comments_image Comments  Chamber of Commerce Launches $100
Million Campaign to Protect Wall Street's Power at Our Expense
The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's
working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.
See more stories tagged with:   • submit to reddit   • submit to
reddit  Perhaps the greatest public deception surrounding
today's financial meltdown is the notion that it is unique -- a
once-in-a-lifetime crisis that reflects bad luck rather than any
fundamental problem with the U.S. banking system's sway in
global politics.  The truth is that throughout the 1980s, the
major money center banks were in much the same situation they
find themselves in today.  But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
plans to spend $100 million on a lobbying push to tell you the
otherwise. It's a very careful strategy designed to ensure that
Wall Street maintains the power to hijack the economy and demand
epic bailouts from ordinary citizens as a reward for its own
greed.  The name may soun