The Un-American Agenda of the US Chamber of Commerce

[There Is No Spoon]

June 27, 2011
By Rmuse

America has faced countless enemies in its brief history, and has prevailed over some of the most treacherous opponents the world has ever known. The country is embroiled in two protracted wars that President Obama is trying to wind down, and with technically advanced electronic surveillance capabilities, Americans can rest easy that our military is monitoring our known enemies’ activities and whereabouts and can strike at them in a matter of minutes. There are however, enemies who are covertly assailing America from within and it is not Islamic fundamentalists, but a trusted friend that incorporates part of our country’s name in their moniker. The group is more dangerous than Al Qaeda because their goal is to take over the government and kill the population by starvation and slow poisoning instead of a spectacular 9/11-type attack or military assault.

If it is not already common knowledge, the fact that the United States Chamber of Commerce shills for corporations seeking to change the business climate in America to one closer to China should be evident to anyone following the corporatization of America. The Chamber promotes outsourcing Americans’ jobs as great for business in spite of the fact that the unemployment rate is still too high for real economic recovery to progress substantially. Regulations are one of the Chamber’s primary targets and they are unapologetic in their drive to deregulate everything from the financial industry to worker protections that keep the dwindling workforce safe. The Chamber and their GOP puppets hate regulations that protect Americans from corporations that disregard Americans’ well-being to make more profits. The most recent campaign against regulations has been joined by former Senator from Indiana, Evan Bayh, who has begun shilling for the Chamber’s current anti-regulation drive that seeks to undo the financial and healthcare regulations by labeling them “job killers.”

In an opinion piece on Sunday with former Bush White House chief-of-staff, Andrew Card, Bayh extolled the virtues of deregulation as a means of job creation, and criticized President Obama for burdening the economy with healthcare and financial regulations as well as Environmental Protection Agency rules. According to Bayh and Card, Obama’s executive order requiring a review of existing regulations is insufficient; it is not enough that the order only dealt with regulations that are “out of date, unnecessary, excessively burdensome, or in conflict with other rules,” and apparently it is not enough that they have encouraged some regulatory agencies to recommend changes that will save businesses time, money, headaches and resources. The Chamber of Commerce, speaking through Bayh and Card is not satisfied and says that “more needs to be done.”

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Although the Chamber carefully crafted the opinion piece, their opposition to healthcare reforms entails killing the Affordable Health Act. The health law’s rules that the Chamber opposes are: insurance companies cannot refuse coverage for a pre-existing condition, cannot impose lifetime limits on coverage, or cannot kick children off of their parents’ policy past the age of 18, and any other pro-consumer protection. The Chamber opposes financial reform because it protects consumers and holds banks and financial organizations accountable for their malfeasance. The Chamber also opposes reforms that prohibit speculation on derivatives and sub-prime mortgages, restricts exorbitant credit card fees, and prohibits banks from increasing interest rates for no reason. It is obvious that there is no demarcation between the Republican Party, Koch Industries, and the Chamber of Commerce, or that the triad of evil is assailing the American people with claims of “job killing regulations.”

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The Chamber sponsored an event in NH recently. The only reason I could think of why I'd want to go to the event was to spit on the sponsors faces. There are few organizations more evil than the Chamber. In concert with the Kock brothers and the evil ass-clown Republicans who are attempting to burn our country to the ground, we who care about what makes this country great need to be gearing up for an ongoing battle against these groups that are determined to destroy what makes America a country worth living in.

[NJMaverick]

I'd like to know when they morphed from protecting commerce to becoming the right wing money machine.