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September 29, 2006

View From Lodi, CA: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Traitors!
By Joe Guzzardi

The Lodi Chamber of Commerce�s September monthly newsletter written by CEO Pat Patrick with its thinly veiled attack on Lodi Mayor Susan Hitchcock should awaken citizens to the fact that the Chamber does not---its insistence to the contrary�necessarily represent what is best for Lodi.

The Chamber is a special interest group whose main thrust is growth and business development.

But Lodi is made up of more than just business owners and developers. I never have to travel far before a concerned citizen stops me to say how he worried is about sprawl and urban over-development.

Many of my colleagues at the Lodi Unified School District and friends in the dog park, where passions about Lodi�s direction run high, fret about our future.

The anti-Hitchcock stance taken by Patrick�s newsletter is an alarming diatribe that focuses exclusively on why the sitting mayor is, in his opinion, anti-growth and bad for business. The Chamber�s endorsement of three other City Council candidates came conveniently after it had raked Hitchcock over the coals

A close look at the Chamber of Commerce�s national headquarters� agenda shows that while it purports that more development leads to new jobs and better opportunity for locals, in reality the Chamber is anti-American worker

According to the Chamber�s website, it endorses amnesty for illegal aliens as well as guest worker programs that create an endless flow of cheap labor into the U.S. thereby undercutting the American worker�s wage structure.

Guest workers who work on the cheap are �good� for the businesses that hire them but �bad� for U.S. workers trying to find a decent job.

Here, taken from its website, is the Chamber�s 2006 political agenda.

The Chamber promises to work to:

Provide an earned pathway to legalization for undocumented workers already contributing to our economy, with the condition that they are law-abiding and prepared to embrace the obligations and values of our society.

Create a carefully monitored guest worker program to fill the growing gaps in America's workforce recognizing that, in some cases, permanent immigrants will be needed to fill these gaps.

Refrain from unduly burdening employers with worker verification systems that are under-funded or unworkable.

Ensure the continuity and expansion of H-1B and L-1 visas for professionals and highly valued workers.

The Chamber also makes a passing, and in my opinion insincere, reference to enhancing border security.

Note that the Chamber ignores the social consequences of millions of illegal workers already in the U.S., promotes rewarding them with amnesty, and favors the issuance of millions of more so-called temporary visas like the H-1B and SKIL visas that will add to the rolls of 10 million unemployed Americans.

The Chamber suggests, incorrectly, that workplace enforcement of immigration laws would represent a hardship for employers.

Through its alliance with the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, the Chamber lobbies hard for its anti-American worker programs.

The EWIC membership includes corporations like Tyson Foods that blatantly violate immigration law and organizations that profit from a large presence of illegal aliens such as the First Data Corporation.

In another move certain to further undermine the already weak job market for younger workers, the Chamber promises to lobby for an extension of the foreign temporary worker visa, the H-2B, through 2008.

The H-2B visa is a great thing if you want to hire foreign workers on the cheap. But if you are a kid hoping to land a summer job to save for your college tuition, the H-2B visa makes your odds for employment long.

Finally, the Chamber actively promotes trade talks that it hopes will result in what it calls the free movement of people across borders. Such �movement� translates into a low cost work force for employers but fewer decent jobs for Americans.

Look closely at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and you�ll see that it isn�t a benign organization. The Chamber may be committed to advancing business causes. But those advancements come at the American worker�s expense.

Joe Guzzardi [email him], an instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.

[quote]Here, taken from its website, is the Chamber’s 2006 political agenda.

The Chamber promises to work to:

Provide an earned pathway to legalization for undocumented workers already contributing to our economy, with the condition that they are law-abiding and prepared to embrace the obligations and values of our society.

Create a carefully monitored guest worker program to fill the growing gaps in America's workforce recognizing that, in some cases, permanent immigrants will be needed to fill these gaps.

Refrain from unduly burdening employers with worker verification systems that are under-funded or unworkable.

Ensure the continuity and expansion of H-1B and L-1 visas for professionals and highly valued workers.

The Chamber also makes a passing, and in my opinion insincere, reference to enhancing border security.

Note that the Chamber ignores the social consequences of millions of illegal workers already in the U.S., promotes rewarding them with amnesty, and favors the issuance of millions of more so-called temporary visas like the H-1B and SKIL visas that will add to the rolls of 10 million unemployed Americans.[quote]




YEAH, THIS SURE DOES SOUND TRAITORIST TO ME. ANYBODY ELSE?!

The CHAMBER is a communist/socialist organization which is why we've never joined. It's a dangerous entity working to eliminate world borders and consolidating power.

