The National Scene - Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:07 - 0 Comments

U.S. Chamber helped to create to current financial crisis

A recent report concludes that the U.S. Chamber’s aggressive lobbying in Congress to eliminate accountability and oversight helped cause our nation’s current financial crisis. The report was released to the public and contained some extremely interesting information relating to how the Chamber has worked to protect wrongdoers and in the process has hurt millions of people. In the report, payments from bailed-out AIG to the Washington corporate lobby were exposed. As we all know, the U.S. Chamber was the strongest supporter of the $700 billion taxpayer bailout, which is more than just a little weird – it’s bizarre. That’s because the Chamber spent the last decade fighting to eliminate corporate accountability.

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