Obama's All-Star Tech Powerhouse Dinner Guests

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[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Yeah right... Thank God Republicans don't lobby or talk to big enterprise leaders. Last time I checked, it were the Republicans that took most of the lobbyist's donations and that were big business' best friend. If Obama were a communist, which he isn't (I suggest you read what Marx and Engels had to say and you would notice that Obama is about as far away from communism as a Tea Party member) , he wouldn't have a cozy chat with captains of industry. Instead, he would strip both state and enterprise from their power and give it to the common people, a bit like the Tea Party wants.[/citation]

Last time I checked no American President had ever been intelligent enough to understand socialism let alone communism. Can you imagine either Bush's getting their gnats brains around Marx or Engels?

Better for American's to stick with capitalism. It's easier to understand the principles of self and greed.
 
[citation][nom]Silmarunya[/nom]Yeah right... Thank God Republicans don't lobby or talk to big enterprise leaders. Last time I checked, it were the Republicans that took most of the lobbyist's donations and that were big business' best friend. If Obama were a communist, which he isn't (I suggest you read what Marx and Engels had to say and you would notice that Obama is about as far away from communism as a Tea Party member) , he wouldn't have a cozy chat with captains of industry. Instead, he would strip both state and enterprise from their power and give it to the common people, a bit like the Tea Party wants.[/citation]
power to the people, like the constitution. my tea bag in your face. by the way how do you feel about the upcomming default (14.3tril) on the $14.164 trillion dollar american national debt which has an interest rate of over $200 billion currently with our fantastic AAA credit rating. i can't wait to default it will automatically kill that great credit rating and jack the interest rate up to $800 billion per year. and that's if america ONLY gets knocked down to AA which i know of no bank that wouldn't drop anyone far lower then that. that's far less then the 25% rate they would knock every one else down to which would amount to 3.5 trillion dollars in interest per year, which is pretty much what our government takes in for taxes each year right now.
i based my remarks on figures at usdebtclock.org
everyone i'd want at this party if i was going to put forth a marxist/leninist/stalinish propoganda machine.
Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance— but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time.
Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America.
The story of Obama’s political career is not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot— after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates’ petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with.

Despite his words today about “change” and “cleaning up the mess in Washington,” Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform candidates.

Obama is running on an image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes of Houdini.

Why much of the public and the media have been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: “People don’t come to Obama for what he’s done, they come because of what they hope he can be.”

David Freddoso’s book titled “The Case Against Barack Obama” should be read by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of Obama’s true believers, who have made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by the facts. which is probably why he personally invited and quoted Steve Jobs so much.
just sayin'!
don't worry i think the republicans are just as corrupt i can specifically target mitt romney and his investments and his investment firm Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm, specifically investing in all aspects of medicine and health care and directly benefiting from romneycare in massachusetts as well as obamacare which you do not hear him objecting to with a loud voice.
the thing about the tea party is it's also made up of libertarians and democrats who are blue dogs. go ahead and accuse the center of the democrat party, but remember there are democrats who don't believe in writing blank checks like FDR and Obama have done.
 
You cant' be a guest in a house that you own. That's why Microsoft, Intel, IBM are not invited.
 
Blank checks? Spending BILLIONS trying to find invisible weapons of 'mass destruction' is the biggest fleecing of America that there has ever been. Handing banks 800 billion dollars to give their CEOs 50 million dollar bonuses for failure is writing a blank check. Health care and social security is not a blank check. Your tea bags are in your mouth. As for the comments about Marxism, clearly none of you have ever read his work. As for political vs. theoretical communism, America resembles none of that neither do any of our politicians. Clearly you haven't studied theoretical communism either if it's supposedly based on "duping" idealogical communists. I sincerely thought the readers of this forum were smarter than this, but I guess I was "duped" as well.

As for MS not being at the meeting, as some have stated, they have been there several times already this year. This is just 1 meeting. Relax!
 
[citation][nom]JohnMD1022[/nom]I suppose Mullah Obama was telling another group of business people "I get it" when in reality, he is clueless.[/citation]

Please stop talking your ignorance is hurting my head. 🙁
 
You know... I had a reply all typed out and ready to post... and then I realised that nearly all the comments above are from business and political RETARDS!

My advice... Go and watch some George Carlin videos for a slightly different perspective.
 
I love how everybody is all about why Microsoft wasn't there, when it is obvious that Intel wasn't as well. They have got to be one of the biggest tech companies employing tons of people not only in the States, but worldwide. I am also going to include a few other companies not attending for whatever reason, for peoples' consideration:
AMD
Samsung
nVidia
ARM

Honestly, this little meeting was a joke. Google and Apple are really the only solid TECH companies of any size. Biggest tech companies, right. Seems you missed a few, I mean, just about the entire tech industry.
 
