Tinned-Ear Obama

I got so steamed with this double shot of recent news,

(1) multinational behemoth General Electric paid 0 taxes on its 2010 $14.2 billion profits, nearly $5 billion of which was on U.S. operations and salt-in-the-wound rubbingly gets a $3.2 billion U.S. tax benefit (damn! gag! retch!!!), and

(2) President Barack Obama rewards GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt for this kind of unbelievably baldfaced, unpatriotic and unAmerican chicanery--legal or otherwise--by appointing him chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,

that I sent Obama an email. (Ha! For whatever good THAT will do, delusional girl that I am.)

Here's what I wrote:  Dear President Obama:

You know, it's bad enough that corporations like GE pay no U.S. taxes and even get tax credits while poor, working middle- and lower-income schmucks not only pay taxes, but have to shoulder the tax burden of tax skaters like GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt. But when you rub our noses in that kind of affront by appointing freeloading Immelt to a council that's related to JOBS and advises you on a competitive business strategy, you are not only doing average Americans a disservice, you are shedding past and what otherwise might be prospective voters like the Titanic shed passengers. Your ear for listening to Americans--loyal, patriotic, taxpaying Americans, not unpatriotic, unAmerican, leeches like Immelt--has turned to tin.

Want to boycott GE products? They're listed here:  http://www.ge.com/products_services/

And if you don't want to stop watching NBC, CNBC or MSNBC which NBC owns, you can stop buying goods and services advertised on those networks, and send a letter to Corporate Public Relations Director for any product advertised on NBC or CNBC or MSNBC telling them you will not buy THEIR products until GE starts ponying up its fair share.