There's a clip of that meeting described in this report. Room full of CEOs asked

specifically about it.

Companies including Cisco, Pfizer, Coca-Cola and Amgen have said that the gains from corporate tax cuts will go to shareholders.
When CEOs were asked at a Wall Street Journal event to raise their hands, “If the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment — your company’s investment, capital investment,” few raised their hands.
White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn asked “Why aren’t the other hands up?” The hands weren’t up because the gains from corporate tax cuts will go to shareholders, not workers.

Here again, the Democrats are really missing the boat. AGAIN. There's a clip of this. It should be airing in campaign commercials from coast-to-coast. RIGHT NOW. In the biggest commercial ad buy they've made in a year. From the horses' mouths (and no raised hands).

Welcome to DU, djacq!

Californian here. It does allow one to sleep a little easier at night, doesn't it!

I've been watching him for awhile now.

It'd be nice to have another Kennedy in the White House. He channels that same spirit. He's the grandson of Bobby Kennedy. I remember how he described the Affordable Care Act "this is how we take care of one another." Nine words, spoken so earnestly and with such sincerity, and they sum up everything our loftier more genuinely patriotic selves stand for, as well as the fundamentals Jesus taught us. I'm tremendously impressed with him.

Indeed. If they refuse to do anything about him, then I don't care how "in shit up to our eyeballs"

they are. They CAN do something about it if they really hate this. THEY have both houses of Congress, and subpoena power, and the ability to set the agenda. Otherwise, talk is cheap.

Bienvenue a DU, Orange Free State!

These are very weird times. I shake my head in increasing disgust every day. And the next day it grows steadily worse. Wonder when we get to the guillotine phase, and what (or who) that guillotine will be?

Seems to me that's the one requirement for voting GOP. You have to be stupid.

They want you that way. That's why they're not investing in our schools.

Never forget this telling quote attributed to kkkarl rove: "too much education is not necessarily a good thing." That's because he recognized that the more highly educated people are, the more they tend to be liberal and vote for Democrats.

Here's a link to a handy little graph, naming names and numbers

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."

I like that graphic in your sig line, 2naSalit!

Mind if I steal it?

No freakin' kidding!

I had an argument at a protest rally years ago with a Green Party woman pushing Exercise-In-Futility #52,489, Peter Camejo. I tried in vain to explain to her that this was throwing her vote away on yet another Can't-Possibly-Win. Not to mention throwing her vote away so the bad guy (republi-CON) can end up with an unearned win. She would NOT hear me. She kept insisting - "WE have to SEND a MESSAGE!!!!"

Aw for Pete's Fucking Sake... NOBODY'S gonna give a freakin' damn about your "message." They're certainly not going to get the "message" you assumed you'd be sending. All they're ever gonna do is laugh and sneer at your "message," and clink their filled champagne glasses together as they watch the GOP chalk up another win and a Democrat check off another loss - when YOUR vote and the other third-party votes could have helped push the Democrat over the finish line before the CON could get there. The Green Party dingdongs and the Independent dingdongs and the Peace & Freedom dingdongs and all the rest of 'em just don't get it. All they EVER "succeed" in doing is pushing the candidate who'll do the least for them and their issues into another default win. If they all ever got some sense into their addled little pie-in-the-sky rainbow-unicorn brains, they'd merge with the one single party that ever has any chance to keep the GOP out of power. And that's the Democrats. Like it or not. There's just one choice.

The only "message" you wind up sending if you vote third party is "Hi! I'm a CHUMP!"

All the wishing and hoping that "it'll be different this time!" is nothing more than what the Blues Brothers used to refer to as a "wish sandwich": you have two pieces of bread, and you WISH you had some meat.