[citation][nom]GeneralTon[/nom]Blank checks? Spending BILLIONS trying to find invisible weapons of 'mass destruction' is the biggest fleecing of America that there has ever been. Handing banks 800 billion dollars to give their CEOs 50 million dollar bonuses for failure is writing a blank check. Health care and social security is not a blank check. Your tea bags are in your mouth. As for the comments about Marxism, clearly none of you have ever read his work. As for political vs. theoretical communism, America resembles none of that neither do any of our politicians. Clearly you haven't studied theoretical communism either if it's supposedly based on "duping" idealogical communists. I sincerely thought the readers of this forum were smarter than this, but I guess I was "duped" as well. As for MS not being at the meeting, as some have stated, they have been there several times already this year. This is just 1 meeting. Relax![/citation]


Maybe you didn't know, but a billion is not more than a trillion. The billions spent on the war against terrorism is nothing compared to the trillions spent in the last 3 years...yes starting one year before obama won the election. You obamabots crack me up when you instinctively and brainlessly attack bush's record every time your precious obama screws up. I guess that's called choking on your vote. btw, your diatribe on theoretical vs ideological communism makes no sense whatever. Political communism is what exists in cuba/russia/china et al. Ideological communism exists in immature minds of economic cry babies and nowhere in the real world. I have no idea what the difference between theoretical and ideological is or why you comment on it. That's drivel you made up.
 
Some Fool Wrote: "Maybe you didn't know, but a billion is not more than a trillion. The billions spent on the war against terrorism is nothing compared to the trillions spent in the last 3 years...yes starting one year before obama won the election. You obamabots crack me up when you instinctively and brainlessly attack bush's record every time your precious obama screws up. I guess that's called choking on your vote. btw, your diatribe on theoretical vs ideological communism makes no sense whatever. Political communism is what exists in cuba/russia/china et al. Ideological communism exists in immature minds of economic cry babies and nowhere in the real world. I have no idea what the difference between theoretical and ideological is or why you comment on it. That's drivel you made up."

You really are a mental midget. We spent BILLIONS (thousands of billions in this case) finding... well... NOTHING. The actual cost of the IRAQ war, by the way, is over 3 TRILLION (Source - Washington Post). This was BEFORE Obama. As for the lines about communism, try reading some of the other posts in the forum before commenting fool. You would have a clue as to what I was referring to. 3 trillion dollars finding invisible weapons of mass destruction... now that is priceless! Spending money on programs that actually help the American people is called intelligence. Our economy sucks because of 8 years of republican rule (bureau of labor and statstics). The statistics simply don't lie.
 
In 15 years, every single one of these companies listed, will be operating out of either Shanghai, Bangalore or Seoul. Mark my words! They will certainly retain offices all over the World, but you can't beat the tax incentives, cheap labour and market volumes of Asian countries. Sorry, I don't like it any more than you do, but perhaps that's why President Obama is wining and dining these men/women. It's not just because they needed to be fed... it's got to do with the bottom line. America is already falling sorely behind in technology research and development, and what takes the USA to produce in a year, takes 4 months in South Korean, 3 months in China and 2 months in Japan. I mean ratios, not actual time-frame. At least this President sees the facts, and is doing something about it. The dinner was just the cover story, the "talks" is what it's all about.
 
