U.S. Chamber of Commerce hates American populism

This is very scary.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chamber8jan08,1,5346679.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

Business v. the American people. Isn't that what John Edwards (and Dennis Kucinich) are talking about???


Edwards et al. are not against BUSINESS, they are against American corporate rampant greed!!! As every citizen of this country should be.



edit link

will look for it, but its here.

Edited to include link to thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3990334

“Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said his organization “would spend in excess of the approximately $60 million it spent in the last presidential cycle” to defeat “anti-business” candidates. The organization will be “so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed,” said Donohue. (LA Times 1/8/08)

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The warning from the nation's largest trade association came against a background of mounting popular concern over the condition of the economy. A weak record of job creation, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, declining home values and other problems have all helped make the economy a major campaign issue.

Presidential candidates in particular have responded to the public concern. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina has been the bluntest populist voice, but other front-running Democrats, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, have also called for change on behalf of middle-class voters.

This quote makes it clear that they want Americans to know who's in charge:

""I'm concerned about anti-corporate and populist rhetoric from candidates for the presidency, members of Congress and the media," he said. "It suggests to us that we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them.""

Because of globalization, corporations no longer have to worry about Americans buying their products because they have other markets.

I know he's for them, but amping up the message would keep him from being painted this way.

anti-corporate greed.

our jobs offhshore without us bitching about it. Pretty soon it will cost them or they can move where they sent our jobs. I want to see some of these ass wipe CEOs in India without toilet paper.