Bush Receives High Approval Rating from Autodesk

As a Canadian, I don't have an opinion on leaders of other countries (unlike Canadian Neil Young singing his disapproval of a foreign leader), but news reports indicate that the US president's approval rating is low.

This week, Autodesk still-CEO Carol Bartz and a number of other heads of tech companies made a video speaking their approval of George Bush. "'After several tough years, tech is bouncing back," Bartz is quoted in Mac Daily News. "This is due in no small measure to this administration's pro-growth policies."

I can see why they prefer the Republican party: "John Kerry [of the opposition Democratic party] has ... told the AFL-CIO [trade union] that he is critical of excessive executive compensation...".

Comments

[Mike]

Lonnie,
Now, now, now, don't blame it on the republican for Chinas rise.

I work for a small integrater with customers who are located here in the states and also Mexico and China. You'd be surprised at how much semi-automated and automated equipment is actually being done in both of the "slave wage" countries. China will surpass Mexico in the coming years with automated machinery.

[Lonnie Woodall]

Mike,
As efficient as our robots are, we don't sell a lot of them to countries like China. It's just to hard to justify the price of a robot when you have so many people working for slave wages. If the repubulicans stay in office much longer, we'll have the same problem here.

[Mike]

Lonnie,

Your email address is from Motoman.com. Are you saying you won't sell robots to your customers who are investing in China everyday? Smart move, let Seiko and Yamaha sell them the robots.

[Lonnie Woodall]

WOW! How could a CEO with such stellar credentials make such an incredibly stupid comment? Carol obviously doesn't live in Ohio where over 10,000 manufacturing and engineering jobs have been lost since Bush occupied the oval office. I will never buy another Autodesk product. Let Carol go make her money in China!

[Patrick EMIN]

For sure, George knows how to open new markets in far, far away countries, and everyone knows before rebuilding, you must think destructing. I must say there is a logic behind that, even if there is no moral.