Caterpillar CEO Directly Contradicts Obama Claim - 2/12/09

[LedZeppelin13k7]

obama is going to use our money to buy CAT now just because he was talking shit.

[generationll]

Jim Owens didnot lie.The current occupant in the oval office did.DUMBO obama has Never worked in the private sector,NEVER ran a business,NEVER met a payroll,NEVER punched a time clock.

[wqvsaa]

LOL..............This video is worth revisiting after the unemployment rate rose to 9.5%.

It is clear that the obomba stimulus plan was and is a dismal failure and a sign of what to expect in the future from this administration.

[abbienetvision]

Just another day and another Obama lie.  That should have been his platform, a lie a day.

[alvinox73]

Employee revolt in Caterpillar france !!

[blanckepi]

Obama the rookie president did not mean a single fucking thing that his teleprompter told him to say about his "plan" for a economic recovery.

All kinds of businesses seem to fail and lay off their employees whenever a Democrat gets elected president with a Democratic majority in congress. This was true with Carter, then Clinton, and now Obama.

[Geographer76]

One

Big

Ass

Mistake

America

[TheDieselDr]

I love it!!!! so so true So unfortunate for the Cat employees I blame the EPA? (Gore's Goons) they put Caterpillar out of the on highway truck engine business! just like Obama he's trying too "change" too much too fast,, Kennedy tried that and look where it got him... I've noticed one thing about change. not many things ever change for the better. alot of people can't even grasp the concept of how much a trillion dollars really is, I guess his solution will be to just print more

[greeneggs83]

Obama=Liar

[ClassicFIHD]

You go Obama. FYI they just announced that this particular Caterpillar plant will be laying off 900 employees.

[VicDiMoneJr]

stimulus bill stimulates fornication...300M to contraception baby!

[darkistartist]

Jim Owens obviously does not care about the 22,000 Caterpillar employees who lost their jobs. He is a multi-billionaire.

[theoracledelphi]

Is it just me, or is Obama living in a dream world? I mean, please, someone slap me because I'm either stupid, or I am actually alive and really right.

[AlaricRose]

Way to fill people with false hope, Mr. President.

[EarlGood]

What was the question the reporter asked Jim? Sounds like "do you think the stimulus package will stop the 22,000 layoffs or no?"...?

[AssHatSockPuppet]

Word...Just Words....

like deficit

pork spending

more Acorn funding

taxes

[stamporomano]

Nice work Jake

[soyyosisoy]

this is sooo bad sooo far sooo soon, is soooo creeepy. YES WE CAN!

[040895]

You import stupid, you get stupid. And now they are voting! The shit is going to hit the fan soon. And when it does "i'm hoping" those in the media go down first.

[dfjkl1]

We had 8 years of stupid. We are finally getting some intelligence in government now.

[Geographer76]

If you consider 4 trillion in Federal debt "intelligence". Apparently we were better off with stupid.

[dfjkl1]

....again, lack of reality. We are in this mess BECAUSE of stupid.

[Geographer76]

And we continue in this mess due to continuing stipd.

[averitas]

How many CAT employees were just laid off? Over 20,000. Fact.

What does that reality tell you?

Would you care to comment on the content of the video vs. the outcome?

I know, give him time, give the man a chance.

[dfjkl1]

This is not Obama's fault. So yeah, give him a chance. Jeez, he's been President what, just over 2 months?! Bush had 8 years to try to destroy the country. A little hard to clean that mess up overnight.

[bigdaveCP]

yea Obama is an Asshole, giving people hope that's not there and making fun of the special olympics...yea he's REAL good

[dfjkl1]

Get real and pull your head out of your anal cavity. First off, context, it was funny, and I'm sure you've said something like it or know someone who has. Second, your going to poke at Obama for verbal slips? Now that is funny. Third, when are you people going to wake up and realize that your hero is the one that boned you right now?! Bush and Cheney did their best to DESTROY this country for their own selfish interests! Wake up people. Turn off Fox for awhile and actually open your eyes.

[bigdaveCP]

You know damn well if Bush said that CNN and NBC would crucify him but since it was BitchBama it's funny. He's the president of the U.S., you can't say that shit. Example if I used a racist black joke around him would that be funny? No cuz a white person said it to a black. He not being handicapped said a physical/mental disorder joke to the nation and its funny? Yea get your head out of "Changes" ass

[dfjkl1]

Mine is breathing air as opposed to yours, as you have apparently been under a rock the last 8 years w/ an idiot in chief that had some of the most atrocious and inappropriate screw-ups of any recent president. What is it with the Bush white-washing? Reality is his administration left us in this shape.