The US Chamber is a Globalist UNAmerican organization taking advantage of its smaller members to collect dues to promote an agenda that will most certainly end the United States of America.

It is a Traitor organization and most of their members do not realize who and what they really are representing or what its agenda is designed to accomplish.

Every AMERICAN business should immediately terminate membership in the US Chamber of Commerce.

Break their Bank. Pull the Plug on their money and send their "staff" in DC straight to the unemployment line.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

Here, taken from its website, is the Chamber’s 2006 political agenda.

The Chamber promises to work to:

Provide an earned pathway to legalization for undocumented workers already contributing to our economy,...

YEAH, THIS SURE DOES SOUND TRAITORIST TO ME. ANYBODY ELSE?!

Several years ago I discovered that the Detroit area chamber of commerce has come under alot of pressure from India based companies to fire Americans and send their jobs to India!

http://www.oocenter.com/blog/archives/2 ... facturing/

"Offshoring Study Says Looming Workforce Shortage is Greatest Threat to Manufacturing
June 5th, 2004, Permalink


MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., June 4 /PRNewswire/ — The Detroit Regional
Chamber, along with its partners the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Accelerator Group, today released a study assessing the effects on Michigan manufacturing of offshore outsourcing.

“According to the study, the attention on offshoring instead of workforce
has been misplaced,” noted Chamber president and CEO, Richard E. Blouse, CCE.

“The anticipated worker shortage is striking.”

There is no 'worker shortage'. There are millions of laid off American workers who are experienced and educated and can go back to work right-away, but India does not want you to hire American citizens!

And who is the "Accelerator Group"? An Indian Company which pressures American Chamber of Commerce members into firing American workers with the use of propaganda and myths concerning the "benefits" of outsourcing! Just think: illegal immigrants come to the US looking for work that they can take from Americans (and many illegal immigrants are Indian...) while Indian companies come here by invitation of our government looking for ways to accelerate the firing of Americans so that Indians working in India can get their jobs as well!

http://www.starlightcapital.com/blog/AcceleratorGroup

This is an incredible staff-leveraging service for investment banks seeking professional, outsourced research capabilities. Seema Chaturvedi, Founder and Managing Director of the Accelerator Group, provides a specialized business services outsourcing firm focused on providing high quality, value added services to its clients. These services include customized Knowledge Services and related advisory services, including, in our case, research for investment bankers from the company's staff of professionals in India. the Knowledge Services Group offers services in the areas of business intelligence, market research, analytics and data management private labeled to the client’s requirements.

Typical clients include investment banking firms, global consulting firms, strategy planning and business development departments of Fortune 500 companies, market research companies, venture capital firms and small and mediums enterprises. Industries served include Automotive, Chemicals, Financial services, Governments – Federal & State, Healthcare, High Technology, Oil and Petroleum, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Retail and Telecommunications.

Among her many activities, Seema is involved in The Indus Entrepreneurs organization and the Detroit Regional Chamber.

It is big business and groups like the Chamber (of horrers) that are running this country!

PAT BUCHANON HAS SOME NEW IDEAS TO THINK ABOUT:




, 2006

New Deal For U.S. Manufacturers
By Patrick J. Buchanan

In July, our trade deficit hit yet another all-time record, $68 billion, an annual rate of $816 billion. Imports surged to $188 billion for the month, as our dependency on foreigners for the vital necessities of our national life ever deepens.

China's trade surplus with us was $19.6 billion for July alone, moving toward an all-time record of $235 billion for 2006—the largest trade deficit one country has ever run with another. Our deficit with Mexico is running at an annual rate of $60 billion. With Canada, it is $70 billion. So much for NAFTA. With the European Union, it is running at $160 billion.

America as the most self-sufficient republic in history is history. For decades, U.S. factories have been closing. Three million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since Bush arrived. Ford and GM are fighting for their lives.

Bushites boast of all the new jobs created, but Business Week tells the inconvenient truth: "Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been created in the health care sector. ... Meanwhile, the number of private sector jobs outside of health care is no higher than it was five years ago."

"Perhaps most surprising," writes BW, "information technology, the great electronic promise of the 1990s, has turned into one of the biggest job-growth disappointments of all time. ... (B)usinesses at the core of the information economy—software, semiconductors, telecom and the whole gamut of Web companies—have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years. Those businesses employ fewer Americans than they did in 1998, when the Internet economy kicked into high gear." [What's Really Propping Up The Economy, September 25, 2006]

Where did the high-tech go? China. Beijing's No. 1 export to the United States in 2005, $50 billion worth, was computers and electronics.

