Thursday, May 27, 2010

Chamber of Horrors

A membership in the Springdale Chamber of Commerce automatically gives you membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - whether you want it or not.
Editorials and columns noting that the US Chamber is damaging its reputation and credibility include BusinessWeek, PRWeek, Fortune Magazine's Marc Gunther, Newsweek , LA Times, and the Washington Post.

While many large companies and local chambers are distancing themselves - as far away as possible from the US Chamber and their lobbying antics, Springdale is still endorsing them and sending them your money.

The US Chamber is fast becoming known as the current political mafia with their biggest area of influence being state and federal elections. They vastly outspent every other lobbying group in 2009 with a budget surpassing the spending of BOTH the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee.

How long will it take for Springdale businesses and the local chamber to catch on that the US Chamber is driving down the wages of the customers that patronize the businesses of their members?

2 comments:

  1. What is this? a commie rant. Low wages mean one thing: HIGHER PROFITS and that's what the CoC is all about. MoMoney.

    We can ship every decent job that remains, except assistant mgr at Burgers, Inc,
    to China, India and Singapore and the Chamber won't mind a bit. In fact the Chamber will help lower import fees on goods once produced on this shore.
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  2. And another thing.

    When we can't ship jobs and industries to 3rd World nations the CoC has a solution for that too. Just bring the 3rd World to us, or to them.

    Funny, you don't see any T'baggers protesting the
    CoC who loves them some cheap immigrant workers.

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