Here is a letter I just sent to my local Chamber of Commerce, which unfortunately is a member of the US Chamber. Find out if your local chamber is a member of the US Chamber, and if they are send them this letter (or write your own like it). Local businesses are precious to all of us; they form the cornerstone of our economy, employing more Americans than any of the mega-corporations out there. If your local Chamber is a stand alone organization unaffiliated with the US Chamber, send them a quick message thanking them for supporting and protecting the local businesses, which are crucial to the strength and success of our great nation's economy and our future.
To whom it may concern,
I urge you to separate yourself from the US Chamber of Commerce, an association of which you seem proud enough to declare on the home page of this website. The US Chamber of Commerce is a political organization, not a business organization. As an employee of a local company which is a member of your organization, I feel that membership dues from my employer paid for by my hard work should not be going to fund attack advertisements against liberals, progressives, and those who seek to expand protections to the lower and middle classes, minorities, and small businesses. The US Chamber of Commerce is a group ran and mostly funded by an elite group of super rich businessmen, with the sole goal of shaping US legislation in such a way as to maximize their personal profits at the expense of, well, everyone else.
Your goal, as a local chamber of commerce is to support and protect LOCAL businesses, not the mega-millions multinational corporations at the helm of the US Chamber of Commerce. The US Chamber works towards goals in direct conflict with your own; including outsourcing, lowering wages and employee benefits, and the expansion their of mega corporations to near monopolistic proportions, destroying opportunities for new entrepreneurship and innovation in our local economy, and throughout the country.
I ask that you please send a message to the US Chamber of Commerce by disassociating yourselves from them. The message they need to be sent is that we will no longer let them destroy American jobs, American businesses, and American lives. The key to our economic recovery is small businesses, Mom and Pop shops being able to hire just 5 new employees, and guaranteeing that employees make enough money to contribute to the economy in a positive fashion. If the US Chamber of Commerce were to have its way, every job would be sent overseas resulting in billions of dollars of profits to their corporate benefactors, which leads to more money in their pockets.
Please, put no more money in their pockets. You represent local businesses, the little man, the weak, struggling entrepreneurs who only wish to succeed. Not the billionaires who are trying to ruin our country for their own personal gains.
Here is a wonderful example of what I would like to see from you, what I would love to see from every local Chamber of Commerce in America.
Support America. Support our economy. Support freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Do NOT support the US Chamber of Commerce.
Sincerely,
(Your name here)
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