Apparently Jeff Immelt and the GE p.r. machine have.........ahhhh........lied like rugs about expatriating all sorts of GE operations.
Well, Immelt's a close pal of Obozo, so lying ain't no surprise.
...State Rep. Scott Allen (R) claimed in a press statement first reported by Waukesha blogger James Wigderson and later covered by RightWisconsin that he was contacted by a GE official and asked if he would help the company use the announcement for political purposes....
That is to say: GE wants Ex-Im welfare checks, so this cock-and-bull story about not funding Ex-Im causing the plant closure is exactly that: bullshit.
And it ain't the first time for GE.
....The Washington Examiner reports
that a September 15 GE announcement that it will create 400 jobs in
France, something it began work on in May 2014 when GE CEO Jeffery
Immelt announced plans
to expand corporate operations in Europe, was said by the company to be
the result of the Ex-Im Bank’s expiration. If the Ex-Im Bank expired in
June 2015, then a plan that was devised in May 2014 couldn’t be the
result of anything that happened more than a year later.
The Washington Free Beacon on Monday reported
that GE had similarly said that 1,000 new UK jobs were the result of
Ex-Im expiration even though another GE official told Reuters that, “it
was unlikely that GE would have made the investments in the United
States even if Ex-Im had been operating.”...
In short: GE is moving out of the US, bit by bit, ExIm or no ExIm. Of course, they'll still be happy to take US consumer dollars, thankyouverymuch!
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