If Americans are the most efficient workers on earth and work longer hours than almost any other advanced nation, why are we getting our clocks cleaned? Answer: While American workers are world-class, our elites are mentally challenged. So rhapsodic are they about the Global Economy they have forgotten their own country. Europeans, Japanese, Canadians and Chinese sell us so much more than they buy from us, because they have rigged the rules of world trade.

While the United States has a corporate income tax, our trade rivals use a value-added tax. At each level of production, a tax is imposed on the value added to the product. Under the rules of global trade, nations may rebate VAT levies on exports, and impose the equivalent of a VAT on imports.

Assume a VAT that adds up to 15 percent of the cost of a new car in Japan. If Toyota ships 1 million cars to the United States valued at $20,000 each, $20 billion worth of Toyotas, they can claim a rebate of the VAT of $3,000 on each car, or $3 billion—a powerful incentive to export. But each U.S. car arriving at the Yokohama docks will have 15 percent added to its sticker price to make up for Japan's VAT.

This amounts to a foreign subsidy on exports to the United States and a foreign tax on imports from America. Uncle Sam gets hit coming and going. It is as though, after firing a round of 66 in the Masters, Tiger Woods has five strokes added to his score for a 71, and five strokes are subtracted from the scores of his rivals. Even Tiger would bring home few trophies with those kind of ground rules.

The total tax disadvantage to U.S. producers—of VAT rebates and VAT equivalents imposed on U.S. products—is estimated at $294 billion.

Exported U.S services face the same double whammy. A VAT equivalent is imposed on them, while the exported services of foreign providers get the VAT rebate. Disadvantage to U.S. services: $85 billion annually.

Why do our politicians not level the playing field for U.S. companies?

First, ignorance of how world trade works. Second, ideology. These robotic free-traders recoil from any suggestion that they aid U.S. producers against unfair foreign tactics as interfering with Adam Smith's "invisible hand," which they equate with the hand of the Almighty.

Third, they are hauling water for transnational companies that want to move production overseas and shed their U.S. workers.

How could we level the playing field? Simple. Impose an "equalizing fee" on imports equal to the rebates. Take the billions raised, and cut taxes on U.S. companies, especially in production. Create a level playing field for U.S. goods and services in foreign markets, and increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies in our own home market by reducing their tax load.

U.S. trade deficits would shrivel overnight. And jobs and factories lately sent abroad would start coming home.

Isn't it time we put America first—even ahead of China?
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com.

[quote]How could we level the playing field? Simple. Impose an "equalizing fee" on imports equal to the rebates. Take the billions raised, and cut taxes on U.S. companies, especially in production. Create a level playing field for U.S. goods and services in foreign markets, and increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies in our own home market by reducing their tax load.

U.S. trade deficits would shrivel overnight. And jobs and factories lately sent abroad would start coming home.[quote]

I LIKE HOW THIS GUY THINKS!

U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has made his desires well known. He is an extremely strong proponent for the legalization of the majority of the illegal immigrants currently working in the United States.

Mr. Gutierrez's biography:

"Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez) (born November 4, 1953) is the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company.

Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. Faced with the expropriation of their property, his family fled for the United States in 1960 when he was six years old. Like many other Cuban American refugees, they settled in Miami. Gutierrez learned his first words of English from the bellhop at the hotel where they initially stayed and, some years later, he and his family acquired United States citizenship.

The family moved once again – this time to Mexico, where Gutiérrez studied business administration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's campus in Santiago de Querétaro. He joined Kellogg's in 1975 as a sales representative and management trainee. One of his early assignments included driving a delivery-truck route around local stores.

He rose through the management ranks, and in January 1990, he was promoted to corporate vice president of product development at the company's headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, and in July of the same year, he became executive vice president of Kellogg USA. In January 1999, he was elected to the company's Board of Directors and by April, he was appointed president and CEO.

On November 29, 2004, he was chosen by President George W. Bush to be his next term's Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. On the same day, Kellogg's Board of Directors accepted Gutierrez's resignation as Chairman of the Board and CEO, to be effective upon his confirmation by the Senate and swearing in. The board selected James M. Jenness to succeed Gutierrez as Chairman and CEO. It also elected Kellogg President and Chief Operating Officer A.D. David Mackay to the board. Gutierrez was confirmed on January 24, 2005 and sworn in on February 7, 2005. He has a wife, Edilia, a son, Carlos Jr., and two daughters, Erika and Karina."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gutierrez

I'm convinced Secretary Gutierrez has his own agenda and that agenda involves doing what is best for corporate America, not American citizens.

That's why he's the COMMERCE SEC, MW