Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco

There was a message in the State of the Union ?
What was it ?
Or does Obama want to sell his $1.7 Trillion budget deficit and $15 Trillion national debt ?

To meet with these type of people sound good and all, but I think Bobby if this message is about deficit & debt they are missing one important person…Bill Gates. Here is a guy that seek out 30 billionaires to donate half of there wealth to the Giving Pledge. Instead contributing a vast majority of that wealth into other countries; why not put it in all charities within the US. Its seems that the US Government is so worried about invading other countries and rebuilding them. Why not fix our debt here? I’m just say…!

Let me guess. Gates will start to whine about not having access to enough cheap, foreign labor and will ask Obama to increase the H-1B visa limit. Never mind that the program has been shown to be fraudulent and has led to our 10% unemployment rate, it’s what the “important” people want and not what is good for the American people.

Shocking, President Obama is surrounding himself with people who already publicly approve of his handling of the economy (primary because he has granted them exemptions from the policies hes enacting). If he had ever run anything in his life, he would understand the importance of not surrounding himself with “yes-men”. Nothing will change, let’s hope the country wakes up and realizes this is a farce.

No good will come of this.
This is big business running the government. Apple/Jobs has been siphoning 30% of their developers rightful income just for the privilege of publishing on the apple platform. He’s putting developers out of business and hes going to advise how to run the economy?
Zuckerberg has made privacy a joke. Yeah, he’s going to write the new patriot act.
Schmidts the only wild card in all of this, and probably just because I don’t know enough about him.
These people are anti-society. A free and just societies government should be completely separate from big business and working for the people; not taking advice from big business.
Our government is so flawed.

Corporate influence at the highest levels of government power? Rich CEOs trying to inflence policy and getting unfettered access to the President?
And here I thought Obama was bringing “Change.”
Oh well. Guess that only matters when the GOP is in power.
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE, O-BOTS?

Other than Jobs, these “business leaders” produce nothing but air. I guess we are becoming a “service nation” afterall. Pretty soon the only jobs will be at Mickey Ds.

Those of you that imagine that an alliance between a left-wing president and mammoth corporations is somehow going to work out better than an alliance between a right-wing president and mammoth corporations …
Well, at a minimum you are sorely mistaken.
Alliances between gov’t and business entities almost never do anything than to corrupt both and disadvantage everybody else.
Look forward to more bad news — and expect everybody to feel surprised … again.

@ Rachel | Feb 17, 2011 12:45:31 AM
“Johnny, based on the guest list, this appears to be a California business event.”
It’s a meeting of the IT branch of the NSA. Google, Facebook and Apple (with AT&T) are spying on the American people.

And how many US jobs does Apple create?
Doesn’t look like that many to me…
iPhone Primary Contractors -
a partial list
Software and design Apple USA
Assembly Foxconn Taiwan
TFT-LCD Screen Sanyo, Japan
Video processor chip Samsung Korea
Touch screen overlay Balda Germany
Bluetooth chip Cambridge UK
Chip manufacture SMC, UMC Taiwan
Baseband IC Infineon Germany
WIFI Chip Marvell USA
Touch screen chip Broadcom USA
CMOS chip Micron USA
NOR Flash ICs Intel, USA
Display Driver chip National,US,
Case, Mechanical parts Foxconn Taiwan
Camera lens Largan Taiwan
Camera module Altus, Taiwan
Battery Charger Delta Taiwan
Timing Crystal TXC Taiwan
Passive components Cyntec Taiwan
Connector and cables Cheng, Taiwan

This is pay for play access to power. The man on the street couldn’t score a meeting with the powerful if he tried.

What do these three all have in common? They are all smarter and better qualified to be the President than the O’ Bozo they are meeting with. They are probably going to beg (or bribe) the annointed one to exempt them from Obamacare and all the destructive policies he advocates. San Francisco is one of the few places Obama still has any support.

What? No Steve Balmer?

I love how the right wing nuts jump on anything that Obama tries to do and left wing hippies hail the king for whatever he does. There is no such thing as objective thinking in this country. The prejudice and intolerance is fogging up peoples mind. It is so easy to blame everyone else…the government,the system, the corporations are all evil…and the people? oh, they are just poor angels, exploited by the evil left/right wing, the nutty liberal/right media, the greedy corporations and the list goes on. Get real!! Change needs to come from within you. Be tolerant towards the world, towards people of other race, other countries, other religion…be a human being first and then whatever you want to be American, Christian/Jew/Muslim,…
In this case, Obama is meeting some successful business leaders, give the president the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he is looking for ideas to make this country work as successful as their companies, maybe he is talking to them about not shipping so many jobs abroad and create more jobs here, and just for once, leave your negativity and political narrow mindedness behind. Or you can convince yourself that this black liberal non-American Muslim on a corporate payroll is out there to sell your soul and burn this country. The choice is yours.