[Geographer76]

Bush is gone, get over it, you no longer have a target in him. Obama is the man on the spot and there is n reason to give him and special break. He signed on for the job. So he needs to shit or get off the pot.

[dfjkl1]

He is doing what he can. Reality, Bush spent 8 years destroying the country. That argument is just juvenile and unrealistic. That's like saying that the guy who burnt down a house is not responsible for it because someone else is rebuilding it. That doesn't mean that the guy who burnt it down didn't burn it down and isn't responsible for it. You are ridiculous.

[Geographer76]

It's really comical that the libs spouted their BS about how great the economy was during the Clinton years and how Clinton did everything right and even cite the Dow as an indicator, but now that Bush did even better than Slick Willie all of a sudden the evidence Clinton used is not useable by the Repubs. Obama is currently mortgaging your great grandkids futures, and like Clinton, Obama is already using what all of Congress is calling "Over optimistic" predictions.

[dfjkl1]

Reality check. First, you signify the main problem with politics today, looking at it as a sports team, one against the other. Second, while Clinton's Pres. had issues, Bush Jr. made Clinton look great. Reality - real wages went up for everyone under Clinton. Not true under Bush. Bush has already mortgaged our kids future. Someone has to do something about it. Your gross disconnect from any reality is really disturbing.

[bigdaveCP]

You talk of us "bashing" obama and your bashing bush you fucking idiot. But hey Obama did bring us CHANGE, just in the shitter deeper than we were!!! Thanks dtjkl1, your a real winner in society. Plus he's anti gun so fuck bama

[dfjkl1]

Look in the mirror if you want an idiot and a loser. He's not anti-gun. He's not pro-gun either. See...he's someone that actually is not treating politics like this stupid game that the rest of you are, it's about actually solving our real problems. ..and Bush has an 8 year record of nothing good deserving analysis. Obama has been in there just over 2 months with a load of crap dumped in his lap. He deserves a chance to actually get this right. and so far, he's doing good. That is reality

[bigdaveCP]

How can you be neither pro or anit gun? He likes to sit in the middle like a pussy and not take a side so he can't be wrong. That makes a good president right? At least Bush took a stance on a point a stuck to it even if he looked bad because he has a set of balls unlike obama

[blanckepi]

Here's reality for you - Obama will keep whining like an effeminate man-child ad nauseam about his "inheritance" of the shitty economy from Bush 43, all while gradually making it worse himself with his Marxist ideals driving the policies of administration, and if anybody like me criticizes him at any time during his administration, for any reason, people like you will play the race card and/or call us derogatory names.

[Geographer76]

Yes you are delusional. since you some how have decided that finding fault with Obama equals defense of Bush. But feel free to carry on in your fantasy world.

[crocobull]

Are you still in your fantasy world? Or

you living on more welfare?

[Geographer76]

Obama is doing his best to destroy whats left of this country. The Dems in Congress are wiping out the worlds greatest economy and laying the blame at the feet of AIG over $165 million when Obama and congress threw away $4 trillion.

[dfjkl1]

Exactly the opposite. Bush has already wiped out our economy and they are doing what they can to pick up the pieces of it. You want money pissed away? Look no further than Iraq or the Bush energy subsidies.

[Geographer76]

When Bush left office there was a half trillion dollar debt, now there is a 4 and ahlf trillion dollar debt.. Obama orchestrated more spending than the U.S. has had over the past 250 years. This current debacle is all his.

[dfjkl1]

Try again. Reality continues to escape you. Bush left more like a 1.5 trillion+ mess. He was blowing millions a month on Iraq alone. Bush had the largest gov't expansion in modern day. This is BUSH's mess, undeniably. Denying that is denying reality.

[Geographer76]

Try again, Obama himself admitted that he inherited a weak economy and a $500billion deficit. I guess you are correct in your bizzarro world anyway, I guess a Dow over 11,000 is really the sign of a weak economy. I was more concentrated on Obamas BS session tonight when he put the lie to his lower taxes promise from the campaign.

[dfjkl1]

No, again, where the hell are you pulling this b.s. He himself admitted to over a trillion in deficit he received. ...and you finally admitted he inherited crap, nice to see you are waking up to reality just a slight bit. In what reality did you see tonight as "b.s."? ..and in what reality could you believe a word Bush had said after all of his lies were proven as lies?! Guess you only listened to the Fox spin afterwards instead of the actual conference.

[dfjkl1]

...and if you had any clue, you would realize that the DOW is really only an indication of how people's bets are working, not a TRUE indicator of the economy. The Dow dropping or rising doesn't change what happens at any one company from day to day.

