Chamber's true agenda: Corporate profits through outsourcing #p2 @gop @chamberpost

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The real business of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is what's good for the "commerce" part and not so much the "U.S" part. Here's more from Think Progress on the Chamber's efforts in China.

Among the many lies told by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently, chief Chamber lobbyist Bruce Josten said that his organization's foreign affiliates, called AmChams, are only "comprised of American companies doing business abroad in those countries." In fact, the Chinese AmCham is comprised of Chinese firms like Northern Light Venture Capital; the AmCham in Russia is comprised of Russian state-run companies like VTB Bank; and, the AmCham of Abu Dhabi is comprised of UAE state-run oil companies.

The ties between the AmChams and the U.S. Chamber are deep. In addition to sharing staff members, the Chinese AmCham has worked closely with the U.S. Chamber and the Chinese government to sponsor a series of seminars in America to teach American businesses how to outsource jobs to China (called the China Grassroots Program). Below is an invite [view it here] to an event sponsored by the right-wing billionaire Sheldon Adelson, inviting local businesses in Florida to come to Jacksonville and learn about outsourcing from Chinese government officials like Li Haiyan, the Counselor for Economic Affairs for the People's Republic of China, U.S. Chamber lobbyist Joseph Fawkner, and BChinaB, a firm that specializes in helping American firms outsource their manufacturing jobs to China.

ThinkProgress has done an excellent job of connecting the dots in this story, from the direct foreign donations into "the same 501(c)(6) political account the Chamber is using to run an unprecedented $75 million attack ad campaign against progressives," to the fact that among these foreign supporters are the world's largest outsourcing companies.

So the Village continues to yawn (today it's David Brooks while the Chamber and Karl Rove spend more and more to buy a Congress that will make it that much easier for jobs to be sent overseas. And as Greg Sargent says, no one is talking about the big lies in the ads with which voters are incessantly being pummelled.