Posted on 05/30/2014 3:30:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Across Lafayette Park, facing the White House, sits an imposing stone structure, framed by ornate Corinthian columns and comprising a significant chunk of a full city block. It is home to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, the historic bastion of American business and industry.
Since its founding slightly more than a century ago, the chamber has engaged in countless issues from keeping unions in check to job training and tax reform.
But increasingly, the chamber is straying from its original principles, and there is no greater example than its supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The national chamber is one of the nation's loudest advocates for amnesty for people who broke the law entering the U.S.
Chamber President Tom Donohue even went so far as to warn the Republican Party on May 12 not to bother running a candidate for president in 2016 absent support from the congressional GOP for immigration "reform," a term that has become synonymous with amnesty in recent months.
Why the chamber and other business interests support amnesty so vociferously is quizzical. The conventional wisdom is that business wants cheap labor. It's a cynical argument but one that contains a grain of logic, and cheap labor would certainly be one of the byproducts of amnesty.
But the future economic and political fallout of amnesty is anathema to business and industry. Bigger government, unsustainable federal spending, a growing welfare state and an electorate to perpetuate it hold the potential to doom the free-market system that the chamber has historically encouraged.
Amnesty would be a disaster for the federal budget. The taxpayer cost of amnesty for the estimated 11.5 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. is a staggering $6.3 trillion, according to a 2013 Heritage Foundation study.
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Cheap labor subsidized by the feds
US Chamber of Commerce and the SEIU: an unholy union.
Follow the Money!!!!
The simple answer is that the US Chamber of Commerce is not controlled by American businesses, but by multinational corporations.
These corporation owe no loyalty to the US, and have no problem in actively working against the interests of the US as long as they can make money on the deal.
This means that their number one concern is free trade agreements, because this offers them the cheapest labor, the most profitable markets, and the ability to evade paying taxes to anyone.
However, the traditional overseas markets for cheap labor are drying up, so they want to move production back to the US, but while continuing to pay sweatshop wages.
So, while they want amnesty for cheap labor, they definitely want a huge influx of illegal alien labor, since they can get it for sub-minimum wages.
The people who support the C of C may bee too uninformed to know what is happening, or they may agree with the C. of C.
Cheap labor - pure and simple - conservative farmer friend of mine also likes all the illegals running around the country - gets his crops picked for next to nothing - and they don’t ask questions....
“The national chamber is one of the nation’s loudest advocates for amnesty for people who broke the law entering the U.S”
Duh! They represent business. No shock there.
I guess they support the commerce of slavery... the consensual type. They are liberal and they think themselves smart to be flattered into being corrupt idiots.
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