And no one commented on the Google CEO being proud of his employee that helped the overthrow of Mubarak? Now private companies engage in high level foreign policy with no comment from the Liberals so upset about the USA’s foreign policy. Oh, I forgot only the Republican’s get it wrong. How soon we forget history. Some people even think Woodrow the progressive and FDR the depression extender were great leaders.

Political parties and the President aren’t the problem. RELIGION is the problem. We need to ouster religion to ouster the problems. All of the world’s problems are caused by RELIGION and intolerance toward others’ religions.

I don’t use Google and I don’t use Facebook.

Hmmm….All the Corporate Welfare leaders in one room.
This is clearly a meeting for Corporatist/Government leaders to find ways of stealing even more money from us lowly common Plebes, in order to give the stolen booty to our rich masters who allow us the privilege of buying cheap crap they have made by slaves in China.

Just a circle jerk of dorkes.

Wow. Facebook has a say so in America. Pathetic. I can not wait till we get our country back

What do any of them know about creating American jobs? I’d be more impressed if he spoke to Andy Grove, Alan Mulally and Randall Stephenson. At least they know how to create an American job.

Obama is going to his secret meeting so he can whine about the “bitter clingers” who just don’t understand his good intentions.
The administration is so in bed with these guys that they snore in harmony!

“This post was updated after being told GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt will not be attending the meeting.” Cap and Trade failure got him down? Awww… My windmillz!!

The fact is, our government, spurred on by some big business have legislated jobs out of our country, like incandescent light bulbs, and shipped them overseas. These people are taking control of not only economies, but of governments as well. Google overthrows Egypt? Will Facebook depose the Bahrain leadership? And Twitter topple Saudi Arabia?
All this while our govt cooks the books to hide the fact that unemployment and inflation are still dangerously high and our country is deep trouble.

schmidt’s done give his job to Jobbs

Obama wants America DEAD.

Come on everybody. Obama did want to revolutionize america before he became president. He was naive now he has continued some things Bush has started and slowly become wiser. Although I would never vote for him. He doesn’t want America to end. He just wants the gov’t's hands in everything. To be honest I’m sure his work in the cyber world and as far as technology is concerned will help continue to be innovative.

OBOMO will probaly ask them to fund the education bill why not they are drones

you guys are all tools.

Apple has a bite taken out on their logo apple, apparently celebrating the fall in the garden of Eden and Lucifer’s success (new age Gnosticism). Google appears to be storing info on everyone for future Big Brother reasons. Schmidt often travels to the bizarre occultic Burning Man hippie-like cult event each year with his gal-friend (but he stays in Reno for nicer rooms). Greedy Zuckerberg may be the most dangerous, esp. since he stole the idea for Facebook. If a Republican is elected in 2012 to save the nation, social sites may cause a riot/revolution much worse than Egypt. Mixing these guys with Obama is a Nazi-like nightmare in the making.

The rabble are out in force. The Beck-ers, the “America is bankrupt!” economic morons, all of them. Some of the racial nattering is repulsive. You all offer America nothing. These three men would be fascinating to talk to, wouldn’t they, for their vision of the country’s future?
We are working up a debt as we go on because the conservative movement finds it politically attractive to undo the New Deal. The theology of “small government” goes on. Method: lower the top tax rate massively, in fact, irresponsibly, guaranteeing that government income will not be big enough. Then, when a Republican administration has collapsed the economy and weakened the government, move in offering more of the same. Eventually, you’ll have the old people living on charity, and you will win, because of the theology of modern conservatism: they look back at the ‘liberty’ of the 1890s wave of monopolism and laissez-faire, and allow our corporations to run havoc, searching the best deal with the cheapest labor, not acting like American corporations in any way.
The New Deal put up barriers to exploitation. It led, eventually, to the most widely-shared, innovative and prosperous era in American history: the post-New Deal era. Conservative theory has managed to erode the American middle class, so we’re in a precipitous decline. Our businesses are international, with their allegiance to the bottom line: they give bonuses to the billionaires who run them and 40 bucks a week to the assembler, and no factory in America.

Reminds me of the former Soviet Union right after it fell apart. Saw lots of collusion among government officials, the oligarchs of big business, and the mafia. The fact that Obama privately meets with leaders of major corporations is very troublesome. All communication of this sort should be open to the press. After all, who knows what they’re up to. Plus, the President reports to us not the other way around — or is this a dictatorship now. Will the oligarchs be giving major bucks to Obama’s re-election campaign in exchange for government contracts, which might include using technology to control or spy on the American people? Whatever happened to the transparency Obama promised? I suppose that promise became a lie like so many others (e.g., shovel-ready jobs, closing Gitmo, getting out of Afghanistan, regulating Wall St., cutting spending, ending lobbying, ending earmarks, etc., etc.). The problems of Main Street are the last thing on Obama’s mind — if actions still speak louder than lying words.

So many of the comments here are such a sad reflection of the U.S. education system.

new investments in research and development, education and clean energy,” run cars on methane from zuckerberg B.S

Jake,
Same thing happened last year in SF. And I believe Obama tried to get Jobs to attend too. He did not want to come IIRC, because these shindigs are cover jobs to get support for cap and trade.

