Chamber of Commerce versus the American worker

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce stacks up squarely against me, you, and others who work hard to put food on the table.

Now the Chamber has joined an effort to make that big, mean Obama administration loosen "buy American" rules that apply to government agencies that use stimulus funds.

These rules - like the stimulus itself - were designed to perk up the long-ailing American economy. What good would the stimulus be if it didn't protect American jobs?

It would actually be a lot of good for the global greed merchants who want more power to exploit sweatshop labor abroad. But bad for American workers.

The Chamber of Commerce's plen-T-plaint isn't limited only to their attempts to gut "buy American" guidelines that govern stimulus spending. The Chamber also has its boxers in a spectacle over "buy American" provisions being included in other spending bills.

One labor official said that the Chamber's stance "doesn't pass the U.S. economic interest laugh test. The U.S. Chamber in Washington should change its name to the Chamber for Offshoring U.S. Jobs."

If the Chamber is so interested in "free trade", why doesn't it support eliminating new right-wing border restrictions that prevented a Michigan woman from even visiting her friends right across the river in Canada?

(Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/us-chamber-of-commerce-joins-fight-against-buy-american/article1178098)