Beware Big Business and the Chamber of Commerce

Canada Free Press ^ | 10/09/15 | Arthur Christopher Schaper

[Sean_Anthony]

Hard lessons about Big Business, the Chamber of Commerce, their undue influence in the Republican Party have been a hard one for me to accept, and yet too many people are content to shout ''Establishment" without really identifying the core problems

This has been the hardest lesson for me to learn.

I never thought that being pro-business could compromise one’s fight for liberty and limited government. Yet I have learned to accept what Scott Rasmussen argued after the disappointing 2012 President Elections: too many people still see the Republicans Party as pro Big Business.

There is much truth to this assertion. More conservatives must confront this fact, and the forces behind it, then overcome Big Business elements to make sure that their party grows stronger, and enhances the preeminence of the individual, our local governments, and state sovereignty against the federal government.

I sensed this tension between conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce elements within the Republican Party during the Bush II years, especially in 2005 and 2006, when Republican leaders tried to pass some sort of immigration reform/amnesty legislation.

[skeeter]

I agree entirely with this writer.

Middle class conservatives need to stop going to ideological bat for big business. Not only do they care nothing for us, they are working against our interests and like unions have no problem supporting big oppressive government if it serves their financial interests.

[central_va]

Protectionism, tariffs, duties, import quotas. These are all words that were used frequently by the founding fathers of this country. They new what was up, and how to combat it.

[indthkr]

Corporate Socialism bump for later....

[jobim]

When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies.
Don't you want somebody to love?

From that great anthem by Jefferson Airplane, perhaps a tad dramatic for my purposes
here, but I do feel hoodwinked by the GOPEstablishment. What was a confluence of
Conservative forces under Reagan has become simply a tool of BigCorporatism
(ie Carlysle Group etal). The Chamber of Commerce through Citizens United SuperPacs
fund candidates without heed or need for we Vulgarians-of-the-Flyover. The middle and
lower-middle class jobs that were the foundation of our country's virtue and vigor, as in
the hustle and bustle of Chicago of my youth in the 50s & 60s, have been exported.
We are left with massive EBT breadlines.

[cradle of freedom]

Back in the fifties and sixties, US corporations would make products in the United States and sell their products within the United States and throughout the world. Today, US corporations are headquartered here but their products are made overseas, then they are shipped back here and sold to American consumers. We are good enough to buy their products but not good enough to make their products.

Today modern technology allow companies to be headquartered in the United States and still keep in touch with their factories in China or other foreign countries. Then the goods are brought to American ports on huge cargo ships and sold in American stores to Americans shoppers. Now airplanes can bring H1B workers from all over the world to take jobs away from Americans. Our technological advances such as the computer, airplanes, cargo ships etc. have been used against us but they still want our money at the American shopping malls. What are they going to do when the balance drops to the point where there are not enough American’s working to buy their foreign made products at the local shopping malls?