Caterpillar CEO Bulldozes Up a Load of Damage Control

Somebody’s lying, I vote for the jive talker.

Am I wrong or is that basically what he said yesterday?

BRAVO!
Hurray for Jake Tapper’s persistence in bringing “Caterpillar” questions to Darth Gibbs — and especially for the heartening news that Obama’s hokey showboat session moved Caterpillar workers to lobby their Congressman to OPPOSE, rather than to support, the Porkulus!

MOst people, except those that read Tapper and Drudge, see what the CAT guy meant.
He is going to have to lay off some workers, but when the stimulus gets goign he sees that he might be able to hire some back.
I hope the 20% of ultra-conservatives who think that this is actually playing well in America come to their senses soon.

More taxpayer money down the toliet, WHERE IS the “Change” in that!?!

And? What Jake”
“but I am confident that swift passage of the stimulus will lay the important groundwork to rebuild our workforce.”
“if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”
Two statements that look to say the same thing to me Jake.
What is your beef? Did use the same exact words?

@Pork: What? That doesn’t even make sense. I rest my case.

If you can’t make an argument without using phrases like “Porkulus”, “Nobama”, and “The Messiah”, then you have absolutely no credibility.

obama gave hope to those layed off workers, this guy needs to research think and then speak, stimulas is to stimulate, not have us twiddling our thumbs for years, how many times obama are you going to look like the symbol of the dems

“… lay the important groundwork to rebuild our workforce” …
… is make-nice weasel words — the same kind of publicity-speak “clarifying” we know so well from the “Obama” organization — which might possibly be intended to make The Puppet look a little less full of it, on the “re-hiring” of workers, than he deservedly DOES look.
We’d bet Mr. Owens, who signed the “clarifying” remarks, did not actually WRITE them. Maybe Gibbs did?

“*Rush Limbaugh* just complimented you on being a fair journalist, someone who seeks the truth no matter what party affiliation! Watch out Jake!”
That’s because Drudge linked here.
I am sure Jake will be able to sleep at nite even knowing such a piece of garbage gave him a compliment.

“It was gracious of the Caterpiller CEO to try and save Obama’s face but why are all the employees lobbying AGAINST the Porkulus Bill?”
Maybe the Caterpillar people don’t like being talked down to while they’re being used as a backdrop for the “Obama” organization’s barn-storming baloney show.
Maybe the Caterpillar workers — employees and un-employees — don’t care for being patronized publicly, and purred at by a pretender who’s preening for the teevee cameras, trying to manipulate every crowd at His every appearance into “news” He can use …

The “Steal from Us Package” AKA “Stumulis Package” will do little but expand government dependence. It’s only the first step towards a more socialistic culture. Hopefully we can make gains in the house and the senate in 2010 and stop this fullishness!

First it was will create 2-3 million new jobs. Now it is save or create 2-3 million jobs. You watch, next it will be we hoped to save 2-3 million jobs.

I do not like what Obama’s bailout package but I hate Bush’s leading us to this hole, a deep one. You Bush people have no credit to criticize what Obama for he has not done anything worse than Bush yet, at least for now.

“It was gracious of the Caterpiller CEO to try and save Obama’s face but why are all the employees lobbying AGAINST the Porkulus Bill?”
It looks like you are saying that all the Caterpiller employees lobbied against the stimulus bill.
Can you back that up with a link to a reputable web site?
Thanks.

The only porkulus I see when I look around is Rush Limbaugh’s face. The same crowd who doubled the national debt in eight years and spend trillions looking for, what is it, WMD in Iraq, are now lecturing on fiscal responsibility? Reminds me of when young Dubya snorted a bit too much blow and left a house trashed; somebody else had to come in and clean it up.

The passing of this bill that can’t possibly be read in the amount of time given before the vote will give a lot of power to the government and money will be spent on pet projects – if that’s what the people want, then you obviously voted the right guy in. I for one want my representatives to be fully aware of what they are voting on and would hope they would eliminate wasteful spending. I don’t agree with the fact that the E-Verify was removed which would help prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. They are illegal – hence, they shouldn’t be getting paid money that an American is losing out on.

