Comments on: Wait, now the right hates General Electric?

By: Chozeq

Chozeq — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:03:02 +0000

My beef with GE is their habit of buying good companies, moving their manufacturing to China (with an existing or added defect or two), staffing their helpline from India, and then spinning them off because they don’t meet some profit criteria effectively destroying the US company and product.

By: ajsfca

ajsfca — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:57:48 +0000

According to Federal Election Commision data, General Electric’s PAC contribution to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign was $529,855.

By: james85306

james85306 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:00:25 +0000

Left, right, tea party…….rubbish

The middle class only speaks to what is right and wrong.

PCB pollution is wrong and GE knew it. Earning billions but paying no tax is wrong and GE knows that too.

Speak to the truth.

By: LEEDAP

LEEDAP — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:49:42 +0000

There’s enough anger that all it takes is a spokesperson to set the fire (sparksperson?). As weak as these connections are, the motivation is political opportunism for anything that might resonate with voters who are looking for easy answers. The Tea Party’s simple answer to reduce the deficit and the size of the Government at the same time is just as simplistic and vague as the Occupy movement’s objective too… be angry at something- to transfer their despair over a declining standard of living to anything that can be vilified by someone they trust.

Don’t get me wrong. Both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement have important messages that the political parties that typically represented the right and left respectively, have failed to take up due largely to corporate influence. So the anger is justified. It’s just that the situation is more complicated and the solutions require a more collaborative approach rather than the us versus them sentiment that anger dispenses.