SC “Small Biz Chamber” Backs Obamacare, Energy Tax
For years, the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce has existed as nothing more than a pawn for government-growing politicians and the TV personal injury lawyer lobby. Founded by a former Democratic Representative and run by an uber-liberal public relations hack, the Chamber has fought for years against tort reform and workers’ compensation reform while refusing to support tax cuts and government spending caps.
It’s a joke people … much like its “10,000″ members, a figure it achieves by co-opting the entire membership directory of the S.C. Trial Lawyers Association … err, sorry, the “S.C. Association for Justice.”
Basically, on every issue that impacts small businesses, the “S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce” can be found opposing the best interests of small businesses.
It’s pure oxymoronisitude, were that a word.
Just last year, in fact, the Chamber endorsed a massive government-run economic development effort – with the caveat that the bureaucrats should also create a new agency to “lead” the state’s small businesses.
Gag us with spoons.
This year?
The Chamber is going not one, but two better … supporting both Obamacare and the Cap and Trade energy tax hike, two bills which would have devastating impacts on South Carolina small businesses.
Indeed, within the framework of the health care debate, the S.C. Small Business Chamber specifically supports “a public option within the insurance exchange” as well as “a mandate for all individuals to have health insurance.”
Sheesh … and this is the group that purports to represent South Carolina small businesses?
So much for being the “reddest” state in the nation, people …
UPDATE: Yes, that’s a “snake in the grass” pictured above. An Eastern Diamondback rattler, to be precise …
Comments
By Liberty For Me on November 8th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
If you think cap&trade and government health care are good ideas you have no clue to how our monetary system works.At the rate we are going in debt right now we will be in poverty with no monetary foundation within 10-15 years…With government health care it just speeds up the clock.The politicians know this, they are not stupid.When it collapses it will give them power to re-write our whole government and make us all peasants
By Ynot on November 8th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Mandates began under Mitt Romney a few years ago in Massachusetts. Another Republican- with strong ties to the banking industry.
By memee on November 8th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
The diamond back rattler is a noble breed.
It is known as the gentleman snake.
It always rattles as a warning before it strikes.
Perhaps a more appropriate animal to symbolize the SC Small Biz Chamber would be a leech or a tick.
By Red Bank Bar on November 9th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Since the older Chamber of Commerce and fitz are totally-owned subsidiaries of the Insurance industry, Frank Knapp must be doing something right to draw this sort of fact-free fire.
Keep up the good work for SMALL business. Corporate welfare is rotting South Carolina. So what if lawyers belong. Members of SCAJ are both small businesses and represent people with first and last names rather than Aetna, Hartford, et al.
Coming from a weasel who can never get his probiscus far enough up Howie Rich’s arse, this thread is high praise for Frank Knapp.
By fitsnews on November 9th, 2009 at 7:46 am
RBB-
What’s fact free? We are bringing to people’s attention the positions this organization has taken publicly.
We oppose them, you support them.
Moving on …
-FITS
By baked on November 9th, 2009 at 10:10 am
anyone who believes the crap frank knapp peddles is a lost cause anyway.
By Walter Carr on November 9th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Comrade Knapp and the “S. C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce” are in deed snakes in the grass. The orginazation that actually advocates on behalf of the small business community in South Carolina and across the country is: NFIB, National Federation of Small Bussiness. Over 5,000 South Carolina small businesses are NFIB members. We have nothing in common with Comrade Knapp’s trial lawyer funded cynicial organization. We believe in free enterprise, less regulation, shrinking governemnt, eliminating corprate welfare,meaningful TORT REFORM and oh so much more that Cormare Knapp and his bogus trial lawyers organization are against.
Walter Carr, Chairman NFIB-SC Leadership Council
By RedBank Bar on November 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Mr. Carr and the rest of the cadre at NBIF have always been tools of the insurance industry and subsrvient to big bidness. They’ve always been too dumb to realize that small businesses are much more likely to be sued by large business than to face any sort of tort claim. The most important resource of small business is its workers. The NFIB ALWAYS takes the side of the insurance industry when it comes to conflicts between workers and insurance companies.
Insurance reform is the single most helpful step that could assist small business in the US and the NBIB has ALWAYS fought inurance reform.
fitz fact-free postings emphasize that reality of being in the hip-pocket of the insurance industry.
By Isaac Bickerstaff on November 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Cap and Rape is the next step in the Hague’s plot to destroy the nation state. The Europeans started it with the EU and now you see it coming to our shores. Just wait and see. The WTO, G8, the Rothschild’s and UN will have you marching in chains.
By weighing in on November 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Gotta agree with RBB here on the NFIB portion…they’ve always been pawns of the national group and work very hard on issues that are unimportant in the grand scheme of things to their members…get behind insurance reform NFIB, be a leader for once. I used to be a member until I realized i was getting nothing from this group other than what they were doing with the State Chamber of Commerce, which in fact represents big business. Business is regulated, lawyers (which are a business) are regulated, doctors are regulated, but only the insurance industry and major league baseball aren’t subject to anti-trust laws. Wake up NFIB….WAKE UP!
As to the Mr.Knapp fellow…don’t know him.