GE CEO: Bernie Sanders says we’re ‘destroying the moral fabric’ of America. He’s wrong.
GE CEO: Bernie Sanders says we’re ‘destroying the moral fabric’ of America. He’s wrong.
"We at GE were interested to read comments Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who told the New York Daily News editorial board that GE is among the companies that are supposedly “destroying the moral fabric” of America. The senator had been asked to cite examples of corporate greed at its worst. Somehow that got him to talking about us.
GE has been in business for 124 years, and we’ve never been a big hit with socialists. We create wealth and jobs, instead of just calling for them in speeches. We take risks, invest, innovate and produce in ways that today sustain 125,000 U.S. jobs. Our engineers innovate every day to build hardware and software solutions that meet real-world challenges. Our employees are proud of our company. I meet second- and third-generation employees whenever I travel across the country. I am one myself. Our suppliers and partners are proud of our company. Our communities are proud of our company. Our pride, history and hard work are real — the moral fabric of America.
The senator has never bothered to stop by our aviation plant in Rutland, Vt. We’ve been investing heavily (some $100 million in recent years), hiring and turning out some of the world’s finest jet-engine components in Vermont since the 1950s. The plant employs more than 1,000 people who are very good at what they do. It’s a picture of first-rate jobs with high wages, advanced manufacturing in a vital industry — how things look when American workers are competing and winning — and Vermont’s junior senator is always welcome to come by for a tour. "
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ge-ceo-bernie-sanders-says-were-destroying-the-moral-fabric-of-america-hes-wrong/2016/04/06/8499bc8c-fc23-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html
I think the most significant line from what immelt said was:
"The senator has never bothered to stop by our aviation plant in Rutland, Vt."
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...most of his adult life and pretty much no-one has given him any mind until the last few years. He preached the same doom long before NAFTA, Bill Clinton's successful two-term run, and the Dodd-Frank Act replaced the repealed part of Glass-Steagall. He was/is no prophet, never-the-less the economic collapse of 2008 and the rise of ISIL just happened to give his doom and gloom stump speeches some oxygen at long last. He finally found his niche audience of politically naive, idealistic millennials and disgruntled libertarians to hand him a larger soapbox and a microphone (as well as lots of money), and unfortunately at the same time we need to get Hillary Clinton elected.
...except when his own bad decisions are involved, such as with taking funding for his Senate run from the NRA and then voting in their favor multiple times; and trying to keep his involvement with the choice to dump low-level radiation right next to a town of poor minority members buried; and his lame excuses for voting against the auto bailout, the Amber Alert system, the tax relief for married couples which would have helped low and middle income Americans, his anti-immigration vote, and numerous pro-war votes over the years; and his vote to support the Commodity Futures Modernization Act which weakened Wall Street regulations, and on and on.
I can't imagine that would make those who have jobs there very happy.
There's good and bad about corps.. you can't just demonize everything like berni does without some pushback.
Thank you for this, stillone~
Your link doesn't work for me..
