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2011-11-14 Home Front: Politix

B.O.: U.S. Gotten a Bit "Lazy" on Attracting Businesses

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

This is kind of fun.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-11-14 02:15|| 2011-11-14 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Because of our federalist system, sometimes a foreign investor comes in and they've got to navigate not only federal rules, but they've also got to navigate state and local governments that may have their own sets of interests

One track mind.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-14 03:48|| 2011-11-14 03:48|| Front Page Top

#3 B.O.: U.S. Gotten a Bit "Lazy" on Attracting Businesses

Translation - It looks like the local shills have dried up for graft, we need some new meat to shake down.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-14 08:14|| 2011-11-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Certainly he was referring to laziness induced by the demands of labor union leaders..

Posted by American Delight 2011-11-14 08:14|| http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/ 2011-11-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 No, the U.S. has gotten a bit "Communist" in demonizing business.

When (communist) China is more business friendly than the U.S. you know we have a problem.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-11-14 08:40|| 2011-11-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Typical of an individual who has never really occupied a real job, smoked pot and snorted cocain "when ever I could afford it" (Dreams of My Father book he wrote) as part of the Choom Gang in high school. A loser is one who tries to bring everyone DOWN to his level.

Posted by Daffy Bucket4045 2011-11-14 10:12|| 2011-11-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 disgusting little man.

Posted by whatadeal 2011-11-14 11:11|| 2011-11-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Lazy? No.

Gotten to aggressive in bending businesses over and raping them with taxes and regulations? Yes.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-11-14 11:21|| 2011-11-14 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The world recovery starts with us, so send your business to the lazy, unexceptional, overpriced USA labor where my government is so large nobody knows what it can, cannot, or will do.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-14 14:01|| 2011-11-14 14:01|| Front Page Top

#10 How many times did Obama vote "present" while a Congressman? How many times has he been on vacation? How many times does he play basketball? How many times has he golfed? Talk about lazy.

Nevermind. We are better off when he goes on vacation or goes golfing.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-14 15:58|| 2011-11-14 15:58|| Front Page Top

#11 But we've been a little bit lazy,"

And then he went golfing.

There's another salient quote in this article that may point to his real beef:

"Because of our federalist system, sometimes a foreign investor comes in and they've got to navigate not only federal rules, but they've also got to navigate state and local governments that may have their own sets of interests..."

Darn that federalist system!

If only Obama cronies could run everything!

Posted by charger 2011-11-14 21:21|| 2011-11-14 21:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Funny, Germany's federalist system doesn't seem to have posed much of an obstacle at all. It's the heavy-handed top-down regulatory welfare state that gunks up the gears.

But surely there are no parallels.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-11-14 22:06|| 2011-11-14 22:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Queerly enough, a number of Indian companies have recently begun outsourcing to the U.S.... Then there were all the Japanese car companies which outsourced production to the U.S., and I think some German car company or other -- I'm afraid I have no head for such things.

We won't even discuss how many people we all know who work 80+ hour weeks.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-14 23:13|| 2011-11-14 23:13|| Front Page Top

#14 TW, most of that was pre-Obama.

Here's a tally that calculates at least 2,676,000 jobs destroyed or prevented by Obama administration policies.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-11-14 23:29|| 2011-11-14 23:29|| Front Page Top

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