Chamber Of Commerce Abandons Small States
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce finally launched its much-anticipated American Free Enterprise site today, which among other things, strives to create "the 20 million jobs needed in the next decade to replace the jobs lost in the current recession and to meet the needs of America's growing workforce."
According to Politico:
Organizers say the multimillion-dollar program will include grass-roots mobilization, national advertising, public education, outreach to opinion leaders and extensive involvement by young people.
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The Chamber plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on the campaign and has hired Brian Gunderson, a former top Bush administration official, to lead it. Its website is 20millionjobchallenge.com, and its Twitter account is @freeenterprise.
The site notes:
In every state, city, and town across America, individuals are struggling to build and maintain their businesses, not only for themselves and their employees but for the millions of Americans who can't find jobs today and the millions more who will need jobs tomorrow. American free enterprise has lifted this country out of tough times before, and it must be free to do so now and in the future.
A section of the Chamber's new site contains an interactive 20M Job Challenge Map, which highlights the Chamber's goal of job creation for each state. Despite stating that people in every state, city and town across America are struggling from the recession, the Chamber's job-creation goal for Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington, D.C. where the Chamber itself is based, is 0. In the midst of a recession, why is the Chamber so pessimistic about the ability of free enterprise to create jobs in Wyoming or The Dakotas?
