Email from a friend- re Jeff Immelt [View all]
I'll just post the text. Don't think there are any copyright violations. Any help in refuting or contexturalizing the facts appreciated. Snopes says 'true' but this does NOT look good.
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"GE Leaving Wisconsin for .......
Keep your eye
on Waukesha , Wisconsin ......Their biggest employer just moved out.
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from
Waukesha , Wis. , to Beijing .
In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in
China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers.
This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year, but
paid no taxes
- the same company that employs more people overseas than it does
in the United States .
So let me get this straight.
President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt
to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help
create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was
supposed to be creating those jobs.
Thanks Jeff, you're a "real" American....give Barrack our Best!
If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I
don't know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it
before you buy a GE product."
---Actually pre snopes they aren't getting RID of any jobs here, but still, WTF is wrong with this situation.