Obama to meet executives, go to Pennsylvania for fiscal push

[No Elephants]

div class=excerpt] Obama to meet executives, go to Pennsylvania for fiscal push

WASHINGTON | Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:50am EST

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama will launch a multipronged push this week to garner support for his proposals to solve U.S. fiscal problems, meeting with business executives at the White House and visiting a small business in Pennsylvania to press his case.

Obama has sought to go on the offensive since his re-election on November 6 in the fight with Republicans over the "fiscal cliff" - a combination of tax increases and spending cuts that would go into effect next year if the two sides do not reach a deal to stop it.

As part of that effort, the White House released a report on Monday showing the impact that middle class tax increases would have on consumers and the retail industry.

On Tuesday, a White House official said, the president will meet with a group of small-business owners. On Wednesday he will host an event with "middle class Americans who would be impacted if Congress fails to act to extend the middle class tax cuts," the official said. He will also hold a meeting with business leaders, something he has done previously.

[Enthusiast]

1. Business executives?

I guess their voices don't get heard enough. And they have such good advice.

[No Elephants]

2. Well, he mentioned a new Cabinet position, Secretary of Business.

Secretary of Commerce and the entire Dept. of Commerce just get enough done for businesses.

We need a whole new department, to help out GE, which doesn't even pay taxes, as it turns out, and which so convinced Ronald Reagan that small government was needed that he ran for President to give it to them.

http://www.ge.com/reagan/

Tone deaf?