“President Barack Obama is heading to friendly territory to push his plan to spend billions more on education, meeting with Facebook’s founder and other technology leaders in the San Francisco Bay area and touring Intel Corp.’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Oregon,” Darlene Superville reports for The Associated Press.
“Obama was meeting business leaders in technology and innovation, including Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, at a private home in the San Francisco Bay area Thursday,” Superville reports. “Among the other business leaders Obama will meet with are GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt, who Obama recently named head of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness; Google chief executive Eric Schmidt; and Steve Jobs, the ailing Apple founder who announced last month that he was stepping aside as CEO due to medical issues.”
“Obama is touring Intel Corp.’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Ore., on Friday with CEO Paul Otellini… Otellini was among 20 corporate CEOs who met privately with Obama last December in Washington. He has criticized the administration, saying Obama’s policies have caused too much uncertainty for businesses and have not led to job growth or increased consumer confidence,” Superville reports. “Since that meeting, Obama has stressed the role of innovation as a key element of the job-creation agenda he is pursuing as he looks ahead to his re-election campaign next year.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I didn’t know that Steve Jobs was stepping aside as CEO? (bad journalism)
She just forgot to add “temporarily” before it. Not that big of deal, much worse happens all the time.
Yeah like the babble some of us spout…
Except he’s not temporarily stepping aside as CEO. He stated clearly that he’s continuing as CEO while on his medical leave.
BORN IN THE USA?
Stunner! Supremes to give eligibility case another look
Challenge to Obama getting 2nd conference before court
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=264897
Wow the Supreme Court is going to look into Maobama’s birth certificate situation. Spectacular. I bet you Marxists are quaking in your boots.
works for me
UK Store only it seems, sorry. Hmmmm…..
Our country and our states are weighed down by an albatross of irresponsibility that we have foisted upon ourselves as leaders and that you as citizens have permitted us to get away with.
The president’s not talking about it because he’s waiting for the Republicans to talk about it. And our new bold Republicans we just sent to the House of Representatives, they’re not talking about it because they’re waiting for him to talk about it. Let me suggest to you that my children’s future and your children’s future is more important than some political strategy. Let me suggest to you that what game is being played down here is irresponsible and it is dangerous. We need to say these things and we need to say them out loud.
It’s put-up or shut-up time. If people who I campaigned for don’t stand up and do the right thing, the next time they will see me in their district is with my arm around their primary opponent.
I look at what’s happening in Washington D.C. right now and I’m worried. I’m worried.
When we say we’re cutting spending, when we say everything’s on the table, when we say we mean entitlement programs, we should be specific
Here’s the truth that nobody’s talking about. You’re gonna have to raise the retirement age for social security. Whoa, I just said it, and I’m still standing here. I did not vaporize. – NJ Governor Chris Christie, February 16, 2011
Christie also criticized what President Obama called “big things” in his State of the Union speech last month, saying things like the proliferation of high-speed rail and internet are the “candy of American politics” and aren’t where attention should be focused.
“Those are not the big things,” he said. “Because let me guarantee you something, if we don’t fix the big things, there ain’t going to be electric cars on the road. [There’s] gonna be no high speed internet access and if there is, you’re not going to be able to afford to get on it. We’re not going to be able to care about the niceties of life, the investments Washington wants to make.”
Christie points to “three big things” he’s started in New Jersey that need to spread across the country.
“It’s restoring and maintaining fiscal sanity. It’s getting our pension and health benefits under control, reformed and have the costs lowered, and it’s reforming and education system that costs too much and produces too little.”
http://fxn.ws/dFR0SZ
UK Store sorry.
“Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg”
I don’t think that a CEO that makes money taking advantage of people’s addictions is a very good idea to head a government protect or plan.
He’s on his way there to threaten to take them over next like the car companies. He, his regime, cronies, union buddies, etc. want to get their hands on all of that cash! Don’t doubt it. Where’s the birth certificate and college records????
Patriot… feel free to spew all you want.
Every court… up to and including the Supreme Court (Which is conservative leaning with 5 GOP Appointees) has ruled in every case before it, that the documents released by, and certified by the Sec. of State of Hawaii are official birth certificate records.
The people who keep harping on the Hawaii birth certificate for the 2008 election should drop it now. That battle is moot.
However, I applaud the efforts of the states to require documentation acceptable to that state in order to place someone on the ballot for President. The Constitution makes it ultimately the responsibility of the states to select electors for President, so it follows that the states should verify for themselves that the person is qualified to hold office.
And if the Supreme Court rules that there must be a consistent national standard for such verification, I have no problem with that, either. The problem right now is that there is NO standard, and that uncertainty, given the situation with the President’s birth certification (on which the signature had a one-to-one, pixel-for-pixel match with his sister’s birth certificate), should not be allowed to continue.
When they prove he isn’t an US citizen what should be done about it by the government? He has far from proven he is.
You know, the thing about “Wingnutz” is that they are easy to unscrew…..
Pres. Obama heads West.
Meanwhile, Microsoft heads roll…
Honestly, what could Eric T Mole contribute besides telling President Obama to spy on everyone about everything and to ignore IP and copy away?
I’m still waiting for Eric T to be held accountable for violating his NDA while serving on the Apple Board.
I wonder what steve will wear? This is exciting!!!
