Chamber of Commerce Lashes Out at Obama, Congress

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

On a day the White House is again touting the success of the stimulus program, the business community is lashing out saying the Administration has "neglected America's number one priority" - job creation.

In a scathing open letter to President Obama, Congress and the American People, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that once the economy was stabilized, the White House and Congress took their "eyes off the ball."

"Instead of continuing their partnership with the business community and embracing proven ideas for job creation, they vilified industries while embarking on an ill-advised source of government expansion, major tax increases, massive deficits, and job-destroying regulations," the letter says.

The letter goes onto say that the uncertainty created by large deficits, possible tax increases and increased regulation, has hurt job creation nationwide. The Chamber proposes specific steps that can help turn the tide, specifically tax relief. "We therefore urge Congress and the administration to immediately support at least a temporary extension of all the tax relief passed in the prior decade. In one bold, swift move, this would substantially boost investor, business, and consumer confidence and would infuse our economy with fresh momentum."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010506-503544.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Ain't that a surprise?

[groovedaddy]

2. I wish I gave a shit about what the Chamber of Commerce thinks, but I don't.

I do think that small businesses need protection and help. But alot of their problems are the result of "big" business policies designed to choke off competition.

[SargeUNN]

3. wait a minute, why is CoC bashing Corportist Obama?

err maybe because he isn't as much a Corportist as some would try to make one believe.

[SkyDaddy7]

5. Careful! Pointing out FACTS like that could...

Land you in front of the DU Inquisition! That is borderline heresy!

...But I like it!

[HomerRamone]

10. or maybe he should be LESS corporatist

since nothing will satisfy these sociopaths...

[Iowa]

12. Not quite...

It's because Obama's brand of corporatism isn't as corporate-friendly as the Republican version of corporatism. That's certainly a plus in the Obama column, but it in no way excuses or exonerates DLC-style corporatism. Corporatism, in whatever form, should be opposed by progressives. You haven't uncovered something that is even remotely profound, nor have you "caught" your fellow DUers in an inconsistency, as you clearly seem to believe.

[LanternWaste]

13. "Corporatism" seems to have little more than a subjective and revolving definition

"Corporatism" seems to have little more than a subjective and revolving definition depending on who is speaking it at the time and who they believe their own, personal opposition to be. I guess it's a like like the term "nanny-state" in the regard in that it means whatever diaphanous, ever-changing concept the speaker wants it to mean.

[Winterblues]

15. Uhhh because he is a BLACK Democrat...

Everything they said was an out and out LIE so their only other motivation could be ?????????

[Hydra]

17. Because they would prefer the old system

Where someone like Bush would give them everything they asked for and offer a cherry on top.

As we mentioned when this snowball started, Rahm was a fool to think the CoC or other major power blocks would prefer their brand of republicanism to the real thing.

[Blue_Tires]

4. tax relief -- that's their goddamned answer to everything

i knew what their suggestion would be before i clicked the link....

[Amonester]

6. And not a peep about the Department of Offense's blatant looting of...

future taxpayers' (if any) empty pockets...

Now, who will be 'listened to' again, I am afraid to think?


On edit: I just saw a tiny fleeting glimpse of... hope... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x373064

I am afraid this will be... blocked... by the cRazies... again.

[nykym]

7. Oh yes tax relief

that worked out real well for the rich! I just hate organizations like the CoC who offer the same ill fated solutions to problems. What have they done or championed to create jobs?

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Great heavens! That man is having a heart attack

Call an ambulance!

Chamber of Commerce: "Certainly not, give that man a tax cut, and let him call his own ambulance with the windfall."

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Who is sending jobs overseas? Big business.

[livetohike]

11. "proven ideas for job creation" - like when Dubya was in

office? All those millions of jobs his policies created :sarcasm:. It doesn't work and their rhetoric is just the same old b.s.

[formercia]

14. President Obama must be doing something right

to make the Chamber of Commerce squeal like a stuck Pig.

[Emeritus]

16. The Powerful's natural ally=the Republican Party

It's the way it has been, the way it is, and the way it always be. The Chamber wants business de-regulated to the max. Screw them.

[Hydra]

18. *lmao*

Translation: "We want more handouts!!! And don't you DARE put us on a leash!!!"