White House, Big Business, Continue War of Words

Let’s make something VERY clear, Tom Donohue is not actually talking and defending small businesses. Predominantly his members are all big corporations that are paying large amounts to the Chamber of Commerce to do their dirty work. Tom has said it himself that, that’s job is to do the dirty work of corporations.
He could care less about what happens to small businesses, Tom Donohue(and chamber of commerce) as well as everything other corporation is trying to threaten the government with a smile on their face with more tax cuts, less regulation and more trade or else they will make sure more Americans lose their jobs and/or stay unemployed. As the article noted how corporations have increased in profits by 65%. And as always the U.S. government will do anything and everything for these companies because they feel their at the mercy of them to create job growth in America. Its a political and corporate game.

The Chamber is an ultra-conservative organization primarily funded by a handful of giant corporations, though it does have other members.
The Chamber proposes deregulation of business, tax cuts for the wealthy, free trade agreements, a reduced corporate income tax, expanded offshore drilling and logging in national forests and the privatization of waterways and roads.
In other words, they want to reinstitute and expand the policies that got us into the mess we are currently trying to recover from.

“Let’s make something VERY clear, Tom Donohue is not actually talking and defending small businesses.”
When you don’t have the facts I guess making something up is the easiest argument. Small business is the largest employer in this country and that is the majority of members that the Chamber represents. This administration is trying to bury every business with so many regulations and mandates that it is becoming impossible to grow or even stay in business.

This is simple and straightforward…..the Chamber is right. The Obama admin is not doing much, to foster business, or job creation, in general.
The rhetoric aside, the facts are the facts.

Posted by: Charlie | Jul 14, 2010 4:44:10 PM
I can’t argue with that – the 4% to 5% unemployment during the “neo-con” years proves the your implied improvement to 10% unemployment is because of the confidence business has in this administration and congress.
The Dems have been in charge since 2006 except for the White House in 2006 to 2008. Look at what has happened since they gained control.
Since you must be a Clinton fan also, can you explain why there was growth when he was in office when the Reps had control of both Houses from 1995 to 2005 except for the Senate in 2001? The quick answer was he worked with the Reps because he had to and knew he could only get passed what they would approve.
But then again when you have all of the power you blame the other party. When you have the White House and not the Houses you take credit for a robust economy. I really suggest you look at the last 10 years or so before making statements.

According to New York Times reporter David Brooks, “Only 6 percent of Americans believe the last stimulus created jobs, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey. ”
It is possible that the current stimulus has created 3 million temporary jobs of one month duration each. No more.

Posted by: david | Jul 14, 2010 5:27:30 PM
I need the name of your broker – my stocks are down about 15% within the time the Dems gained control. I guess when the market drops after 3 years of Dems controlling Congress it doesn’t count.
I say blame both parties and a public that could not stop laying out their credit cards and having McMansion dreams.
As far as people buying houses and all of the associated toys that they could not afford on credit I have absolutely no empathy. I was and always will be amazed at how crazy consumers were at buying $5k TV’s, $50k cars, boats, vacation homes, etc when they could barely make the payments.
I bought what I could afford and didn’t buy what I couldn’t afford. I could have purchased as much as I wanted with a credit score in the top 1% (maybe that is how I got it?) Guess what? $0 debt, two great homes and very little overhead and most all of the toys – but then again I was not then and am not not expecting someone to bail me out. I also work about 60 – 70 hours a week. And before you start – I grew up in the shadow of a refinery under the flight path of planes landing less than 2 miles away at a msjor airport, I have been on my own since I was 17, paid for my own college as I attended so I did not have debt when I graduated (didn’t qualify for any special programs) did not/will not inherit any money and have worked my butt off for what I have earned and just waited instead of paying huge interest payments.
I call it personal responsibility but maybe that is not PC anymore.

I stated since the Dems were in office as a sarcastic response to what I assumed was your sarcastic offer of since Obama became President the market has gone up. My point was neither party is doing anybody any favors and neither are those who thought buying everything in sight with no way to pay for it.

Skip,
My apologies, I had just finished reading another post and responded to you on that point that way, my mistake. (Still doesn’t mean I like your point however :)
To answer your question – both times and would I vote for him a third, no. Would I vote for Obama – no, he does not pick people to be around him that understand both sides of the issues. It is not to say they are not smart people just never lived outside government or academia and it shows. I am also not saying that he should have conservatives in his office, but he does need people who are not complete idealogs. He also needs to learn to speak in “we’s” because he is the head of a team (which includes all citizens)and can not and is not doing it on his own as any experienced CEO will tell you. Rhetoric and hope are nice but thay are not a strategy for success.
I really do not believe that there are many good candidates out there, too many are those who have been in office as a career. A career politician will get you nothing but politics and not solutions – and some times the best solution is to do nothing. I don’t know what you do for a living but running even a small business like I do and having to deal with all the regs and now new social programs being brought about gives one a much different prospective. While at one time there was confidence and you took a chance on a new employee, you do not do that any more. The costs are too high and the future is so questionable it is better for the company to do nothing, hire part time when needed or use contractors.
I have a black coffeee cup on my desk so every morning I am reminded that I must keep the company in the black to support those working with me. It is not something that I take lightly.
My choice now is do I continue and build the business and hire people, or do I cash in, spend time between the States and my place in Mexico and work on charity causes? I can do either, but not if I do not have confidence that small business will be left alone and allowed to grow and support families without the fed dictating every single thing I try and do.

I can’t believe Tom actually admits to doing the ‘Dirty work’ of big corporations!