The Chamber of Commerce are nothing but a bunch of welfare queens.

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Recently, the US Chamber of Commerce claimed through its spokesman that it supports candidates who support "free enterprise policies that will fuel America's economic recovery." The US Chamber of Commerce has a rather idiosyncratic definition of free-enterprise policies.

The chamber was a major supporter of SOPA, which gives governments the ability to seize private property without any due process whatsoever, and it supported the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which stole about a trillion dollars from the taxpayers so that the US government could buy up huge portions of the financial sector.

It also supported No Child Left Behind, Obama's "stimulus" program, and the auto bailouts.

And yet the chamber still claims with a straight face to support free-enterprise policies, and specifically, to support candidates who support free enterprise. But on this issue as well, the chamber's standard for what counts as free enterprise appears to be somewhat divorced from reality.

For example, as Timothy Carney noted in 2010,

The US Chamber of Commerce has issued its 2009 congressional scorecard, and once again, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex. — certainly one of the two most free-market politicians in Washington — gets the lowest score of any Republican. Paul was one of a handful of GOP lawmakers not to win the Chamber's "Sprit of Enterprise Award." He scored only a 67%, bucking the Chamber on four votes, including:

Paul opposed the "Solar Technology Roadmap Act," which boosted subsidies for unprofitable solar energy technology.

Paul opposed the "Travel Promotion Act," which subsidizes the tourism industry with a new fee on international visitors.

Paul opposed the largest spending bill in history, Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill.

As of 2010, Paul has a cumulative scorecard of 63 percent, putting him behind such free-market stalwarts as Mary Landrieu of Louisiana (69 percent) and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (64 percent).

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I know, I'm linking an old article and an article to a website that promotes true free markets. The point is, the GOP is in bed with the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce is simply a front organization to lobby for corporate welfare programs. They are part of the problem.

Problem = crony capitalism. And crony capitalism is bad for the US economy because it consolidates big business, stifles innovation, advocates for higher taxes, enriches the political class, blocks competition and steals tax dollars from the citizens.

The Chamber of Commerce is really really bad for America. Don't fall for their "free-market" propaganda. They are an organization full of liars, deceivers, phonies, or in other words, they are an organization full of Obama's with a GOP face. It's time for the Chamber of Commerce to be exposed (or reminded for some of us) for what that are, a bunch of corporate welfare queens.