“In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, ‘Steve Jobs,’ author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama’s 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administration’s policies,” The Huffington Post reports.
“The publication date of the official biography of the notoriously-secretive Apple co-founder was pushed up after his death in October,” The Huffington Post reports. “Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost missed meeting President Obama in the fall of 2010 because he insisted that the president personally ask him for a meeting. Though his wife told him that Obama “was really psyched to meet with you,” Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days.”
“When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative,” The Huffington Post reports. “‘You’re headed for a one-term presidency,’ he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where ‘regulations and unnecessary costs’ make it difficult for them.”
The Huffington Post reports, “Jobs also criticized America’s education system, saying it was ‘crippled by union work rules,’ noted Isaacson. ‘Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform.’ Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year…. Though Jobs was not that impressed by Obama, later telling Isaacson that his focus on the reasons that things can’t get done ‘infuriates’ him, they kept in touch and talked by phone a few more times.”
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Remember – Steve Jobs’ best friend is the president of ORACLE.
Oracles know things.
@Alcancun
You’re absolutely right. Finally someone with some common sense. The current system of exploitation of labor and resources is on its last leg. People are scrambling to save the system. A system where most people live to work, and not work to live. They need jobs to make the cycle continue to work not to enjoy life. The current system is in global failure not national failure. Why do so many Americans act like the economy is only an Americsn problem. Maybe Jobs was right, 11 months of school would help them learn to read.
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I’m skipping the political argument above because I don’t care to join it.
I don’t agree with Steve’s politics, but I admire him for his business sense and his balls to speak his mind.
Politically, I’m very centered, and I believe it to be pointless trying to debate politics with closed-minded wingnuts from either side.
“Politically, I’m very centered, and I believe it to be pointless trying to debate politics with closed-minded wingnuts from either side.”
I’ve always assumed I was alone in the middle. Glad to know I’m not.
losers. take a stand for something you idiots.
Idiot? You may be right Ken. Now that I think about it, I can’t think of a single reason why I spent I 20+ years in the Marine Corps putting my life on the line for people like you.
Come to think of it. If you’re ever in the area, why don’t you stop by the VFW, Post 2632 in California, MD. I’d be honored to buy you a beer (if you’re old enough to drink), and you can explain to me the intricacies of what it means to take a stand for something.
The phone number is three-zero-one 862 3247. Just ask for, “Top”. Everyone who works there or frequents the establishment knows who I am.
Try reading.
http://cnnmoney.mobi/wk_snarticle?articleId=urn:newsml:CNNMoney.com:20111020:sarkozy_merkel_europe_crisis:1&category=cnnm_business
Silly Jobs. He is a democrat. He isn’t pro-business. He is for the 99%, not the 1% like republicans.
Steve does have a point on business and the school system. Having a union protecting unqualified teachers is the stupidest thing this country allows. Your country is only as competitive and successful as the quality of education offered. This education issue is much more serious than some of you might think. It is the foundation of everything that follows.
Agree 100% with you and Steve. The unions keep the lousy teachers employed and lock out the new energized blood. When I was in high school I had such a lousy teacher in my major (I was the best in the school in this major) that I had to go to the guidance counselor, tell her I was learning NOTHING with this lame excuse for a teacher and if she didn’t switch me to a better one I’d drop the class. I got switched, but that brain dead, sour, used up, non-teacher remained until retirement about 10 years later. And wasted my parents School Tax dollars for 10 years. Go Steve!
Who else is guaranteed employment for a lousy job? Well, some political offices are so I guess they sympathize.
I also think kids should stay in school from 8:00 to 4:30 or 5:00, this would save the parents a lot of money. No expensive after school programs, or babysitters. No unsupervised “Latch key kids”.
I have to work those hours and I don’t get summers off. Why can’t teachers? Don’t tell me because they bring papers home to grade. I bring work home too. With a longer work day, they can give teachers a couple free periods to do some of that grading during the day.
Steve is right – we have a ton of regulations that is making it harder and harder for businesses to operate. Only the wealthier businesses that can afford expensive lawyers can survive.
We are at the point of diminishing returns where additional legislation adds more market deadweight than it serves to protect.
Sadly Jobs does seem right in saying that Obama seems to concentrate at least these days on why things cant get done. Always remember on this side of the pond how things had changed from those people who for centuries just went and did it to the ‘we cant do that because…’ that plagued our psyche this last half century or more. Meanwhile the Japanese had taken over that role of finding solutions. I fear that on your side of the pond a similar negativism is taking hold in which Apple shone as a bright if lonely beacon to the opposing attitude. Of course even in Japan that sense of confidence is waning too.
Nothing will change for this country until we fundamentally change our political campaign contribution laws….until then it’s just legalized bribery. Thats why ultimately there is little difference with a candidate for either party. The powers that be have hedged their bets either way. We should eliminate all political advertizing and allow candidates time to introduce themselves and debate on a few public tv channels and web sites
You see there’s a big difference in supporting reasonable and humane liberal causes and being anti-business and economically naive like Obama. Time for a change!
Okay, this is just a random question for both the lefties and the righties.
Doesn’t it bother you that our representatives in congress are not subject to the same health care laws that they are imposing on the citizens of the US? Their Healthcare (and Retirement btw) is/will be much better.
I can’t see how, regardless of your ideology, this wouldn’t bug the shit out of you. I mean really.
Seriously, are all these guys paid by the Koch Brothers astroturf organizations or perhaps by Rove’s Crossroads GPS to haunt tech website and spew bile?
Steve Jobs, a right winger. Love it!!!
So Steve was clueless about education. Nobody is perfect.
I think the funniest thing coming up on these comments (aside from comparing Obama to Mao Tse Tung – that’s just laughably stupid) is how Obama being wrong automatically makes Welfare a failure (ask the Germans and Swedes how they are holding up), liberalism a piece of shit and the Tea Party the Gods Of Reason.
A president is only as good as a supportive congress. This is the way our system of checks-and-balances was designed.