罗伯塔。兰普顿
华盛顿(路透社)——美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)说,美国企业在他的经济政策下已经做得很好,但是首席执行官应该停止抱怨法规，并去承担更大的社会责任，他对《经济学人》杂志提到。
“如果你看看在过去四五年发生了什么事,处在权利顶端的人没权抱怨,”奥巴马在采访中说上周进行的,周六晚在该杂志的网站上发布。
共和党人试图将奥巴马描绘成反商业行为,企业抱怨称,奥巴马签名通过的医疗法案和多德-弗兰克(dodd - frank)金融改革提高了企业成本。
商业团体在游说反对他遏制电厂碳排放引起气候变化的的新计划。
“我将企业社区的投诉比作一粒盐,”奥巴马说,他认为政策有利于商业的发展。“他们总是抱怨监管。这是他们的工作。”（更多全球资讯请点击浏览）
奥巴马日益提升民粹主义经济措施，比如提高最低工资，这是激励民主党选民11月国会选举前的关键,期间他的民主党面临失去参议院的控制权的危险。
“通常情况下,你会听到一些对冲基金经理说,“哦,他只是想引起阶级不满”。不。随时保持你的房子在汉普顿和你的商务飞机,等等。我不关心你用什么样的方式生活,”奥巴马说。
“我关心的是确保我们有一个普通人只要努力工作,并负责任就可以获得成功的系统”他说。
奥巴马在他的第一个任期内与金融商业关系比较淡,他告诉采访者:“我没有竞选去帮助一群华尔街肥猫银行家。”
白宫方面言辞已经缓和了,奥巴马连任上台已联合美国公司支持推进实际行政措施，雇用长期失业者,在学校获得更好的技术和为年轻的非裔美国人提供更多的机会。
奥巴马抨击共和党人对他所谓的一系列“反全球化”停滞了重新授权进出口银行的资金,他说这会损害美国企业在海外贸易融资。但在采访中,奥巴马指责企业缺乏社会责任,理由是“普遍观点”,“唯一的责任,公司CEO是他的股东。” （更多全球资讯请点击浏览）
“CEO们所宣称的价值观和愿景和他们在华盛顿的说客们的行为存有巨大的差距,”他说。
”我一直的挑战是：你的说客是否在为保持你们已有的税收减免而努力?如果答案是否定的,那么你不并太多关心你说的事。”
(Lynne O ' donnell和EricWalsh编辑)
Obama says CEOs should quit complaining: Economist
By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said corporate America has done well under his economic policies, telling the Economist magazine that chief executive officers should stop complaining about regulations and show greater social responsibility.
"If you look at what's happened over the last four or five years, the folks who don't have a right to complain are the folks at the top," Obama said in an interview conducted last week and posted on the magazine's website late on Saturday.
Republicans have sought to portray Obama as anti-business, and businesses have complained that Obama's signature healthcare law and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms have raised costs.
Business groups are lobbying against his new plan to curb climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants.
"I would take the complaints of the corporate community with a grain of salt," Obama said, arguing that his policies have been friendly to business. "They always complain about regulation. That's their job." （更多全球资讯请点击浏览）
Obama has increasingly promoted populist economic measures such as raising the minimum wage to motivate Democratic voters ahead of critical November congressional elections, in which his Democrats face the prospect of losing control of the Senate.
"Oftentimes, you'll hear some hedge-fund manager say, 'Oh, he's just trying to stir class resentment'. No. Feel free to keep your house in the Hamptons and your corporate jet, etcetera. I'm not concerned about how you're living," Obama said.
"I am concerned about making sure that we have a system in which the ordinary person who is working hard and is being responsible can get ahead," he said. （for more global news please click here）
Obama had a frosty relationship with business in his first term, famously telling an interviewer: "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street."
The White House had toned down that rhetoric, and in Obama's second term has rallied corporate America for support to advance executive actions to hire the long-term unemployed, get better technology in schools and provide more opportunities for young African-American men.
Obama slammed Republicans for what he termed a thread of "anti-globalization" that has stalled reauthorization of funding for the Export-import Bank, which he said would hurt U.S. businesses trying to finance overseas trade. But in the interview, Obama chided business for a lack of social responsibility, citing a "general view" that "the only responsibility that a corporate CEO has is to his shareholders."
"There's a huge gap between the professed values and visions of corporate CEOs and how their lobbyists operate in Washington," he said.
"My challenge to them consistently is, 'Is your lobbyist working as hard on those issues as he or she is on preserving that tax break that you've got? ' And if the answer is no, then you don't care about it as much as you say." （for more global news please click here）
(Editing by Lynne O'Donnell and EricWalsh)
