Speaking of disingenuous, remember General Eclectic's CEO , Jeffery Immelt, sitting on Obama's 'jobs board' claiming they will create thousand, if not millions of new jobs as the 'stimulus' of $billions of tax dollars were spent? Remember the 'shovel ready jobs' BS that even Obama later said that didn't work. Really? Who knew?
Well we all know how that worked out, the billions of dollars was spent but few jobs were ever created, and as a result of this failure. GE sent more then 4000 jobs over seas because of his failure.
But maybe he, GE's president didn't fail, maybe his sitting next to Obama was just for show and access? dah - do ya' think? Corporate cronyism at it's worst.
General Electric's Corporate Tantrum
Source: Veronique De Rugy, "GE Resorts to Bullying Congress to Keep its Subsidies," Investor's Business Daily, September 23, 2015.
September 30, 2015
In June, a revolt against the unhealthy marriage between the government and large corporations put the mother of all crony programs, the Ex-Im Bank, in liquidation. Being the second-largest beneficiary of the bank's largesse and one of the 10 mega-corporations collecting 64% of its overall activities, General Electric (GE) is upset. It wasted millions of dollars in lobbying, yet Congress still cut off its access to cheap loans.
The idea that there is no export financing without Ex-Im is ludicrous. Over 98% of U.S. exports take place without any help from Ex-Im -- proving that export financing is readily available, even for General Electric. General Electric Capital Corporation holds assets of $499 billion and posted net income of $7 billion last year. Lending to General Electric is a pretty safe bet considering that the company has a market cap of $255 billion and annual revenues of $149 billion.
General Electric is threatening to move 500 jobs outside the United States, 400 of which could go to France. It is quite obvious that the French jobs have nothing to do with the demise of Ex-Im. As Tim Carney at the Washington Examiner reports, GE had already promised the French government that it would create 1,000 jobs there in exchange for approving a merger with French power giant Alstom. In other words, blaming Ex-Im for the possible job creation in France is disingenuous.
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