[Geographer76]

Obama is a valid target for every verbal slip as well as all the other stupidity he commits apparently you have a short memory. Verbal slips were the first gaffes the liberals opened fire on Bush about. Liberals keep whining about giving Obama a chance. I am and every chance he gets he screws up more and more. By 2012, he will look even worse than Bush after 8 years.

[dfjkl1]

Quite the opposite. I have quite a long memory. This "liberal/conservative" argument is a farce propagated by networks like Fox to distract people from real problems in our country and to completely whitewash the real damage done by the idiots that just left office. He screws up?! He has only been on office TWO MONTHS!! BUSH screwed up ALL 8 YEARS!! ..and what has Obama really screwed up?! By all accounts he's doing quite well w/ the crap pie he was fed. Wake up. Politics is not a game.

[Geographer76]

You have a shorter memory then you think, the economy was doing fine (highest market point in history) right up to the '06 midterms. Then Congress fell to the Democrats (in case you forgot, the House of Reps is where spending bills begin) and the Dems have been writing the spending bills since November '06. Oddly enough, November '06 is when the current down-turn started. Now Obama is piling more spending on top of the debt already incurred, and libs like you are still, falsely blaming Bush.

[dfjkl1]

Again, wrong as usual. My memory is perfectly intact while you have proven you are brainwashed. The Congress "fell" because the R's did NOTHING that you have claimed. Economy was down before that. ..and even the blips did NOTHING for the majority of Americans. Reality, under Bush most American's real pay has gone down, all household items have went up, energy at record high rates ALONG with subsidies to the companies raping us. I didn't forget, but reality, not all actually begin there.

[Geographer76]

Apparently you missed his speech where he accepted responsibility, so now its all his like it or not.

[dfjkl1]

Apparently you are a child and can't fathom a world where reality exists. Yes, it's his problem to fix. It's not the problem he created though. That is reality. Denying that only admits stupidity.

[Geographer76]

This post is too stupid to merit comment.

[dfjkl1]

Which applies to all of your posts as you demonstrate your complete lack of comprehension of reality.

[040895]

Sounds like Obama thinks his cult has enough koolaid in them to not understand a simple lie like this! You can see nothing but shit on his teeth when he speaks, cause he is one of the best at bullshiting. All bow before the great one!

[dennisferncez]

Saw this last night. Obama is so full of shit. It would take a complete moron to believe anything this asshat says.

[Southernjuggalo63]

@dennisferncez thats why he runs as a democrat lol

[unocomm]

Give Obama a break? Imagine Bush saying the same thing? They would be all over him and calling him a liar. YES WE CAN YES WE CAN. YES WE DID?

[milla925]

YES YOU CAN AND YES YOU DID screw our country by voting for this guy. That is not something to be proud of. Please stop saying that crap!

[soyyosisoy]

Milla925 I think UNOCOMM is just being sarchastic. Hes saying that if Bush said something like this everybody would be shouting LIAR LIAR, You see how stupid he is! and how out of touch? And then he says Yes we did? as to ask: why did we vote for this guy?

[dfjkl1]

No. The people who re-elected Bush are the ones who screwed our country and now Obama is the only one even ATTEMPTING to clean up the mess the asshats that proceeded him left. Pull your head out of your ass and wake up.

[milla925]

You really are naive if you believe that this is all Bush's fault. I'll admit that the Bush admin. spent too much and didn't keep a close enough eye on the mortgage crisis but democrats were the ones telling banks lend to everybody. Obama is just piling on trillions of debt with a dumb plan that doesn't even get to the heart of the economic problem which is bank's fear of lending money. If Obama keeps on the path he's on things might actually get as bleak as he constantly describes them.

[dfjkl1]

You've just proven yourself naive by completely whitewashing the catastrophe of the last 8 years and dumping on the guy who got stuck w/ the mop. Republicans were not stopping the lending as it directly led to benefiting all of their established interests. The reason we have no money left to work with falls square in the lap of GWBush. If not for wasteful spending, poor regulation and oversight, and IRAQ...we might be in survivable shape. As of right now we have a mess that Obama wants to fix

[dogncatmom]

If it was not for the war in Iraq we would have been blown away here years ago. We will be blown away here soon. We have become the laughingstock of the world and Obama's foreign policy expertise (or should I say lack of expertise) is putting us all in danger. Iran fired off a satellite the other day. They now have the capacity for a nuclear bomb, and Obama wants to rub noses with them and give them an Eskimo kiss.

