Leaked e-mail shows how GE puts the government to work for GE
By: Timothy P. Carney
“The intersection between GE’s interests and government action is clearer than ever,” General Electric Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in an Aug. 19 e-mail to colleagues.
Rice was calling on his co-workers to join the General Electric Political Action Committee. “GEPAC is an important tool that enables GE employees to collectively help support candidates who share the values and goals of GE.”
The full letter suggests that “share the values and goals of GE” really means “support policies that profit the company.”
Steve Milloy, a pro-free market investor at the Free Enterprise Action Fund, obtained this e-mail and says it reveals General Electric for what it really is. “GE is lobbying to become the biggest rent seeker this country has ever seen,” Milloy told this column. Rent seeking is using government legislation or regulation to generate private profits the free market wouldn’t provide.
“On climate change,” Rice wrote, “we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/How-GE-puts-the-government-to-work-for-GE-8154266-54820577.html
This week we just replaced our 3 yr. old kitchen appliances with new ones that AREN’T GE.
The builder-installed GE’s are a crappy quality, and they’re from a corrupt company.
I have plenty of things I can spend money on, but dumping GE is PRICELESS!!!!
These fools think they will be carried along with this little colored guy and his bullshit plans. They will go down in flames just like he will. The one big difference between the United States and other countries who have had other shitheads try and take them over is that we Americans have always been totally free. It’s born into us and we will fight to defend that right! So keep on with your bullshit. You’re loosing viewers, customers and when the stupid little colored guy is out of office you won’t have a pot to piss in.
buddha boy who is stophate pretending to be some buddha fuck tard who is copy and pasting Christian quotes will save them with his pretend magic carpet and lego set
never fear, pretend boy is near!!!
I just ran downstairs to make sure we don’t have a GE refrigerator!!! We don’t….thank God!!!
I predict that GE will go out of business within 2 years. Laugh if you like, but I bet they will. Because of this kissing ass to a fascist government and a America hating, ex(?) crack and pot smoking, money laundering, professional con man, homo, half white muslim fake president!!!!!
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believe it or not, I never liked or owned a GE product
I know why their kissing such ass though. GE holds some huge government contracts
not because they make a good product, but because they have the softest lips to kiss that ass with
Good call Live Oak *High Fives ya*!
Thanks Kristy…..we’ll see if I’m right, but I think I am. Anyone who kisses ass to this fascism is history. I’m keeping track.
Sears Kenmore appliances were always superior over GE anyway.
GE sucks big times! Don’t buy GE appliances because Jeff Immelt wants to put the appliances and security business on the market! Actually, these are not GE products…they’re made in China or India (cheap labor) and GE uses their logo! Jeff Immelt is shipping all USA work to China and India cuz of cheap labor. On a email a few months ago…Jeff Immelt stated that in India employees are high educated with cheap hourly rate…I guess he misses his bonus…cheap labor!
GE licks Obama so they can get away with this Go Green energy BS! It’s a bunch of BS and nothing more!
GE laid off 11,000 employees worldwide, and Jeff Immelt want to shrink GE Capital to 30%! What happen…all those wonderful pitches at your news conferences to the world anit working now!
jeff immelt,and ralf zucker are unamerican traitors and i will not buy a light bulb if ge is on the label. these jerks keep dealing with iran,and other enemys to us.
live oak,cuss,frosteetoes,USAresident,kristy,katy,good to find you on a post where you havent had to put up with nutcases yet.
i still cannot figure out how obama got the arrogant attitude,it was his MAMA that got her picture on that pancake box.
Remember when msnbc did that big report on micHELLe obastard and his/her/its organic garden which turned out to be a toxic sewage dump that cost tax payers shit loads of money “mind the pun” to clean up?
Well he/she/its at it again looking for a new spot to try and make another organic garden. These socialist communist just never stop…
i think id enjoy planting her in a garden. and the rest of her family. think how much better off the world would be.
if we did that, youd have better luck growing fruit trees in the middle of the desert salt mines then where they would be planted.
they are all that toxic.
Damn!! I was wondering what happened to micHELLe! Looks like it got a haircut!!
Cuss,
i think they should let the hair grow long,and make this ugly bitch walk on all fours,so hair hides that face.