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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI used to be a hacker. It was a long time ago, decades before the future World Wide Web was available. I operated anonymously (except to my clients who paid me for what I discovered). I tracked down people whose cars, pledged as security on automobile loans, had been targeted for repossession. I performed my "hacking" duties over the phone using codes and pretexts. I infiltrated semi-secure bureaucratic systems (unemployment claim offices, utility company billing desks etc.) to precisely extract the whereabouts of drivers who had borrowed money to buy automobiles and then skipped town without ...
Obama to CEOs: Ask What You Can Do for America
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Echoing John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama prodded business leaders Monday to "ask yourselves what you can do for America," not just for company bottom lines, even as he sought to smooth his uneasy relations with the nation's corporate executives. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the president urged the business community to help accelerate the slow economic recovery by increasing hiring and unleashing some of the $2 trillion piling up on their balance sheets. "I want to encourage you to get in the game," Obama said. He enumerated new efforts by his ...
US Chamber of Commerce Bankrolls Campaign Ads Against Past Allies
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 4) - During the worst of the economic crisis, the nation's most powerful business lobby pleaded with Congress to prop up financial institutions and stimulate the economy with hundreds of billions of dollars in borrowed money. "Make no mistake: When the aftermath of congressional inaction becomes clear, Americans will not tolerate those who stood by and let the calamity happen," wrote Bruce Josten, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's vice president in September 2008, who at the time pressed lawmakers before their vote on a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street. A few months later, ...
At Jobs Summit, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Makes Its Case Against Obama Policies
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a summit Wednesday to highlight its views on creating jobs and challenge Obama administration policies it believes have allowed the country's employment rate to stagnate. "For the first time in my 40 years of observation, I truly think our free enterprise system is at risk," said Tom Bell, chairman of the Chamber's board of directors, opening the summit. "If you hear the conversations in Washington and read the popular press, everyone seems to see earning profit and creating wealth not as the heart and soul of our economy, but as a nefarious activity that ...
Greenpeace Stages Dramatic Protest at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGreenpeace sent four green-and-white squad cars labeled "Climate Crime Unit" to the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thursday morning, disrupting a field trip for local schoolchildren and provoking a response by D.C. police. Several demonstrators were arrested, but not before they had scaled the Chamber building on H Street, draping it in yellow "crime scene" tape and barking through bullhorns as if participating in a hostage negotiation. "We're asking the Chamber of Commerce to release our climate policy," said Molly Dorozenski, a Greenpeace official. "This is the ...
Prank Group Stages Fake Chamber of Commerce Event
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce has had a rough few weeks, taking public heat from the White House, organized labor and even its own members. Now, the venerable business group is making unwanted headlines again after what are thought to be members of the activist prankster group The Yes Men posed as Chamber officials and staged a fake policy event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The shenanigans began this morning when an email blast that looked remarkably like a regular Chamber email briefing went out to members of the press announcing that the group had caved to pressure and ...
White House Strikes Back at Chamber of Commerce
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA war of words and influence is breaking out between the White House and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the business lobby's opposition to most of President Obama's first-year agenda, Politico reported Monday. After the chamber launched a not-so-subtle effort last week to counter Obama's economic ideology, White House officials said they have been working directly with the group's corporate members to short-circuit its lobbying clout. "It's happening with the deliberate hope and attention to weaken the influence of this institute and the business community in town," said Bruce Josten, the ...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Relaunches Capitalism (Take That, Obama!)
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a highly political nationwide PR campaign intended to relaunch capitalism itself. The Chamber will spend tens of millions of dollars and buy advertising nationwide to persuade the American public that its agenda -- low taxes, open markets, and loose regulation -- are crucial elements of a job recovery. The new television spots, previewed for staff and press at the launch event Wednesday, celebrate small American entrepreneurs and argue that government intervention will not spur permanent job growth. The Chamber says the intensified lobbying effort ...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Launch 'Free Enterprise' Campaign
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAt a major event Wednesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will launch a multi-year, multimillion-dollar grass-roots campaign to promote free enterprise as a solution to the country's rising unemployment rate. The effort, called the Campaign for Free Enterprise, aims to create 20 million jobs in the next 10 years. The chamber, which lobbies for business interests, has said that it hopes to remind Americans of free-market values in the face of growing government "interference" in the economy. "There are growing concerns about interference with the private marketplace and the private economy, and ...
Health Care Opposition Ads Put on Hold for Ted Kennedy's Funeral
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWhile watching coverage of the memorials to Ted Kennedy this weekend, viewers should also note what they're not seeing. Fox News reports that on Thursday the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pulled its $7.5 million ad campaign against health care reform in deference to Kennedy -- but the group plans to bring it back on Monday. ...
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