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Bummer. Obama Gets Bulldozed By Caterpillar CEO (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
Barack Obama said Caterpillar Inc. will hire employees if his pork-bloated stimulus bill passes... Later, Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said it wasn't true. Obama gets bullozed: Flopping Aces reported on this earlier from the Jake Tapper: President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last ...
Is the Obama White House already in trouble?
Top of the Ticket —
It's been a tough 10 days in the life of the 4-week-old Obama White House.
Tom Daschle has to withdraw as the president's pick for secretary of Health and Human Services for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who managed to squeeze through confirmation hearings despite his own tax problems, bombs in laying out the president's new Wall Street rescue plan. The street tanks.
Sen. Judd Gregg, the independent-minded Republican senator from New Hampshire (which kind of describes the whole state) decides at the last minute that he doesn't want to be President ...
Despite Obama's Promise Caterpillar Will Lay Off 2,454 Employees
Gateway Pundit —
President Barack Obama announced on February 11, 2009 that Caterpillar Inc. would hire employees if the pork-bloated Generational Theft Act passed through Congress: Obama got his record transfer of wealth from the private sector but he was a bit off with his prediction. Caterpillar will not start hiring... Instead 2,454 more employees will be laid off for at least 6 months. Breitbart reported: Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to lay off more than 2,400 employees at five plants in Illinois, Indiana and Georgia as the heavy equipment maker continues to cut costs ...
