Huff Post: Two People Corporate America and the GOP Should Listen to

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-d-hill/two-people-corporate_b_2902081.html?utm_hp_ref=business&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FBusiness+%28Business+on+The+Huffington+Post

Edwin D. Hill International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers


Speaker of the House John Boehner and his party's followers claim that if the Senate and the nation-at-large supported their policies, businesses would flourish and unemployed Americans would be headed back to work.

But over the past few weeks, those same policies have been strongly rebuked by a highly-respected lifelong Republican and a businessman celebrated for his profitable entrepreneurship.

Meet Sheila Bair, who served for five years as chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Craig Jelinek, the CEO of Costco Wholesaler, one of the country's top warehouse retailers, boasting a bigger market share than Sam's Club.

Bair describes herself as "a capitalist and a lifelong Republican." In an op-ed published in The New York Times, she slams Republican leaders for supporting policies that "[skew] income toward the upper, upper class." That "hurts our economy," she says, "because the rich tend to sit on their money -- unlike lower-and middle-income people, who spend a large share of their paychecks, and hence stimulate economic activity."

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[Scuba]

1. I think they should keep listening to the same people to which they've been listening.

[reformist2]

2. Me too. Forget trying to convert the GOP - they are dinosaurs.