An anti-ALEC protest in Minnesota last March. (Photo credit: Flickr user Fibonacci Blue)
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group most Americans have never heard of. ALEC works with lawmakers to secretly pass pro-corporate legislation in state legislatures nationwide.
Journalist Bill Moyers premiered his new mini-documentary on the group: “The United States of ALEC” during this morning’s broadcast of Democracy Now! ” Watch the documentary, which explores how the group has successfully passed corporate-written bills in states like Scott Walker’s Wisconsin:
more attacking business. I don’t get it, you whine about business going overseas, and exporting jobs, while at the same time you work hard to create a hostile environment for these companies to operate in. I have to say, If I were a big business, I would Set up my corporation over seas and create privately owned franchises to buy and distribute my goods. Let them pay the import taxes, and then I would not have to listen to or put up with liberals who despise success, and think of profits as a bad word.
It seems to me the companies created their own hostile environment by exporting jobs.
Liberals love success! This is where the imprecise use of language rears it’s ugly head. Profits is a conditionally good word at this time. If your profits are acquired in an unethical manner profit is a bad word. Conversely, Blah blah, woof,woof.
It’s not that profits are bad; it’s just that they should not be made on the backs of the poor in 3rd World countries.