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malaise

(269,022 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2020, 10:56 AM Mar 2020

The only thing I remember about Jack Welsh was when he publicly questioned

President Obama's job numbers

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-welch-obama-jobs-report-numbers-romney-2012-10
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JACK WELCH: Obama Is Manipulating The Jobs Numbers Because His Debate Performance Was Awful
Brett LoGiurato Oct 5, 2012, 7:40 AM
Former GE CEO Jack Welch's reaction to non-farm payrolls adding 114,000 new jobs in September and the unemployment rate falling to 7.8 percent:

Looks like Welch already was predicting this last night:

Jack Welch Obama

The Department of Labor said that unemployment fell 0.3 percent because of a total employment gain of 873,000, the most since 1983. The number of unemployed, meanwhile, fell 456,000 in September.

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no mourning here - that is all.

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The only thing I remember about Jack Welsh was when he publicly questioned (Original Post) malaise Mar 2020 OP

Same here. And nary a whimper out of him about trumps thousands of lies. brush Mar 2020 #1

Yep malaise Mar 2020 #2

I seem to remember snowybirdie Mar 2020 #3

Hehehehe malaise Mar 2020 #4

He was a greedy piece of shit who destroyed American manufacturing and helped usher in Reaganism. dalton99a Mar 2020 #5

Adding this link for David Cay Johnson's tweet malaise Mar 2020 #11

He put GWB's cousin on air to call the 2000 election for Bush UpInArms Mar 2020 #6

Now that you say it malaise Mar 2020 #7

+1 dalton99a Mar 2020 #8

He was Mister G.E., no? Sugar daddy to RUSSERT and BARNICLE. UTUSN Mar 2020 #9

ROFL malaise Mar 2020 #10

Don't forget his barge. moondust Mar 2020 #12

One more greedy neo-liberal malaise Mar 2020 #13

brush

(53,782 posts)

1. Same here. And nary a whimper out of him about trumps thousands of lies.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:15 AM

Mar 2020

malaise

(269,022 posts)

2. Yep

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:35 AM

Mar 2020

They never fail to expose themselves.

snowybirdie

(5,227 posts)

3. I seem to remember

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:45 AM

Mar 2020

that after he met a young cute reporter, he left his old wife and married Susie. So predictable in a successful, old millionaire.

malaise

(269,022 posts)

4. Hehehehe

Reply to snowybirdie (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:48 AM

Mar 2020

Did not know that

dalton99a

(81,513 posts)

5. He was a greedy piece of shit who destroyed American manufacturing and helped usher in Reaganism.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:51 AM

Mar 2020

malaise

(269,022 posts)

11. Adding this link for David Cay Johnson's tweet

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 12:27 PM

Mar 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213036264#post3

David Cay Johnston
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@DavidCayJ
Jack Welch's death is unfortunate. Will obits be rounded or perpetuate myth-making?

Welch cut R&D, manipulated SEC & tax reports, left a mess from which GE & shareholders have never recovered. He gave up ~$70m retirement perks only after I exposed their economics in 2012.

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UpInArms

(51,284 posts)

6. He put GWB's cousin on air to call the 2000 election for Bush

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:56 AM

Mar 2020

Dirty dirty dirty

malaise

(269,022 posts)

7. Now that you say it

Reply to UpInArms (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 11:58 AM

Mar 2020

I do remember that

dalton99a

(81,513 posts)

8. +1

Reply to UpInArms (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 12:00 PM

Mar 2020

UTUSN

(70,700 posts)

9. He was Mister G.E., no? Sugar daddy to RUSSERT and BARNICLE.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 12:08 PM

Mar 2020

G.E. Russert, he of pinning a Shrub W. campaign button inside his lapel while yukking it up with WELCH. And plagiarist BARNICLE got a career resusitated somehow during WELCH's reign. I remember the beginnings of the Morning Scabs show when BARNICLE showed some shame getting e-mails with the word "plagiarist" in them (speaking for a friend). But now he is totally rehabilitated and treated (by Scabs & Mika Mouse) as a venerable and real journalist.

malaise

(269,022 posts)

10. ROFL

Reply to UTUSN (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 12:11 PM

Mar 2020

Amazing they they sanitize one another

moondust

(19,986 posts)

12. Don't forget his barge.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 01:56 PM

Mar 2020

General Electric’s former CEO Jack Welch is one of the great economic royalists of the modern day. He is the guy who said the businessman’s dream is to “have every plant you own on a barge” — so that the plant can move away anytime workers demand better wages, working conditions or environmental standards.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/from-jack-welchs-screeds_b_98072

Ronald Reagan developed a vision of America during his GE years. Of course his "vision" was to use government to screw working people so that fat cats could get much fatter without lifting a finger.

Jack Welch was Chairman and CEO of Reagan's old company GE throughout the Reagan administration in the 80s. Being like-minded, I've always assumed he and Reagan traded notes on how to more effectively screw working people to benefit those who least needed the help. I consider it the beginning of today's massive global inequality.

malaise

(269,022 posts)

13. One more greedy neo-liberal

Reply to moondust (Reply #12)

Mon Mar 2, 2020, 02:58 PM

Mar 2020

All for me and yet in the end we all die and not one of us can take any of it with us.

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