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| B.O.: U.S. Gotten a Bit "Lazy" on Attracting Businesses |
| 2011-11-14 |
| President B.O. said that the United States has gotten a "little bit lazy" when it comes to bringing in new businesses in to the states. He made the comments at a CEO summit as part of the APEC conference Saturday, when asked by Boeing CEO James McNerney about looking at the world from a Chinese perspective and what they might consider as impediments to investing. Obama said it's important to remember that the U.S. is still the largest receiver of foreign investment in the world and things like stability, openness and innovative free market culture are attractive. He also said there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity - like stability, openness, our innovative free market culture. "But we've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We've kind of taken for granted -- well, people will want to come here and we aren't out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America, Obama said. He then went on to say things his administration has done like setting up Select USA that organizes government agencies in an attempt to make it easier for foreign investors to set up a plant in the U.S. "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. Being able to create if not a one-stop shop, then at least no more than a couple of stops for people to be able to come into the United States and make investments, that's something that we want to encourage," Obama said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #7 disgusting little man. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2011-11-14 11:11 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4 Certainly he was referring to laziness induced by the demands of labor union leaders.. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2011-11-14 08:14 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1 This is kind of fun. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-11-14 02:15 |