[dfjkl1]

Now I know you are full of it and only getting the info from Fox Noise as you have it all wrong. Iraq was NOT a threat. It is Bush and Cheney that have made us a laughing stock. Obama has a far better grasp on foreign affairs than even Bush could dream. You subscribe to the "team politics"/"politics as a football game" mentality that is destroying this nation.

[dogncatmom]

I do not even have cable. I get all my info online. You are the one who has no idea what you are talking about.

[dfjkl1]

From an obviously very narrow minded perspective. You have already proven you are absolutely clueless. Spouting Limbaugh does not lend anyone any credibility nowadays. Obama has been President for barely over a month yet he is to blame for this mess? I hardly think so. Pull your head out of your behind and take a look at reality.

[ClassicFIHD]

"Iraq was NOT a threat" Bill Clinton and John Kerry said they were MANY TIMES!

[bootlegpreacher]

You had me until the 'Obama wants to fix' part. He's loving this mess. Never waste a good crisis.

[minowekay]

Sure, of course they'd call Bush a liar. But then Bush had already held several jobs. As governor of Texas, for instance, he had made decisions before. You can't expect Obama to do anything well, other than read from a teleprompter.

[dfjkl1]

Oh please. Bush didn't hold any job of any significance and he most certainly never accomplished anything without the help of his daddy. OTOH Obama is a self-made man. Bush IS a liar who did NOTHING well as President. What is wrong with you people?!

[Geographer76]

And what jobs has Obama held? "Community organizer", an adjunct instructor at his alma mater, and then a politician? Give it a break, Obama hasn't held a real job, and he hasn't even tried. Bush worked, albeit for a short period, in the texas oil fields, and managed a Baseball team. Granted these were not typical "jobs", but they were a hell of a lot closer to actual employment than ANYTHING Barry ahd done. Obama is a phony and an empty suit playing the political scam, nothing more.

[dfjkl1]

You give it a break. He's held more real jobs that he's gotten on his own power than Bush ever did. In the end though, all that matters is that he's got his head on straight and that he can do the job because the reality is there is no "job" that can prepare you for that one. If anything, he's shown that he's more prepared for it than any of the last few presidents.

[Geographer76]

The State Department disagrees. Yesterday Obama made a speach on foreign policy with Iran and the State Department issued a statement that contradicted Obama. The head of Obama isn't on straight. In fact based several of his comments during the campaign, he's now spinning like a top.

[dfjkl1]

Again, not paying attention and distorting reality. He's so far done more to keep campaign promises than any recent President. The message on Iran has been consistent throughout.

[Geographer76]

Only in your Bizzaro world. Obama has indeed kept a consistent message on Iran, consistently niave in that Obama keeps babbleing about dialog and Iran keep telling him to piss off.

[dfjkl1]

Only in a bizzaro world would you even come to that conclusion. Thinking you can go to war w/ the world "just for the hell of it" is naive which has left us where we are at currently. You are smoking something, Obama has been practicing what he preached ESPECIALLY in relation to Iran. Get out of whatever distortion field your head is in.

[Geographer76]

We did not go to war with the "world", that you assert such a thing reveals that you are delusional. Your selective memory is laughable. Obama is doing what he can? You mean giving the keys to the treasury over to the banks? That's one hell of a way to get out of debt giving the treasury over to the thieves that already robbed us blind. As for Bush, I never said he didn't lie, but Bush is ancient history now. This is Obamas recession and if he keeps it up it will be his depression.

[dfjkl1]

Not only are you delusional and unable to grasp reality but now also unable to read clearly (I guess that explains a lot). Point was if it were up to Bush we would be at war with the world instead of trying to find solutions to problems. It was BUSH who gave away the country to the Corp. interests and Obama is trying to clean it up. This IS Bush's depression, that is reality. ..and it was BUSH who let banks and wall st. rob us blind. You have only defended Bush at every point bashing Obama.

[KarmicOmen]

So when Bush took office in 2000, whose recession was Clinton's! Just as responsible for the banking fiasco are Barney "Dough Boy" Frank and Chris "Crooked Dude" Dodd. Incidentally, an email just uncovered by The Washington Times, was sent by Dodd asking for contributions to his campaign from AIG employees and spouses. AIG gave Dodd $165,000! What did AIG get in return? They got a stipulation in the stimulus package allowing them to keep their $165 million in bonuses!

[minowekay]

C'mon people, give Obama a break. After all, this IS his first real job, the first time in his life he has ever had to make a decision that affected anyone but himself. A few mistakes, even trillion-dollar mistakes, are to be expected.

Now shut up and be patriotic: pay your taxes. Unless, of course, you think Barack might appoint you to head some department in the federal bureaucracy. If that's the case, then...never mind.