Two years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States . Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don’t lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans:
January 2009
TODAY
% chg
Source
Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.104
69.6%
1
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43.48
$99.02
127.7%
2
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38.74
$91.38
135.9%
2
Gold: London (per troy oz.)
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13.75
42.3%
2
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob
$13.37
$35.39
164.7%
2
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3
Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3
Number of unemployed
11,616,000
14,485,000
24.7%
3
Number of fed. employees, ex. military (curr = 12/10 prelim)
2,779,000
2,840,000
2.2%
3
Real median household income (2008 v 2009)
$50,112
$49,777
-0.7%
4
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10)
31,983,716
43,200,878
35.1%
5
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10)
7,526,598
9,193,838
22.2%
6
Number of long-term unemployed
2,600,000
6,400,000
146.2%
3
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009)
13.2%
14.3%
8.3%
4
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009)
39,800,000
43,600,000
9.5%
4
U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
5
9
n/a
10
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10)
29.9
23.5
-21.4%
11
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date)
140
164
17.1%
12
U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
89.76
82.03
-8.6%
2
U.S. money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)
1,575.1
1,865.7
18.4%
13
U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)
8,310.9
8,852.3
6.5%
13
National debt, in trillions
$10.627
$14.052
32.2%
14
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation’s history. Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would be doing 1,755 MPH! This is a disaster!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
You’re like an Arsonist complaining about the Fireman not putting the fire out fast enough.
But JayMan, you don’t understand. It doesn’t matter what any numbers imply.
It’s not Obama’s fault, or any other politicians (unless they’re conservatives, Republicans or some other form of right winger – they are always to blame). They only have good intentions… and their intentions are to help us.
Or something like that.
Apple Stock
Jan 16, 2009- $82.33
Feb 17, 2011- $358.10
+436%
California:
The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor’s dog, then bites the
Governor.
1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie
“Bambi” and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only
doing what is natural.
2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote
and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating
it.
3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and
bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.
4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked
for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of
dangerous animals.
6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a
“coyote awareness program” for residents of the area.
7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better
treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
8. The Governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the
attack. The State spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with
additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
9. PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit
against the State.
TEXAS:
The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature
trail. A Coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and
keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
2. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is an example of why California is broke and Texas is not.
I feel sorry for you if you believe this hokum about Rick Perry.
Absolutely. Rick Perry carries a 9mm.
That doesn’t mean he shot a coyote while out jogging.
Wow Arnold you really are slow in the brain…… It’s obviously a joke email exposing liberal commies for what they are.
Get the name calling right. We’re “pinko-commie-fags.”
I heard he shot a jogger while outing a coyote….
http://www.bayswan.org/COYOTE.html
Hahahaha!….well, except Texas IS broke.
http://theweek.com/article/index/210730/debt-crisis-is-texas-americas-ireland
Not as off the cliff as fruit and nut land CA.
Hmm. This has a different picture of Texas’ finances:
http://bit.ly/dRvwCj
Obama: *knocks on door*
door opens
Steve: Hi there!
Obama: It’s such a privilege to finally meet you, your highness.
Don’t forget the bow.
Wow, who left the Teabagger cage open, thease fools have no clue that it takes time for a Action by a president to be seen by the general poulation.
But hey, you all seem to know what’s the problem, now understand that the way to correct it is to stop pointing fingers and get off your asses.
What you are seeing now is the left over garbage of the Bush years finaly working itself out like a festering boil on the ass of America.
Understand that no matter how hard Obama could try he could not make allot of thoes things happen in 2 years.
The worst problem we have is uneducated idiots that can buy a computer and just make things up as they go while along the way they pick up more idiots to join thier little quest and by the time it’s to a point that all thease has been wantabees think they have the answer to all the problems, and how they can fix them when all this bunch does is sit and watch reality TV and yell at the screen and Blog all day for a living.
No, look in a mirror, More of the problems are looking right at you and will be with you no matter who is President.
It all starts and ends with you, Don’t you get it!
“this message to all the tea bag nut jobs that think they have the answer, but don’t, good ideas take smarter people”
Keep telling yourself that fool. You couldn’t be more wrong. Obaminadjad is on his third year and it’s getting worse the nano second. We will vote these communists out and start repairing the damage.
My guess is that Obama and Jobs will discuss how to help their mutual friend who is running for mayor of Chicago.
What – he didn’t call in Monkey Boy?
The Chief
NavyTim
Meanwhile, Oatmeal’s got an early scoop on this, I think you’d like it:
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/obama_meeting
Anyone has an update about this meeting??
I want to see a photo op of a healthy looking Steve with the other attendees.
“Something is happening but you don’t know what it is- do you” Mr. Jayman?
Your statistics and pomposity are beyond comprehension. Your obsession is out of place here. The story is- Steve Jobs has been summoned to meet with the president, and it’ll be great if he shows up. otherwise, keep your politics to yourself.
snauraa,
It mentions Mabobama who is destroying the US as fast as he can. We’re hopping mad about it and going to vote him out. It goes without saying that about the only thing conservatives agree with liberals on is our love and prayers (conservatives only) for Steve Jobs and for him to get better and our love of Apple Inc.
snaura, those numbers really aren’t pretty are they. no wonder you’re upset JayMan posted them. Commie!