Citizens' Daily Lobby

Big business was out in force this week to push its agenda with Congress.    In “private meetings,” CEOs of several large corporations pushed to get the same tax breaks that small business is given in the jobs bill.  To paraphrase the few quotes that have leaked, the corporate message was “When we’re happy, small business is happy.”   Corporate America has no game plan but trickle down economics.  Credit goes to Harry Reid for being somewhat incredulous.

These are the 11 invitees to the Wednesday meeting: John J. Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable, an industry trade group; David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Michael T. Duke, CEO of Wal-Mart Stores; William Green, CEO of Accenture; Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric Company; Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Company; Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman Kodak Company; Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T; and Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications.  Corporate leaders also met with President Obama, privately, on Tuesday.

What is really going on here is that the big fish in the lake aren’t too happy about giving the small fry a fair chance.   What seems clear is that the companies listed above should not be privately lobbying Congress with their hands out.  Frankly, nobody should be “privately” lobbying Congress or the President.  The American public deserves to know what Big Business is saying to our leaders.

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