I voted for Obama, but I’m getting sick of all the PR he does, and the lack of results. Why is he meeting with these guys? What the hell are they gonna do? I live 2 miles from Apple and you know what I see, a bunch of foreigners working there. These guys don’t care about americans, they care about making money for themselves and they aren’t willing to pay American wages to do that. They might as well have the brothers from Dell there too, then all four of them could sit around with the Pres and talk about getting nothing done.

Someone called silicon valley Bagdad by the Bay. They PEGGED IT! It’s a shame, and it’s pathetic. And they may have brains, and money those execs, but they’re still selfish pricks who don’t give a damn about Americans, born and raised Americans being able to work and survive here, they go to all these other countries to recruit, instead of investing in America’s kids, and America’s education and job training…they don’t care. This is just another stupid PR move by the Pres to PRETEND he’s doing something….

This reminds me of another secret meeting
lets see . . . Jekyll Island and the Bildabergs mmmmm

So, how many pinheads does it take to screw the economy, absent CON-gress?
I guess we’ll find out…with ObaMao and Immelt on the same team it can’t get any worse…can it?
Also, I would like take this opportunity to publicly thank all those Republicrats that voted for extending the Un-patriot Act and clearly violating their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution.
I also want to report all my neighbors to Janet because they sure are acting suspicious.
Now if you will all excuse me I have an appointment with the TSA for a massage.

Jim H: Read your history. It’s the New Deal that partially got us into the mess that we’re in today. You can’t continue to give out entitlements and make everyone else pay for them. That’s what the New Deal did. If you are fortunate enough to know anyone who lived through that time, ask them. They’ll tell you that the country was coming out of the depression and New Deal only reversed it.

Linda C – Spot on.
Jim H: Read your history. It’s the New Deal that partially got us into the mess that we’re in today. You can’t continue to give out entitlements and make everyone else pay for them. That’s what the New Deal did. If you are fortunate enough to know anyone who lived through that time, ask them. They’ll tell you that the country was coming out of the depression and New Deal only reversed it.
This is what I was getting at in my earlier post. Our Government has taken in well over 10X as much in S.S. taxes as has been paid out yet every year we run massive budget deficits. Simply because of the New Deal. Of course it hasn’t helped that welfare went from being a safety net to Entitlements, or that Nixon signed into law COLA ( cost of living allowance ), which means all Government
expenditures grow each year without Congress needing to vote line by line for each increase. It all happens automatically without a vote!

is this ABC or the GOP? The President is tired of these companies outsourcing jobs to Indiaand China!

If this group can’t win the future, no one can. All we need is an IPhone app that can create about 350000 jobs per month.

More than half of all jobs are created are by very small companies, yet Mr. Obama has no interest in meeting with anyone representing small and micro-sized businesses.
Yet those are the type of businesses that happen to be least poised to easily handle sudden change. And most likely to quickly feel the impacts of any increase in taxes, as well as by excessive govt regulation.
So why hasn’t Mr. Obama ever had substantive and in depth meetings, with the owners of of truly small businesses?
To answer my own question, it’s because Mr. Obama doesn’t want to hear an earful of the truth. And especially not from those who won’t sing any of his praises, or offer him hefty campaign contributions, or feign some nonsense about his supposed “personal charisma and charm”, that the sycophant media gushes about all the time.
Aside from that, Mr. Obama seems to believe he has no obligation to reach out or listen to any segment of the citizenry that are unlikely to have voted for him. And among all the reasons stated above, that’s perhaps the most insidious of them all.

I wonder if Schmidt and Jobs will have a fist fight as representatives of iPhone and Android. Zuckerburg? He’ll just update his status.
Either that, or they will all kiss Obama’s butt. Obama is the control freak.

Political parties and the President aren’t the problem. RELIGION is the problem. We need to get rid of religion to get rid of the problems. All of the world’s problems are caused by RELIGION. There’s just as much hate in christianity as there is islam, and it’s becoming sickening. The current political climate in the U.S. has been escalated by christians, just as the political climate in the middle east has been escalated by the muslims. It is sickening to watch creatures capable of such amazing intellect act as ignorant as dogs salivating at the ring of a bell.

Enjoyable read no doubt but There is only one way to correct the current financial trouble of the USA but it is too painful and no one wants to look at it. It is far too easy to keep passing the buck to the next office rather than admitting failure and starting the pains taking process of repairing.
1- Close the borders and REMOVE all ILLEGALS
2- Bring BACK OUR Companies and JOBS
3- Give tax Penalty instead of tax break to big corps that wish to produce goods off shore
Penalize those such as JP Morgan and the Buffets who feel the need to INVEST out of country rather than at home. Their trillions of dollars would certainly go far if invested at home.
The Free Trade Agreement has done nothing but destroy the American Middle class and now not only did we give all the jobs to their countries they still pour over the border creating more tax burden on an already beaten down economy.

Thanks for the info on that. I wrote it off as just another expense, but I am about to have a look at it again.