Forum Post: Take the movement to the steps of GE headquarters
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 3:25 p.m. EST by SaveTheUSA
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Lots of good points being made here. Even if your viewpoint doesn't completely align with mine, please share the video with others. I think the corporate facet needs to be explored some more.
What did they do that the government did not allow them to do?
Take the movement to the steps of Congress if you don't like it.
It has gotten to the point that big US corps and congress are one in the same. Difference is, GE has the money, mindset, and campaign to continue the destruction of our nation. Big US corps and their, for lack of a better word, "leadership" have chosen to ignore what is best for the US (this wasn't true a generation ago). Most US citizens don't realize just how cancerous GE and others have been to our nation.
Once again, our Government allows it. It is up to our elected officials who represent us to stop this. Take it up with them, not GE.
Did you watch/listen-to the video?
Yes, and it is awful, unethical behavior by GE. But from what I can tell, none of it is illegal. The government allows Immelt this influence and their policies give them the incentive to move jobs to China.
I personally don't want the goverment micro-managing US companies but I do want US companies to care about our nation. I really believe that demonstrations against GE would go a long way in raising awareness and helping fix our country's problems.
They might but I doubt GE cares if you protest. Companies care about profits and until the last couple decades it was easy to make profits in the US. Now its easier to make profits overseas because of all the regulations here.
In older times companies cared about profits AND our country. I am not sure what happened in the last few decades but seems to me like everybody finds it acceptable that profits are first and country is a DISTANT second and that's "just the way it is". Not sure what happened to our sense of nationalism/patriotism in the context of current US corporate ideology. I would love to have an Edison, Ford, Firestone, Morgan in the camp. Those guys wanted BOTH our country and their companies to win. That sense of responsibility among corp execs is gone. Seems like they would "pimp their momma" to maximize next quarters profit. Shameful. These corporate execs don't seem to be from the same country I grew up in.