Shimon Peres Quotes
I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
Peres, Shimon. Address at the World Economic Forum. Davos, Switzerland. Speech.
The National Chamber of Commerce claims that the represent American business and indeed many business men and women join their local Chamber of Commerce, never realizing that the National Chamber of Commerce is controlled by partisan political ideologues who mainly represent the largest of corporations. The leaders have extreme egos and spend millions of dollars from the local chambers to put themselves on television with their own TV studios and ignoring the interest of most small businesses. When Hollings made this quotation, he felt that many large companies were moving their manufacturing and packaging to China. This not only exported the jobs of American workers, but hurt small businesses who could no longer sell the large companies packaging material, printing, sub assembly of even supply parts. The nut and bolt manufacturer in Peoria no longer sells the nuts and bolts to an American Manufacturer as the Chinese make their own nuts and bolts. Even small training companies had few workers to train. But the National Chamber of Commerce took the money from small business as they lobbied hard for the expansion of business with China. The National Chamber, never puts its policies to a vote of its member companies or the small companies would out vote the larger ones and the monopolies whom the Chamber national executives mainly serve.
Conservatives generally do not have a problem with the businesses of the country exercising a great deal of control over the government, but the left wing usually does. However, when it is multinational corporations that pressure the government, then nationalist conservatives are distressed and join with the left lest “foreigners” control things rather than their own rich people.
Brightstar, owned by Sprint, had 70 percent of the Venezuelan cell telephone market when leftist and anti-American Hugo Chavez was the President of Venezuela. The company served it’s Venezuelan customers well at competitive prices and created many jobs at all levels for Venezuelans. Chavez allowed them to stay in the market.
He was one of the first to recognize this phenomenon. See the related quotes for others who were early observers of the coming changes.
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician who served both as ninth President of Israel, (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel, as well as Interim Prime Minister. He was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning nearly 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, was in office continuously until 2007, when he became President, being in that role for another seven years. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state. He was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
