Posted on 05/04/2019 7:36:21 AM PDT by cotton1706
A month before his inauguration, and shortly after he had finished a round of golf with Tiger Woods, Donald Trump was introduced to an adviser of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chief advocacy group for American corporations. Stanton Anderson stood in the clubhouse of Mr. Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., and extended his hand to the president-elect. Mr. Trump refused it.
“You guys did everything to stop me,” Mr. Trump said, his face reddening, according to two people who were there. “I haven’t forgotten.”
In the two years since, relations between Mr. Trump and Washington’s biggest lobbying organization haven’t much improved.
The chill has hurt the U.S. Chamber, which for decades was the unmatched voice of industry. Its revenue has dipped, spending on lobbying and elections has fallen, and its large-donor pool has shrunk.
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“..strip mining accumulated capital and auctioning off America.”
Bingo! H.L. Mencken said that “Elections are a kind of advance auctions of stolen goods.”
“Infiltrate an organization, kill it, gut it, wear its skin as a suit and demand respect.” A. Breitbart.
Who convinced American men and women that they don’t want or need
children?
Seven men in black robes “legalized” killing our own posterity.
And now we are told we need immigrants to take their place.
God have mercy on our selfishness.
Combined overhead and G&A is greater than 50% of revenue?
The Chamber of Commerce is too stupid, arrogant, and inefficient to survive.
It is long past time for them to join the other dinosaurs in the La Brea tar pits.
YMMV, but in general whenever I have done business with a company that was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, invariably they were incompetent, corrupt, and possessed a sense of entitlement exceeded solely by their oversized egos.
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