Somebody’s lying, I vote for the jive talker. says “Huh” My guess is he’s talking about Bush. This thing will not turn around on a dime. It took us eight years in get into it and it’ll take years to work our way out of it. Of course the GOP wants America to fail. They want us on our backs, hungry and hopeless so they can keep robbing us but America will fight back we’ll dig ourself out of the hold the GOP has dug of us and we’ll be better in the end, one Nation, Strong, Free and Democratic!

All MAJOR reputable economic reports have stated that this bill WILL Lower output and is NOT a stimulus but a the largest spending bill ever in the world. The economy is in a downward spiral not because of Bush but because of Obama’s GLOOM and DOOM since he started campaigning. Obama is responsible for the current conditions. Typcially a recession is triggered by an economic sitution (subprime -both GOP & DEM controlled – but recently controlled by DEM starting in 2006). What turns a recession around are people perceptions. All Obama has said is it’s bad it’s really bad. It wasn’t that bad. At the end of 2008, 40% of USA companies had a good or better year than 2007. Where was that news? The media wanted Obama so bad they played Americans and we bought the stories and drank the Koolaid and stopped spending and buying. It’s not a simple problem now and Obama has really dug himself and us in one deep hole.

The Cat guy first said that if the stimulus bill passed, he would be able to hire back some of his workers. Then Obama used that in one of his speeches. Then the Cat guy backpeddals. Now he hedges everything.
Posted by: SMP55
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If you speak out against Obama or democrats you better be ready for your companies to lose all bids on these pork government projects.
I think the CEO spoke the truth then realized if they want a wedge in the door to the taxpayers’ money he better kiss up.
This is what big government is about. Making everyone afraid to bite the hand that feeds them. But just keep being naive using Bush as an excuse for democrats to control your lives.

As a huge Rush fan, I’d say we need to continue down our current path. Let’s continue to outsource Cat jobs to other countries with cheap labor while lowering the taxes and regulations on the top 5%. This will spur an endless cycle of prosperity. Trickle down works…deregulation works…do nothing works…2009 is evidence of all of this.

Deb:”This bill is 1400 pages long now and the Repulicans have NEVER been given a copy of it. ”
THIS IS A LIE. I can get a copy of it for goodness sake – it’s right online in all its scanned glory on the Library of Congress site. What is wrong with you that you buy into such obvious nonsense? Think!

Democrats hate trickle down when it is tax money going back to the people who work. B UT they have pushed and promoted this TRICKLE DOWN RECOVERY PACKAGE THAT IS GOING TO THE TOP AND THEN SOMEHOW WILL TRICKLE DOWN TO THE STREET – COMED ON – LET’S BE HONEST THIS RECOVERY PACKAGE IS EARMARKS NAMED “INVESTMENT”.’S ObmbA’S is practicing the CLINTON BIG LIE approach!

Who cares what this plan might do for a few years? The bill will come do eventually and you twenty-somethings are going to have to pay it back. I’m just glad my banked money has already been taxed and uncle sam can’t ask me to repay these trillions of dollars!

“Well it is done. The bill passed the house without a single Republican vote.
I wonder how many of them will remember that when the economy starts to turn around?
The GOP days are numbered.
When you get your extended Unemployment check, remember who said it was Pork and voted against it.
When you get hired to build a bridge , repair a road, work on a school building, lay power lines etc. remember it was Pork and the GOP said no.
When youi can’t afford Cobra and the Government helps remember it is Pork, and the GOP said no.
Posted by: Thinking | Feb 13, 2009 2:42:15 PM”
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Democrats are depending on people like you who can only see the surface of things so keep it up. When you are intelligent enough to examine what is underneath the hood it is a different picture.
Democrats run a great PR campaign and a lot of people simply don’t have a high enough IQ to comprehend the big picture. Democrats present everything as seperate issues and depend on the public not to be able to tie together these pieces into a whole.
I hope you like it when once the government starts examining your medical information you suddenly find your options are limited and the federal government starts deciding what treatments you can get.
As the government gets bigger and takes over more they will erode rights to “cut costs,” “help people,” etc. If you look at world history this happens in every government.
FYi much of the “powerful CEO” rhetoric from government officials isn’t out of goodwill to protect the people. Many of them don’t like “new money” or that america allows for private citizens to not be controlled. This will change.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: That is what you are going to have left after paying for this boondoggle, change in your pocket is all you will have left or be able to believe in. The USA just got screwed.

