Obama names Facebook, Intel and Comcast execs to new jobs council

[Bardley]

President Obama named Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, venture capitalist John Doerr and Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts to his council on jobs and competitiveness, highlighting the administration's emphasis on high-tech and media firms to help shape economic policy.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2011/02/obama_names_facebook_intel_com.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. No USA manufacturing jobs, I guess.

[Swede]

8. You didn't read the article,I guess.

Also included where,Richard L. Trumka, president, AFL-CIO and Joseph T. Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers international president.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Thank you...I was distracted at the time.

Dogs, cats, morning,etc.

[Swede]

10. Thank you for your gracious reply.

Life is hectic and I hope my post wasn't considered snark.

[Brickbat]

2. So, the COO of a company that specializes in getting people to produce content for free; someone who

gives away money in order to make money, and the CEO of a company that makes barrels of cash while screwing over its customers. BRILLIANT!

[ananda]

3. Kind of surreal politics in bizarroworld...

... where green means only money.

[Bardley]

4. wonder if they will agree with geithner, that more H-1bs are the answer? nt

[frazzled]

5. And labor leaders as well (you forgot to mention)

Richard L. Trumka, president, AFL-CIO
Joseph T. Hansen, United Food and Commercial Workers international president

plus a pretty good economist:

Laura D. Tyson, former chairwoman of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers

[Bardley]

6. any relation to tyson chicken family?

she worked for the clintons

[Shiver]

7. You know...

...this is the third thread I've seen on this where people haven't read the article, and thus complain about there being no manufacturing or labor or union people.

[WCGreen]

11. And you expected what.....

Reading beyond the headlines...

My thread from a couple of days ago about this...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x491068

[OhioChick]

12. A lot of big-time offshorers on that list n/t