Big Business Makes Wish List for GOP

[DearAbby]

Now that Republicans have been propelled to victory by resentment over the nation's crippling economic problems, they can get to work making them worse by pandering to big business.

According to the Wall Street Journal, business leaders have begun articulating the specific ways they'd like the newly Republican Congress to promote their interests at the expense of the country, environment, and world:

The head of the National Association of Manufacturers, John Engler, said his group's members want an across-the-board extension of the Bush tax cuts plus new cuts to stimulate hiring; a rollback of selected pending regulations unfriendly to manufacturers in the Environmental Protection Agency, labor, and energy departments among other moves.

Mr. Engler and Ms. Schneider said big GOP gains would force a change in approach and tone at the White House. Mr. Engler said he hoped that would include a housecleaning at regulatory agencies.

Roundtable members like International Business Machines Corp., Merck and Company Inc. and Caterpillar Inc., could get a reprieve from higher taxes on overseas profits and potential penalties for moving jobs to overseas under a GOP-led Congress.

More:

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/315806/big_business_makes_wish_list_for_gop/

[KansDem]

1. Didn't they already get all of this?

...an across-the-board extension of the Bush tax cuts plus new cuts to stimulate hiring -- they had these tax cuts for ten years. And we now have the highest employment rate since the Great Depression.

...a rollback of selected pending regulations unfriendly to manufacturers -- Uh, does the Gulf and TARP ring a bell?

...a reprieve from higher taxes on overseas profits and potential penalties for moving jobs to overseas -- Isn't that where all our jobs have been going? (see no. 1)

It's amazing: They talk like they haven't tried all this before, but doing so will cure our ills.

These folks have neither conscience nor shame...

[onethatcares]

2. yes Virginia, if you thought you had a

one hundred dollar a day habit called life, you're gonna have to make it an eighty dollar a day one from here on out. Afterall, we have to compete with a billion or so chinese, burmese, taiwanese, malaysians, west africans and whoever else for the remaining jobs.

How does one contact John Engler?

[county worker]

3. Well let's work together

[HopeHoops]

4. The GOP IS their wish list.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. The Corporate Personhood expect their money's worth.

Thank The Filthy Five on the SCOTUS for the outcome of the election.

[mmonk]

6. The rape and plunder of what remains of America is on.