The Chamber of Commerce and the other trade groups associated with it gussied up their plea to stop the “Buy America” mandates as being in the American interest. It’s all for the American good, they argued. But the fact is that the Chamber of Commerce does not represent America. It’s the front group for the big international corporations and Wall Street. While the middle class stagnated, these interests grew rich in deliberately de-industrializing the U.S. Now they want to protect their investments in China. It’s really as simple as that.

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