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Chamber of Commerce gives ultimatum to GOP (immigration)
politico.com ^ | 5/12/14 | Kevin Robillard

Posted on 05/12/2014 11:52:42 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: Noamie

(I meant to say, I believe, 2011.)


61 posted on 05/12/2014 2:10:08 PM PDT by Noamie
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Why can’t we convince the dumbocraps that each mexican who moves to america quadruples of quintuples his carbon footprint? I thought they wanted to do absolutely anything to stop global warming


62 posted on 05/12/2014 2:16:20 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: cotton1706

Conservatives must VOTE WITH THEIR WALLET.Stage a one day boycott of all purchases from any and all businesses each Sunday or Monday no one buys anything until they reverse their Amnesty stand.
LET OUR DOLLARS do the TALKING. Each time weremove thirty million and their buying power from the market place we reremove billions of dollars from the Chamber of Commerce.


63 posted on 05/12/2014 2:39:37 PM PDT by WilliamRobert (Obama so loves the poor he created millions more.)
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To: cotton1706

Conservatives must VOTE WITH THEIR WALLET.Stage a one day boycott of all purchases from any and all businesses each Sunday or Monday no one buys anything until they reverse their Amnesty stand.
LET OUR DOLLARS do the TALKING. Each time weremove thirty million and their buying power from the market place we reremove billions of dollars from the Chamber of Commerce.


64 posted on 05/12/2014 2:40:27 PM PDT by WilliamRobert (Obama so loves the poor he created millions more.)
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To: cotton1706
“This is a unified position of the business community,”
OH REALLY? The unified position of manufacturing business is having illegals? Companies that support illegals are already hiring illegals. They just want to get punished for it. I as a manufacturer am NOT in favor of continued illegal immigration or any sense of amnesty. My competitors certainly are. I am protected, for who knows how long, because I make aviation parts that are covered under ITAR rules.
65 posted on 05/12/2014 2:57:38 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: headstamp 2
Concurring bump. Lame-duck ha-ha session gives republic away, cements 'Rats in White House for next 200 years.

Death squads and concentration camps for Old Americans ("Oldthinkers", "Haters") to begin as soon as they can be organized.

66 posted on 05/12/2014 3:02:43 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: RIghtwardHo

The Koch s donate much to conservative causes, and perhaps they influence plicy to this degree, opening the borders, the subject at hand.

BUt if you are accusing them of doing so, evidence is necessary


67 posted on 05/12/2014 3:05:11 PM PDT by stanne
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To: kearnyirish2
They also want tens of millions of new consumers....

John Forbes and Lewis Tappan (yes, those families) were big Abolitionists back in the 1850's. They seriously advocated emancipating and sending all the black slaves "home" to West Africa, and replacing them one-for-one with millions of Chinese coolies.

Can you imagine what our politics would look like now, if they'd been taken seriously?

68 posted on 05/12/2014 3:13:36 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: cotton1706

shove it donohue.


69 posted on 05/12/2014 3:15:16 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: kcvl

I wonder who the top 5 are?


70 posted on 05/12/2014 3:36:33 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Moonman62
I think the goal is to have amnesty act as an attractant for more illegal aliens, who they can pay under the table and treat as de facto slaves. That’s the way the 1986 amnesty worked.

I have to come believe that this is exactly what is happening. And it's why regardless of any "immigration reform" the enforcement part will somehow never get implemented.

71 posted on 05/12/2014 3:44:11 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: cotton1706
Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said the GOP shouldn’t even field a presidential candidate in 2016 unless Congress passes immigration reform this year.

Tom Donohue: Useful White Guy.

72 posted on 05/12/2014 4:03:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: headstamp 2
“National Association of Manufacturers President Jay Timmons said he also thought immigration reform could pass this year, perhaps in a lame-duck session.”

Obviously not rooting for Americans.

73 posted on 05/12/2014 4:04:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: cotton1706
"“This is a unified position of the Give-Americans-The-Business community,” Timmons said. "
74 posted on 05/12/2014 4:05:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: cotton1706

Nothing has changed in decades, at least in Californicator land.

About twenty years ago, I took early retirement, and my CPA advised me not to work the first year due to part of my retirement being basically a year’s salary, plus getting a pension, paid for vacation time earned and not taken.

So besides my wife’s never ending Honey Do List, volunteer work and fishing, I actually tried shopping a few times during Monday through Friday, when the rest of America was working.

The lack of crowds was nice, but in a day or so, I realized that in many stores, I was the only English speaking guy. The clerks were Hispanic and a lot of the customers were Hispanic women. That was basically the same pattern in the 4 counties I shopped at.

So I asked a few of my neighbors what was happening. Two owned businesses and one was an exec with the CC.

I was informed that was the new reality and that was keeping the independent businesses alive in my town and other near by cities. The Hispanics were customers and clerks at the stores. One neighbor, who owned a luxury car dealership, told me that a large # of the car dealers in the area would go broke as if there weren’t illegals here to buy used cars and to do cheap labor at the dealers.

This wasn’t the big corporations, doing this. It was the so called backbone of America, the mom and pop independent business owners.

The CC is pro Amnesty for customers, cheap labor to wait on the new Hispanic customers, and for the cheap labor to clean up their homes, businesses and other personal property.

This pattern is probably the same across America, and it is why the CC is pro wide open borders and Amnesty on their terms.

This is one of the main reasons that I shop and buy so much on line. My computer speaks English, and I owe nothing to so many of the local CC’s business owners.


75 posted on 05/12/2014 4:48:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obama cannot divert resources from his war on Americans!)
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To: cotton1706

The Chamber of Crony capitalism is a supporter of big business, not supporters of small business. I say to the C of CC FU, you aren’t for America.


76 posted on 05/12/2014 6:01:56 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“They seriously advocated emancipating and sending all the black slaves “home” to West Africa, and replacing them one-for-one with millions of Chinese coolies. Can you imagine what our politics would look like now, if they’d been taken seriously?”

Probably very much the same as it is now; while we’re only seeing the millions of Asians arrive now (between India & Red China, to replace Anglo white-collar workers), the powers that be instead simply sequestered the blacks on welfare reservations 50 years ago and replaced them with Hispanics.


77 posted on 05/13/2014 4:01:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Noamie

It may be that corn and soybeans do not require much manual labor.

Thank you for the article.


78 posted on 05/13/2014 6:38:22 PM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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