WASHINGTON | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6: 07 pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, trying to improve the relations with the business community, parties American CEO Wednesday to spend more large enterprises estimated 2 trillion dollars cash accumulate to boost U.S. employment and the economy.
"We focused on jobs and investment and feel optimistic that by working together, we can get money off the coast of the margin," Obama told journalists after more than four hours with 20 business leaders to discuss the creation of jobs.
Obama wanted to choose the brains of middle American business leaders believes that corporations are sitting on about 2 billion dollars that could be deployed to employ more U.S. workers.
Meeting with patterns of companies, including Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric Co., John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc. and Dave Cote, CEO of Honeywell International Inc., took place the u.s. Senate passed tax cuts requested by the companies.
Obama took his disagreement with large enterprises, especially on Wall Street and health care reforms and the meeting was seen as an opportunity to turn a new page.
"I think we have a chance for a fresh start here, and I think we are going to try to make" James McNerney, CEO of Boeing Co., said after the meeting.
Robert Wolf, Chief Executive, after the meeting, UBS Group Americas said he expected relations between businesses and the White House to be more positive in 2011.
McNerney told CNBC television that Obama asked their report in 30 to 45 days, with some ideas for reform and said that the corporate tax rate has been discussed "lots."
Obama has compromised with the Republicans in Congress on tax after the defeat of his party in the elections of the Congress in November. But his last opening of the business community not impress all the world.
Republican representatives House Leader John Boehner ridiculed the meeting and said that it shows "top-down approach Obama economy."
Bruce Josten, Executive Vice President for the Chamber of commerce of the United States Government Affairs said invite a group relatively small CEO promoted at the White House all if often does not equal real engagement with businesses.
"I think that they have reached a small framework business CEO since they have been here." They clearly are continuing to do this ", he said.
Executives want Obama to soften the they consider his rhetoric anti-business ton, go easy on regulation and sink the corporate tax code planned tax reform next year.
STRAINED RELATIONS
Relations were strained by the reforms undertaken say be improperly profits, as well as populist rhetoric that reached a point of failure when Obama pronounced against "fat cat" Wall Street bonuses last year.
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