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To: Bratch

When did the Chamber of Commerce go from being an advocate for small local businesses to being shills for crony capitalist global corporations?


4 posted on 02/09/2016 8:53:32 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
When did the Chamber of Commerce go from being an advocate for small local businesses to being shills for crony capitalist global corporations?

There are other groups. There is the NFIB.

7 posted on 02/09/2016 8:55:51 PM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 15 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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Assuming you weren’t being rhetorical: The answer is MONEY.


26 posted on 02/09/2016 9:41:06 PM PST by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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As a professional historian, if I was younger and wanted a good research project, that would be a great research topic. I suspect it was either in the 80s or 90s as American heavy industry got hollowed out and in cost-cutting measures business had to engage illegals, especially Simpson Mazzoli


41 posted on 02/10/2016 3:27:56 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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