GE Continues to Journey with Obama into Facism

Facism - the joining of corporate and government interests. State controlled economy. Hmmm.

More rent seeking by GE. GE has now hired Linda Daschle as a lobbyist. Linda Daschle is the wife of Tom Daschle, the former Senate Majority Leader and Obama's first pick as HHS Secretary. GE was one of Obama's top 20 sources of corporate funds in 2008.

Great comments at the link. Such as this one from someone named Rick Caird: "GE has become the perfect example of a so called capitalistic company engaging in pure rent seeking. They want Congressional subsidies for things like wind mills and others of their product lines. You mention MSNBC as being heavily skewed left, but we also see John Harwood at NBC who needs to get a room every time he talks about Obama. Then, there is the censoring at CNBC. Dylan Rattigan is gone after a rant on the government funded payouts by AIG to the the likes of Goldman and foreign banks. Santelli has been muzzled after his rant suggesting tea parties. GE is a prime example of a rent seeking company that should not be allowed to own media companies to pursue its rent seeking. Rick"

Sundae, Bloody Sundae

While demonstrators in Tehran are gunned down by the forces of the "Supreme Leader", Obama ponders his most important decision of the day (Sunday, June 21st, 2009)

"I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away!

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long?
How long?

‘Cause tonight…we can be as one
Tonight…
Broken bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end streets
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts back up against the wall!"
-U2

Obama Got His 3am Phone Call

And the phone was off the hook. Or maybe he just voted present. Just a few short weeks after extending an open hand to the oppressive regime in Iran, Obama's 3am phone call came in the form of a stolen election there. Did his administration issue a statement supporting democracy? Supporting the people in the streets? No. So, then, it must have accepted the legitimacy of the elections. Well, it didn't do that either. It just voted "present."

GE enables Obama's Journey into Statism

Americas journey into statism is being led by GE, the conglomerate that has its own huge media arm. GE is using its media might to stifle criticism of its industrial policies, while at the same time using its media power to promote Obama administration policies that will directly benefit GE, such as government-managed healthcare, cap-and-trade, and other energy mandates.

Read the history of facsism and you will see that this sort of progressive government/corporate collaboration was the cornerstone of those systems (which were leftist systems that used corporations to their benefit as opposed to communism that dissolved corporations).

See this link to see what GE and Jeff Immelt have been up to lately.

Look at What Obama's Stimulus Has Gotten Us So Far

Innocent Bystanders has been tracking actual unemployment data against the promises the Obama administration made when they justified the stimulus package. Remember, Congress had to pass it so quickly they had no time to read it. It was a crisis. Yeah, right.

No More Apologies

From Michael Ramirez