Two parties, Dems and Rep, are all crooks. You think you elect them to serve you. Wrong, they get a position to serve themselves. Wake up you people! We got screwed by Bush or Reps; it is Obama and Dems’ turn to screw up. They are equally bad and evil.

@Deb… and others – - You may want to learn what an economic stimulus actually is. By definition a Stimulus Bill, is a Spending Bill.
So, when you say it’s not a Stimulus Bill, but a Spending Bill, you’re just showing your ignorance.
The problem with the Stimulus, is that not enough is going to those in need.
They’re the ones that will spend the money, and thus, stimulate the economy.

@Deb… and others – - You may want to learn what an economic stimulus actually is. By definition a Stimulus Bill, is a Spending Bill.
The problem with the Stimulus, is that not enough is going to those in need.
They’re the ones that will spend the money, and thus, stimulate the economy.
Posted by: jon | Feb 13, 2009 3:48:13 PM
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Please do yourself a favor. Take some economics and history courses.

“Government spending has NEVER helped with economic problems.”
So government spending during World War 2 did not lift us out of the Depression?

“”Government spending has NEVER helped with economic problems.”
So government spending during World War 2 did not lift us out of the Depression?
Posted by: Ryan C”
Lol I love liberal logic. So by your theory wouldn’t Iraq war spending have helped the economy?

So now that their political masters say that war spending helps the economy liberals should be praising Bush for helping keep our economy afloat shouldn’t they?

“Lol I love liberal logic. So by your theory wouldn’t Iraq war spending have helped the economy?”
Not really.
Just having fun with the right wing talking point that the New Deal did not get us out of the Depression, World War 2 did as evidence that the government spending solves nothing. That of course ignores the near complete government control of the economy(rationing, price fixing, wage fixing, government contract etc) during that time period.

It didn’t take long for the CEO to quickly reverse his opinion of Obama’s stinkulus bill. Now I wonder who called that CEO and made him an offer he could not refuse.
Remember, we are Americans and we have the right to oppose any President with voices of dissent, or simply an opposing view contrary to what this President is “selling” us.This smacks of pressure put on the CATERPILLAR CEO to change his tune and as each day passes with this “media driven Narcissist”, Obama, i FEAR our rights and freedoms will become merely memories once held by our citizens.

face it, Owens doesn’t care. he doesn’t care if his company can’t hire back thousands of workers. he’ll do fine. if the stimulus works he probably won’t even hire them back. when the infrastructural aspects of the plan are implimented (like highway construction, works on bridges) he’ll hire some back. he just a republican and protected by republican interests. their only concern is that his tax cut is bigger than the average american’s.

Ahhh, I knew it was just a matter of time before someone would label the CEO as “racist”.

Congressional approval rating is around 15%. Reelection rating is around 75%. I’m not very smart, but how do these numbers add up. What all is hidden in this bill? We will soon know. What about Card Check, is it in this bill?

thank god we’re seeing more and more how much these corrupt companies have relied on government handouts and negligence in order to keep American employees cheap and powerless.
Just today a right wing scary woman was on MSNBC saying that all of the employees of Caterpillar supported the stimulus bill. It was the crassest thing that I’ve ever heard because the CEO of Catterpillar said that if the stimulus bill passed, he would lay off employees. It was political sabotage number one because Obama was standing there in a Catterpillar factory, talking about all of the money the plan was giving businesses so that they could retain employees. They just could not care about their employees less, no matter how much money the government gives them to retain them.
If only Jerks like Catterpillar werent our only option for employment.