* Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists.
* American Iron and Steel Institute
* America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
* Apple Inc.
* AT&T
* Bank of America
* Blackstone, one of the largest multinational private equity firms
* Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
* Citigroup
* The Coca-Cola Company
* Comcast NBCUniversal
* CVS Caremark Inc.
* Eli Lilly and Company
* Facebook
* GE
* Goldman Sachs
* Google
* Japan Bank for International Cooperation
* Microsoft Corporation
* Northrop Grumman, defense contractor
* PepsiCo
* Samsung
* Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States
* Time Warner Inc.
* Walmart
* Wells Fargo
This doesn’t surprise me. I once read where Big Oil fund extreme environmental groups. The idea is that if they get stiff regulations past against them, this in turns drives up prices and profits. If they were to really compete for oil and natural gas, this would lower their profits.
The middle class is stuck holding the bag.
* Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists.
* American Iron and Steel Institute
* America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
* Apple Inc.
* AT&T
* Bank of America
* Blackstone, one of the largest multinational private equity firms
* Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
* Citigroup
* The Coca-Cola Company
* Comcast NBCUniversal
* CVS Caremark Inc.
* Eli Lilly and Company
* Facebook
* GE
* Goldman Sachs
* Google
* Japan Bank for International Cooperation
* Microsoft Corporation
* Northrop Grumman, defense contractor
* PepsiCo
* Samsung
* Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States
* Time Warner Inc.
* Walmart
* Wells Fargo
I doubt that there is any conservative organization that can boast a remotely comparable list of corporate supporters. CAP’s disclosure is a timely reminder that large corporations are not, in general, supporters of free enterprise. Many of them love to partner with government to suppress innovation and competition. Excellent point!
“...bitterly hostile to free enterprise...”
And yet it was free enterprise that has led to many inventions that have made our lives so productive and safe...if we all stuck to socialism - we all would be living on govt farms eating mud!
Liberals have no sense - but yet we still have them everywhere...time to clean house and ship them somewhere else and see the infighting for control - because that’s the only thing that would get done!
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It no longer surprises me. They days when companies actively nurtured a healthy working and middle class are long gone. As corporate America has outsourced jobs, they have increasingly relied on Government to pick up the slack. As a result, entitlements are critical to enable Americans to buy their stuff. This is what Nancy Pelosi and the Dems really mean when they talk about unemployment stimulating the Economy. Without transfer payments, welfare & stimulus in all its stripes, the majority of Americans would be dirt poor. That is the truth and all these corporations know it.
I’m sure they also know that we are slowly drifting toward a one party state where a decreasing productive class works increasingly harder to support a growing Free Stuff Army (FSA). The FSA is now in the majority—we are past the tipping point.
Judging by the events of the last week, it looks like John Boehner and Paul Ryan.