]

5. yes, this is truly an unbelievable statement

...

[salin]

24. but clearly... it isn't "loud" enough

:eyes:

[lovedems]

7. So they get to ship jobs overseas AND benefit from american workers

taxes at the same time. Their shamlessness is an absolute embarrassment. If these mother truckers get 4 more years, the death of the american dream will be right around the corner.

[arcane1]

8. translated: "Bush hates democracy, proposes fascism"

as if industry didn't ALREADY have too much of a voice!!!

:wtf:

[Guaranteed]

26. Yup.

This is getting really, really scary.

If he gets re-elected, we're going to have to leave.

[peterh]

9. new presidential council????

Call it what ya what….it’s still dick’s group with maybe new presidential rules for tighter secrecy :eyes:

[Ksec]

10. LMAO what gall this moron has!

As if theyre not running his admin now..

[arcane1]

11. notice that all they are apparently going to discuss..

are tex cuts and deregulation, as if THAT'S the problem...

CEO salaries have gone up hundreds of times higher than employee wages, and shareholders are more important than the product, the workers, or the customers, but the reason we're sucking is because of regulations and taxes?

If that's the case, why were these industries doing so well before?

do you think they will pass that savings on to you and me? Fuck no, once Bush's so-called immigration plan kicks in, it will be legal for factories to hire people for $10 a day... the kind of job Americans "won't do"

:puke:

[T Bone]

18. Well yes, they are running his admin now, HE just doesn't know it

unka dick, the snarly one, hasn't told him yet.

[ScholarSeeker]

12. Give them a greater voice than they already have???

Sure, don't let ethics get in the way

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[0007]

13. Ya mean like lower pay with longer hours and no overtime?

And no more shitty unions? And abolish the Child Labor Laws. Three day vacations once a year with no pay. Holidays will be treated like an ordinary work day.

This should bring up junior's poll numbers.

[silverweb]

14. Wake up, America!

The Fourth Reich is alive and well, and YOU are to be its slaves!

"Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the state."
~U.S. Army: Army Talk, Orientation Fact Sheet 64, March 24, 1945.

"Fascism: a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
American Heritage Dictionary (an older edition)

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
~Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator of Italy

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The heart and soul of fascism was the corporative state.”
~James B. Whisker

On edit: Emphasis.

[Cocoa]

15. industry has been shut out for too long

Bush really has found the pulse of what's wrong with the economy.

[Rex]

16. Fascism rears it's ugly head!

It is the 7 headed dragon (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rummy, Ashcroft, Ridge). Rove, of course, is Satan.

[bushh8ter]

17. ROFLMAO - surely they jest!

Like we aren't already a fascist state?
We've already got Exxon, Enron and Shell writing up our energy policy for invisible Dick AND directing foreign policy in the Middle East.
When will this nightmare end?

[JoeMemphis]

19. Half bad, half good ...

Yes, it's laughable to suggest that business interests don't have a large enough voice in government (they do have the White House, the House, and Senate, right?).

Something good could come about: The report restates a number of initiatives the administration has already announced. Those include reorganizing the Commerce Department to place more emphasis on penalizing unfair trade practices and promoting U.S. exports.

If Bush* would ever grow a pair and stand up to China's unfair trade practices (floating the yuan in particular), we might not be in such bad shape economically and job-wise.

[leesa]

23. Right. Good thing the US doesn't have unfair trading practices

Turnip truck?

[alittlelark]

20. Isn't Fascism

the collaboration of political administration and corporations?? Maybe my dictionary is a bit old and the new ones are more acceptably Orwellian.

[Occulus]

42. once publishing companies became corporations

the definition was promptly changed.

Geez- have some faith. They'll regulate themselves, don't ya know? /sarcasm

[leesa]

21. This is a joke, right? Man the people in this administration are

SICK.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Poor, poor "industry"!! They haven't been generating nearly...

...enough profits, have they?

[0rganism]

25. Is that even possible? Could they have yet more voice than now?

Come ON! With all the welcome lobbyists and back-door action the industrial magnates receive with this administration, it's a wonder they don't just move in to the white house permanently, and maybe open a maquiladora on the front lawn.

What a joke.

Even the regulations that remain aren't enforced. :crazy:

[PATRICK]

27. Verbal Crystallnacht?

Not sure of the spelling. My eardrums are shattered now. I can't seem to hear any reasonable opposition from corporate news.

[Guaranteed]

29. This is scary as hell.

The United States is being destroyed before our very eyes.

[shanti]

43. of course you don't

because the media is part of the problem!

[dusty64]

28. They've had the ONLY voice

since our coup. The government is by the corporations, for the corporations and they're STILL not happy. Why don't we just have corporations decide our elections, wait they already do.

[blindpig]

31. looks like it's time to finish gutting

the Endangered Species Act

[Oggy]

32. The US has really gone mad

The more I read the more I worry for you all. I would offer you all a place over here in the UK, but I think we are Austria to your Germany.

[Guaranteed]

33. There is going to be a mass exodus soon enough.

I'm leaving. That's it. These people are insane.

[leftchick]

37. me too...

If 2004 turns into another selection I am outa here. I will not let my boys grow up to be aWol*s cannon fodder....

[kodi]

34. moving from govt chartered corporations to corporate chartered govt.

yeah, that's the ticket.

[salin]

35. Bet the give more weight to the voices of those industry players

who are outsourcing rather than to those who are successful with US based labor. Why? Because that is who gives the MONEY. So once again the bush policies that are likely to be tried to push through congress are - in my predictions - will probably give "incentives" (re: tax cuts) to industry - but with NO ties so that those who continue to ship jobs overseas will benefit as much as those who don't - giving no incentive to find ways to keep jobs in the US. Just like they have done with other policies - such as the Medicare "prescription drug discount" program... where companies participating in this interim program (before the full program takes hold) are allowed to use purchasing power to negotiate down costs (note that MEDICARE in the final program is NOT allowed to do this) - but that there are NO mandated savings that need to be passed on to the consumers. And just like another provision in the MEDICARE bill that gives "incentives" (BIG $) to companies to continue health insurance coverage of retirees... BUT gives the money whether or not the company dumps or retains retiree health care coverage.

[0007]

38. A general strike would bring about a voice that could be heard

You will go back to work
or you can go to jail

Commerce Secretary Donald Evans is as big a joke as junior

[Bandit]

39. As if Haliburton didn't already have a big voice or Enron

Ask Cheney who wrote the energy policy of this administration.

[skippysmom]

40. because their voices were being silenced?

i swear, up is down, and down is up in this country nowadays...

[jpak]

41. The Council of Corporate Cronies

Writing up their special interest legislaton and passing it to the Republikin Kongress for a swift rubber stamp.

They aren't even hiding this any more.

The coup is complete.

[BadGimp]

44. Hoist the new American Flag

now everyone pledge allegience....