[BigBird1017]

Yes, but they don't have any Caterpillar tractors back in Obama's birth country of Kenya...but, I digress. It looks like Caterpillar CEO James Owens just blew his chance to be Commerce Secretary. I understand Julio Oseguedo, formerly of McDonald's, is being interviewed for the Cabinet position as we speak.

[RESILIENT1AMERICA]

He should have just went along with Obama's lie ?

[ClassicFIHD]

RESILIENT1AMERICA, Wrote:

'He should have just went along with Obama's lie" Why? Just becasue most of the country did.

[minowekay]

That is sooo nice. Do you suppose he'll get a house. I mean, you know, one with a KITCHEN??

[unocomm]

This is a story that will be repeated over and over again. Mr. Obama you are so disconnected from reality.

[ClassicFIHD]

Not on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and all the other major networks.

[KCUAC]

this was ABC

[ClassicFIHD]

I think it was just on thier web site (dot)com.  Note the logo abcNEWS(dot)com.

[RonFella]

The CEO of Caterpillar basically says to Obama "you want to cap my salary and take away my jet and then you expect me to back you and help your plan to succeed? How naive can you be?"

At least LBJ was old enough to understand he had to embrace the Captians of Industry in order to succed rather than alienate them as Obama has done. I mean think about it right? If the guys Obama needs to create the jobs needed to make his plan succed have a vested intrest in it failing why would they do it?

[dfjkl1]

Because the big dollar execs are not really needed. If they all want to take their ball and go home there are just as many talented people who can do tehir job and not have 7 figures in their salary.

[CopaseticSniper]

Owens is a PUTTS!!!!!

[JoeLoro]

Obama is a blithering idiot. a complete moron. He has no clue how to govern, and especially no clue how the economy works and how hard those IN the economy work. This idiot never had a job in his life (unless being an ACORN lawyer targeting successful companies a job - but I don't). This package will guarantee that all Americans live like everyone in inner city poverty. Great Job moron,.

[dfjkl1]

You have no clue.

[Mrd006]

lol

[dogncatmom]

Love it! Obama is a fool, and the stimulus package will not work.

[dfjkl1]

If it doesn't it will have something to do w/ those Republicans trying to shove all the same crap into the bill that got us into this mess in the first place.

[dogncatmom]

You obviously have no idea what is even in the bill do you? If you do tell me what a RAT is?

[dfjkl1]

Enlighten me. The reality is this President is the only one interested in actually attempting to help out the American people from what we've had in quite awhile. For all the crap Obama is catching everyone seems to forget this is NOT HIS MESS! The Republican's themselves have yanked infrastructure spend out of the bill.

[dogncatmom]

I do not know where you get your information. This economic downturn can be laid squarely at the feet of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Who is responsible for that mess? The Community Reinvestment Act. As for RAT, Obama is making the inspector generals political for the first time in history. The whole purpose of an inspector general is to prevent politics from entering into the process but now he is going to appoint someone who is going to tell the inspector general who he can prosecute.

[dfjkl1]

Sounds to me like your info is coming direct from Fox Noise. This is not all the Fannie/Freddie mess. This is much more than that.

[dogncatmom]

My info comes from about 40 different sources. Do you even know that the Dems were in control of Congress the last two years? Do you even know that ACORN forced banks to lend money to people they knew could not afford the mortgages?

Do you know that we had a run on our banks in September and no one knows who did it?

Do you know what exactly the stimulus bill stimulates?

[dfjkl1]

...and all those sources are likely owned by Rupert Murdoch. ACORN has been transformed into this entity that is all-powerful in the nutso wings of the media like they can do anything. They are basically just another organization. They forced no one to do anything. The sub-prime fleecing was not caused by them. The stimulous would stimulate a lot more if not for the Republicans yanking building and introducing more worthless tax cuts into it.

[Geographer76]

ACORN has a website, in it that have a PDF file that addresses some of the criticisms leveled at ACORN. According to the contents of the PDF file items such as the voter fraud they are accused of were made. Further they say that ACORN is totally blameless and that all the wrongdoing was done by other agencies, the Federal Elections and local election officials. So we are supposed to believe that ACORN is pure as the driven snow and that all wrong doing was on the part of the Gov't????

[dfjkl1]

So when it's Obama bashing, it's the governments fault, nm he didn't create the current problems, but otherwise, it's all ACORN? ACORN has no significant role here...nothing to see, straw man, move along.

[Geographer76]

Except that ACORN is a sham and guilty of criminal activity. And in Obamas own words they are "shaping public policy"