G.E. World’s 6th Largest Corporation Unmasked as Obama Front Group

I love this ad, thanks for posting it, Mike. And, thanks to the League of American Voters!!

On another note, are you o.k. with the hurricane flying by near you?? Or, is it not really affecting you? I’ve been concerned about you, so just wanted to know!

Now back to the regular programming…

N Carolina getting some needed rain.

We are waiting for the local news to tell us how this storm is Mother
Nature weeping for the loss of Ted Kennedy.

GE has also been involved in military defense and space program contracts — even before its strong alliance with the JFK administration.

@Mike’s America:
Oh, good. Glad to hear you are A-OK!

As a matter of fact, GE has a net zero smart grid home prototype. I actually support the idea of upgrading individual homes to be energy self sufficient over replacing massive, expensive grids with alternative energy sources. If homes could be retrofitted individually, and affordably, we wouldn’t have to do whit to the grids.

Dunno, maybe it’s being the daughter of a long time GE employee, plus my penchant for Nipper working for JVC so many years as well…. but I rather like GE and it’s innovations in many arenas.

O’Reilly I’ll skip. Gets on my nerves anymore, and really poor at his research. Beck’s a regular with me. I’ve seen his stuff on this. I also saw Beck try to get his very conservative guests to agree with him on the “root of healthcare”, Goolsby and the evil brother Emanuel…. which they didn’t. It was not a good segment for Glenn… that one. Kinda blew his little tree drawing on the blackboard. Not that I don’t agree basically with Glenn on many things. Let’s just say we often come to the same conclusion, but via a different path.

So no, Mike. I don’t think GE’s “working hand in glove with the Obama Administration” with political subterfuge… at least in the way you infer. If you think the refusal to run this ad is your proof, along with Immelt’s presence on the very ignored Economic Recovery Advisory Board, then how would you explain ABC doing the same, yet not being owned by GE?

And about Immelt and the ERAB… they can’t get the big zero’s big ears for a moment, and there’s some that are *very* pissed about that. Paul Volcker, the panels head, most notably. In fact, Volcker and Summers were going head to head about delays Summers caused in spring, and the ERAB didn’t even hold their first formal meeting until May. There’s also some very good people on that board… Volcker is among the tops of them. No liberal nanny big government type is he.

Problem is, they are merely WH yard ornaments… there for “show”, and to make the conservatives happy the Zero has a 2nd string of advisors that include some conservative thinkers. Too bad they won’t heed his/their advice. Looks good on paper, but they are powerless and.. yes, I said it.. ignored.

Despite the above, what I *do* think is that GE is simply taking care of business.. but not necessarily by refusing to run ads. That’s a bit overt, don’t you think? Too risky politically for a company that traditionally is right down the middle of the road in their political support. They most certainly know that all pundits and bloggers would jump on the refusal to run the ads.

GE is in the media business, as well as the energy business, as well as the… well, you get the drift. All “evil big corporations” push money to politicians, and generally to both sides. That’s why you see that Bush was also a serious benefactor from GE. Was he “in bed” and “working hand in glove” with Dubya too? If it’s yes to the 0 admin, it’s also yes to the W admin.

For a bit of history, per OpenSecrets 2008 records, GE was heavily investing in the Dems and Obama. Everyone wants to back a winner and everyone also knew that it was uphill for GOP, and especially uphill with McCain as the GOP candidate. Big surprise, eh?

But when you look at 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006, you’ll see that for most of all years, they were invested more in the GOP (save one.. 2004 where it was a closer, but still favored GOP)

i.e. they piled their cash behind Bush re’election, and only gave Kerry Senate campaign cash. They gave only a token amount to Howard Dean for President during that primary.

It comes down to this, Mike. I’m not much of a “big corporation” basher… no matter which side of the aisle they tend to favor. I don’t think you’ve ever seen me attack big business here… nor are you likely too unless they are pure corruption. (ACORN comes to mind, but they are a non-profit piece of scum).

But reality dictates big corporations generally favor the side of the aisle that’s in power, or most likely to obtain power. They are in business to *stay* in business. Watch the winds shift, and then watch their money follow. They’re a dying breed, along with evil big oil and the evil rich people. Obama’s American doesn’t allow a future for corporate American. And until Obama and his anti-capitalist buds can destroy corporate America, he suckles at their breasts for cash… as long as that suckling also nurtures the company. Otherwise they turn on him. In this case, GE stands to gain from energy since they’re on that path anyway, and the Obama admin wants to give them cash. But then, he’d give them cash anyway as a heavy hitter company in that genre.

So nope… don’t take the bait on this one. You won’t coax me into bashing evil corporate America. But very nice presentation. :0)

Mike, I did not call Immelt specificially a “conservative yard ornament”. I called the entire 2nd string panel a “yard ornament” with a few “conservatives” on it… most notably their council head, Paul Volcker.

The rest? Believe what you like.

GE is on the road to getting some new contracts in Russia…Seems they were held up for a while, till ohhh, last week or so.

-I worked for GE as a contractor for a couple of years. (Nuke research in San Jose CA) I liked it a lot.