[citation][nom]GeneralTon[/nom]Blank checks? Spending BILLIONS trying to find invisible weapons of 'mass destruction' is the biggest fleecing of America that there has ever been. Handing banks 800 billion dollars to give their CEOs 50 million dollar bonuses for failure is writing a blank check. Health care and social security is not a blank check. Your tea bags are in your mouth. As for the comments about Marxism, clearly none of you have ever read his work. As for political vs. theoretical communism, America resembles none of that neither do any of our politicians. Clearly you haven't studied theoretical communism either if it's supposedly based on "duping" idealogical communists. I sincerely thought the readers of this forum were smarter than this, but I guess I was "duped" as well. [/citation]
i totally agree with not bailing out any of those banks, GM, Chrysler and GE. we didn't bail out other manufacturers and financial institutions who went belly up back in the 30's either other wise duesnberg and others would still be around as well as over a thousand other banks.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/business/congress-passes-wide-ranging-bill-easing-bank-laws.html
biggest waste of money if you ask me as well as almost every social program instituted since FDR was elected.
he brought about the start of social communism with income tax and social security, which was later shored up with medicaid, medicare, fica, romneycare and now obamacare.
i totaly agree with iraq i tried to tell people to watch him find a way to wage war withsaddam for thumbing his nose at his daddy, before he even got to the run off with mccain. nobody believed me then either.
how ever the excuse and pretense of WMD's was not a lie, try going back to abc, nbc, cbs and pbs footage of the iran-iraq war i remember watching nightly news reports of reporters in iraq taking footage of the cia training iraqi artillery crews and those artillery crews dressed in gas masks and rubber suits later firing chemical shells at iranians.
In November 1980, Tehran Radio was broadcasting allegations of Iraqi chemical bombing at Susangerd. Three and a quarter years later, by which time the outside world was listening more seriously to such charges, the Iranian Foreign Minister told the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva that there had been at least 49 instances of Iraqi chemical-warfare attack in 40 border regions, and that the documented dead totalled 109 people, with hundreds more wounded. He made this statement on 16 February 1984
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/chemical_warfare_iran_iraq_war.php
i think you confused whose mouth my tea bags are in with your own.
as much as i hated clinton and bush jr and reagan i am throwing obama right in there with them for alot of his major stupid ideas and have no problems throwing romney in there also under that same bus. the religious republicans are just as socialist as the liberal democrats, they just disagree on what and how to fleece & control the rest of the majority of americans and what the latest scam tax payer money should be used to line their pockets.
personally i don't give a horses road apple about iraq or afganistan. this these wars against 3rd world countries should have taken only 6 months a most, there is no excuse for this serious failure. i'd drop iraq like a hot potato and not give them another dime and send those troops and equipment to afganistan and tell every trooper 'weapons free' and to leave afganistan as nothing but rubble sparing only women and children and anybody else who doesn't point a weapon at an american and after they were done to go hunt down bin laden and crew where ever they were, no matter where they were with what ever means of force was necessary short of nukes. i'd just up and leave afganistan as that pile of rubble as a sign post to the other nations in this world what i'd let happen to them should they choose to aid or harbor the al-queda enemies that attacked us.
i'm all for being a cost effective spending hawk. the navy, marines and army don't need their own planes bombers and helicopters, space command, that's what the air force is for.
i'd drop the entire F-35 program in a heart beat. as there are much better economical near term solutions available for the economical long term solutions about to roll out.
right now as it stands i'd break off a lot of trade agreements also and or either roll back the dollar a decimal point in value to make america competetive and more level or i'd have to kill or heavily regulate trade with any country not economically as equal as america is.
i would not fight a war against communism by feeding them unless it gave means to a way for revolt in their country to get rid of the communists.
there's a battle going on with the republicans and democrats on how to economicaly and equality make america on the same playing field with the rest of the 3rd world that will only benefit the rich at the expense of most americans.
we can't afford this 14.164 trillion dollar debt or the
top 6 expense's in our system
1)medicare/medicaid $794,856,XXX,XXX billion per year
2)social security ----$702,623,XXX,XXX billion per year
3)defense & wars -----$694,012,XXX,XXX billion per year
4)income security-----$430,092,XXX,XXX billion per year
5)interest on the national debt $203,493,XXX,XXX billion per year
6)federal pensions ---$199,168,XXX,XXX billion per year
that is just SO FAR THIS YEAR!
usdebtclock.org
 
U don't really think Bush or Obama makes the decisions in America do ya? There nothing more than puppets, being made to dance to the tune of the proper elite. It's been like that for a long time now, ever since the Federal Reserve Bank was privatized maybe even longer.
I also agree with some of the post's, there's an agenda and it's not employment it's most likely to control the masses. Peace to you all
 
[citation][nom]Big Man On Campus[/nom]You really are a mental midget. We spent BILLIONS (thousands of billions in this case) finding... well... NOTHING. The actual cost of the IRAQ war, by the way, is over 3 TRILLION (Source - Washington Post). This was BEFORE Obama. As for the lines about communism, try reading some of the other posts in the forum before commenting fool. You would have a clue as to what I was referring to. 3 trillion dollars finding invisible weapons of mass destruction... now that is priceless! Spending money on programs that actually help the American people is called intelligence. Our economy sucks because of 8 years of republican rule (bureau of labor and statstics). The statistics simply don't lie.[/citation]

We've never had 8 years of republican rule. Ever. In america, the president is but one branch of the government. By himself, the president can't do anything. The last two years, however, WERE DEMOCRAT RULE. The final 2 years of bush were democrat rule as well. Lets see...when did the economy crap out again? Ah yes, very interesting coincidence don't ya think? Letsee...when was the last time the economy crapped out really bad? Late seventies? Another very interesting coincidence don't ya think?
 
[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]I hope USA will succeed, because the rise of China as a world power is really creepy.[/citation]

Well..... world (or super) power does come and go for any country that has that title.. It is really only a matter of time before we lose it. England (a good example) had the super power status back in the 1700's but yet they don't have it any more now and unless im mistaken on my history, in the far past, china was a super power. Could be wrong on that though. (too much info mixing up in my head. >.< )
 
Intel shouldn't have commented that building a plant int he US cost $1B more due to government regulations... don't criticize the regime or you will not get invited...
 
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