“Its not even crony capitalism anymore. “
There is no such thing as “crony capitalism” because it is oxymoron.
That phrase is used by commies to belittle capitalism. Vast majority of businesses have no cronies — US CoC is looking for its own, just like any lobbying association would. Lobbying is constitutional RIGHT! If you can pay for your influence, why not use it in the free market? Corporations have as much freedom of speech as any diseased parasite mooching off of net tax payers.
Wow! Great idea for U.S.Chamber of Commerce....
...instead of it continuing its fine tradition of moving jobs to get the cheap labor of dirt poor 3rd World workers....
The Chamber(pot) wants to bring the dirt poor 3rd World workers to flood the USA so they can pay low wages without having to go overseas, Mexico, etc.
Nice timing too....at a time of extremely high US citizen unemployment....bring in tens of millions of aliens to kick even more US citizens out of a job...
If the U.S.Chamber of Commerce was a wh*re, it would be a $5 wh*ore.
And lobbying represents everything wrong with the current state of our republic. That much influence is not supposed to be tied to the federal government, which was intended to be weak and subservient to the states, no thanks to the 14th amendment.
Please don’t defend this lobbying garbage. It’s toxic to the republic.
It still makes them looters in the eyes of Ayn Rand. These business interests are betraying a greater moral purpose.