White House: Give Industry Greater Voice

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a new presidential council to give U.S. companies a greater voice in government decisions and making other recommendations aimed at bolstering the ailing manufacturing sector.

The administration's report on manufacturing says the Treasury Department (news - web sites) should study how to make tax laws less complex and costly for companies to comply with. Also, the White House budget office should conduct a government-wide review of regulations to assess their impact on U.S. manufacturers.

The long-awaited report was to be made public Friday during a visit by Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland, a successful midsize company that makes sophisticated welding equipment.




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The United Corporations of America

'cept its already taken.

WHO receives all the big tax breaks? Of course it isn't the working class!

JEEZ, they already have the ONLY voice!

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taxes at the same time. Their shamlessness is an absolute embarrassment. If these mother truckers get 4 more years, the death of the american dream will be right around the corner.

as if industry didn't ALREADY have too much of a voice!!!

:wtf:

This is getting really, really scary.

If he gets re-elected, we're going to have to leave.

Call it what ya what….it’s still dick’s group with maybe new presidential rules for tighter secrecy :eyes:

As if theyre not running his admin now..

are tex cuts and deregulation, as if THAT'S the problem...

CEO salaries have gone up hundreds of times higher than employee wages, and shareholders are more important than the product, the workers, or the customers, but the reason we're sucking is because of regulations and taxes?

If that's the case, why were these industries doing so well before?

do you think they will pass that savings on to you and me? Fuck no, once Bush's so-called immigration plan kicks in, it will be legal for factories to hire people for $10 a day... the kind of job Americans "won't do"

:puke:

unka dick, the snarly one, hasn't told him yet.

Sure, don't let ethics get in the way

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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And no more shitty unions? And abolish the Child Labor Laws. Three day vacations once a year with no pay. Holidays will be treated like an ordinary work day.

This should bring up junior's poll numbers.

The Fourth Reich is alive and well, and YOU are to be its slaves!

"Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the state."
~U.S. Army: Army Talk, Orientation Fact Sheet 64, March 24, 1945.

"Fascism: a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
American Heritage Dictionary (an older edition)

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
~Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator of Italy

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The heart and soul of fascism was the corporative state.”
~James B. Whisker

On edit: Emphasis.

Bush really has found the pulse of what's wrong with the economy.

It is the 7 headed dragon (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rummy, Ashcroft, Ridge). Rove, of course, is Satan.

Like we aren't already a fascist state?
We've already got Exxon, Enron and Shell writing up our energy policy for invisible Dick AND directing foreign policy in the Middle East.
When will this nightmare end?

Yes, it's laughable to suggest that business interests don't have a large enough voice in government (they do have the White House, the House, and Senate, right?).

Something good could come about: The report restates a number of initiatives the administration has already announced. Those include reorganizing the Commerce Department to place more emphasis on penalizing unfair trade practices and promoting U.S. exports.

If Bush* would ever grow a pair and stand up to China's unfair trade practices (floating the yuan in particular), we might not be in such bad shape economically and job-wise.

Turnip truck?

the collaboration of political administration and corporations?? Maybe my dictionary is a bit old and the new ones are more acceptably Orwellian.

the definition was promptly changed.

Geez- have some faith. They'll regulate themselves, don't ya know? /sarcasm

SICK.

...enough profits, have they?

Come ON! With all the welcome lobbyists and back-door action the industrial magnates receive with this administration, it's a wonder they don't just move in to the white house permanently, and maybe open a maquiladora on the front lawn.

What a joke.

Even the regulations that remain aren't enforced. :crazy:

Not sure of the spelling. My eardrums are shattered now. I can't seem to hear any reasonable opposition from corporate news.

The United States is being destroyed before our very eyes.

because the media is part of the problem!

since our coup. The government is by the corporations, for the corporations and they're STILL not happy. Why don't we just have corporations decide our elections, wait they already do.

the Endangered Species Act

The more I read the more I worry for you all. I would offer you all a place over here in the UK, but I think we are Austria to your Germany.

I'm leaving. That's it. These people are insane.

If 2004 turns into another selection I am outa here. I will not let my boys grow up to be aWol*s cannon fodder....

yeah, that's the ticket.

who are outsourcing rather than to those who are successful with US based labor. Why? Because that is who gives the MONEY. So once again the bush policies that are likely to be tried to push through congress are - in my predictions - will probably give "incentives" (re: tax cuts) to industry - but with NO ties so that those who continue to ship jobs overseas will benefit as much as those who don't - giving no incentive to find ways to keep jobs in the US. Just like they have done with other policies - such as the Medicare "prescription drug discount" program... where companies participating in this interim program (before the full program takes hold) are allowed to use purchasing power to negotiate down costs (note that MEDICARE in the final program is NOT allowed to do this) - but that there are NO mandated savings that need to be passed on to the consumers. And just like another provision in the MEDICARE bill that gives "incentives" (BIG $) to companies to continue health insurance coverage of retirees... BUT gives the money whether or not the company dumps or retains retiree health care coverage.

Ask Cheney who wrote the energy policy of this administration.

i swear, up is down, and down is up in this country nowadays...

Writing up their special interest legislaton and passing it to the Republikin Kongress for a swift rubber stamp.

They aren't even hiding this any more.

The coup is complete.

now everyone pledge allegience....