Duh, WINNING!
Recall the story posted here the other day about Wynn Resorts CEO’s epic rant that stemmed from his dissatisfaction with Obama’s failed economic policies? Did it seem like something out of the ordinary to you? I mean, generally business leaders tend towards being apolitical; especially since the modern political left in America are devotees of the notion that, “the political is personal”, and will call for a boycott of any company which they decide isn’t doing business or comporting themselves in the “correct” manner in a proverbial New York second.
That’s what makes the statements of some major US CEOs recounted in this article from IBD all that more interesting. While not as long and complete as Wynn’s rant, they definitely don’t beat around the bush:
-3M’s George Buckley, who blasted Obama last February as anti-business. “We know what his instincts are,” Buckley said. “We’ve got a real choice between manufacturing in Canada or Mexico — which tends to be more pro-business — and America,” he told the Financial Times.
-Boeing’s Jim McNerney, who in the Wall Street Journal last May called Obama’s handpicked National Labor Relations Board’s suit against his company a “fundamental assault on the capitalist principles that have sustained America’s competitiveness since it became the world’s largest economy nearly 140 years ago.”
-Intel’s Paul Otellini, who told CNET last August that the U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business that there is likely to be “an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth, much like we’re seeing today in Europe — this is the bitter truth.”
-Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who observed to radio host Hugh Hewitt last month that Obama “never had to make payroll,” that “nobody has ever created a job in this administration” and that the president is “surrounded by college professors.”
There’s more. As we often say, read the whole thing…
It’s interesting to me how executives are just now starting to speak out against Obama’s failed economic policies. And they’re not all “Knucke-Dragging, Reich-Wingahz” by any stretch; Wynn, for instance, is a Democrat who supported Harry Reid’s re-election. Part of it may be the usual and customary reluctance to alienate potential customers, as I mentioned earlier. But it may be that the weight of these past few years, coupled with the uncertainty about what lies ahead, has finally convinced them that Obama is not the one they were waiting for. Of course, they might have realized this before now if they’d chosen to listen to the opinions of former GE CEO Jack Welch, who hasn’t minced words about the disastrous nature of Obamanomics and the O!ministration’s hostility to business.
Not to be an I told you so, or anything, but many of these same individuals backed Obama with both the weight of their opinions as well as their cash donations in 2008. My advice to them this time around would simply be not to…
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me…
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
