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No Jobs For Americans at Heinz
By: Ruth Calvo Saturday December 4, 2010 3:38 am
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No Jobs for U.S. workers declares Bill Johnson, CEO at Heinz, on Wall Street Journal Report last Saturday
Last Saturday, the CEO of Heinz, best known for ketchup production, told Maria Bartiromo that Heinz will not be hiring Americans this year (at 3:55). The reason he gave was the ‘uncertainty’ produced by the ‘inability’ of the government to decide on really important things such as the tax rate his business will pay. He announced at the same time on the same program that Heinz will be opening facilities and hiring in other countries, and concentrated on China where they make soy sauce.
When you go to any fast food restaurant, you are likely to see his product in little packets. When you visit the grocery store you will find that Heinz enjoys vast amount of that vital shelf space. You are quite likely to have some of Heinz products in your home as well.
Fortunately, I have no taste for ketchup, so I am not a supporter of the services that are not giving any jobs to U.S. workers until the government gets with their program. I just checked, and my sweet relish (wonderful with ham sandwiches) is store brand. There will be no Heinz products in my home again, ever. . . .
The price of doing business in this country is so great that almost every existing business competes for the U.S. consumer with the well known profligacy in buying stuff. This country, instead of competing for the lowest standards of worker pay and benefits, should be taking advantage of the terrific market that our store shelves present.
Government is falling into a distortion of reality by abandoning public protections to attract business. The natural attraction of our consumer economy should be promoted, instead. I would suggest charging for business licenses, and banning products that do not promote our own economic health.
Heinz has pointed up a huge fallacy in our government’s role in regulating business. We need to start refusing business complicity with competitors to blackmail this country into unfriendly policies for our public. Businesses have warped into abusive lobbies with the profits they make from our markets. It’s past time to turn that on them, and demand that access to the profitable U.S. market be gained by promoting the public good instead of trampling on it for their ‘bottom line’ practices.
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Heinz has pointed up a huge fallacy in our government’s role in regulating business. We need to start refusing business complicity with competitors to blackmail this country into unfriendly policies for our public. Businesses have warped into abusive lobbies with the profits they make from our markets. It’s past time to turn that on them, and demand that access to the profitable U.S. market be gained by promoting the public good instead of trampling on it for their ‘bottom line’ practices.
I thought Barry was going to change this?
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We have a govt that is simply out of control and forcing businesses out of this country.
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I doubt knowing he's going to personally receive a tax break would change his mind about hiring Chinese workers to work in a Chinese factory making soy sauce
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I thought Barry was going to change this?
Haha...
He was also suppose to let the american people see the bill on the Interwebs for 5 days, before congress was allowed to vote on it. However, not even congress people can read the bill when 300 page amendments are filed at 3 am on the day of the vote.
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some people are crying because the millionaires running Heinz are about to lose the Bush rax cut.
They're getting the cut now, and they're giving american workers the finger already.
I'd say we should ONLY give the bush tax cuts to $1mil+ earners who bring/keep work to the USA. If you manufacture or move work overseas, you pay out the ass for it. The Bush Tariff, it could be called :)
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some people are crying because the millionaires running Heinz are about to lose the Bush rax cut.
They're getting the cut now, and they're giving american workers the finger already.
I'd say we should ONLY give the bush tax cuts to $1mil+ earners who bring/keep work to the USA. If you manufacture or move work overseas, you pay out the ass for it. The Bush Tariff, it could be called :)
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Not a bad idea.
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I'd say we should ONLY give the bush tax cuts to $1mil+ earners who bring/keep work to the USA. If you manufacture or move work overseas, you pay out the ass for it. The Bush Tariff, it could be called :)
totally agree.
Also, I think that those "earners" who create jobs in the US should get even further tax breaks. If we really want to allow the wealthy to stimulate the economy, take away the majority of breaks and just install this and you would see a huge turnaround in jobs staying home vice overseas. Hell, you could base it on a "per jobs created" scale.....and not "temp" jobs either, would not receive the breaks until employee was employed for 6 months or a year and if the position is eliminated, eliminate the tax break.
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totally agree.
Also, I think that those "earners" who create jobs in the US should get even further tax breaks. If we really want to allow the wealthy to stimulate the economy, take away the majority of breaks and just install this and you would see a huge turnaround in jobs staying home vice overseas. Hell, you could base it on a "per jobs created" scale.....and not "temp" jobs either, would not receive the breaks until employee was employed for 6 months or a year and if the position is eliminated, eliminate the tax break.
We can't due that because of the WTO and our creditors will never go for it. Sad but true.
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We can't due that because of the WTO and our creditors will never go for it. Sad but true.
Yep.....pitiful state we are in.
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We have a govt that is simply out of control and forcing businesses out of this country.
This has been happening long before the current administration. What can be done to bring production back to the US? Is it too late?
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This has been happening long before the current administration. What can be done to bring production back to the US? Is it too late?
It is very simple but wll NEVER happen.
Between the lawyers, the EPA, green terrorists, the idiotic media, etc etc we simply are a pussy nation committing suicide.
Sad but true.