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Part V: Tort Reform or Pork Reform? Does the ATRA and the Chamber have something to hide?

By Steve Lombardi

I'm puzzled though about the ATRA would you mind answering a few questions for me?

• How much did the ATRA and the Chamber spend on ad campaigns last year?
• How much is in the budget this year for ads?
• What is the annual budget for the ATRA?
• And how about the Chamber?
• Where do they get their funding?
• Any come from outside this country? If so from where and how much?
• Do you believe in hedge funds making full disclosures?
• Does the ATRA and the Chamber have something to hide?
• If you won't answer these questions why won't the ATRA and the Chamber disclose where they get their donations?

Is there a commonality of interests between the ATRA, the American Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Communist Party? Don't you all advocate for a lack of corporate accountability?

Is that where the ATRA and Chamber get some funding? Isn't profit the reason why these organizations choose to try and cripple the American judicial system? What was it I saw written last week, Poorly Made In China, by Paul Midler. Here is something written by Alana Flipovich from Shanghai:

'Last year's milk scandal brought to light the worst excesses of cost cutting to make a buck in the new China. Poorly Made in China is a new business book told from an insider's perspective of the often murky waters of Chinese manufacturing. The insider in question is Paul Midler, a China business veteran who in the course of his career has worked directly with hundreds of manufacturers in China. Urbanatomy caught up with him to discuss his controversial new book...'

That sounds amazing similar to what we experienced in the American financial markets. Let's look at another recent business policy that has similarities between communist China and American capitalism. It's what they both refer to as land ownership reforms.

Is the American Tort Reform Association and the Chamber also in favor of any government taking private land to resell to big developers? Remember the Kelo vs. New London, Connecticut case involving eminent domain. The taking of privately owned land and handing it off to private business interests is going on in both communist and capitalist countries. While it's a communist governmental policy the American business community has embraced its introduction in America with open arms. Recent video from China and the reports from America look and sound quite similar.

Communist China takes private land to make private businessmen a profit. Does America? Aren't we the capitalists fighting for freedom? I thought we were. You watch and you decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlmdGTDPkKE

I don't support Ron Paul and this isn't about his politics but the clip is shorter than most so I selected it.

_______________ Connecticut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1wS0_blGAw

Listen to the homeowner Susette Kelo describe how corporate America using the power of government took this little pink house and evicted the homeowner. It's as despicable in China as it is in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1svadJQ40

_______________ Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKRqHcc9Q0

_______________ California

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7HnPOxG8MU

All of this makes me wonder whether communist influences are hiding behind organizations that advocate for corporations to be free from responsibility. So allow me a few questions.

Why is the American Tort Reform Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spending so much money on destroying the civil justice system?

Why aren't they spending money on restoring corporate accountability and preserving the rights of the American taxpayer?

Am I alone in seeing fewer and fewer differences between communist government policy and the American government's treatment of its own citizens? I've been asking myself how the ATRA fits into this correlation between their advocating for lowering corporate America's responsibility to the American people and how China treats its citizens. A judge in Omaha once said to me, if you want to know the reasons follow the money. And that's what I'm intending to do. Obviously the ATRA and the Chamber have a lot of money so how about showing us where you get it?

My guess is they won't. The ATRA and Chamber supporters who add comments shy away from using their legal names and continue to hide behind false or assumed names. They act like communists, sound like communist so I'm wondering who they really are. They want us to believe they really care about the American capitalist system; when in fact they act to destroy our economy. They preach about individual responsibility yet remain quiet when it comes to Wall Street excesses and corporate responsibility. While Big Pharma cooks prescription drug research the Chamber sits mute on the side lines.

They claim to care and to be the American heroes by talking about a cup of hot coffee, a pair of lost pants, one laptop, a goose on the loose and a box of cereal but their actions destroy the public's trust in corporate America and the financial markets. I'm not buying into their ideas and if I had it my way Congress would investigate where their money comes from. While the general public listens to their propaganda, I'll continue to represent the people that care about this country and that built it with their blood, sweat, broken backs and splintered lives. I'll keep looking widows and widowers in the eye and telling them there are forces at work in America whose only goal is to make their lives more miserable by destroying the American judicial system. Yes if I need to say it I'm proud to be an American trial lawyer.

You keep driving to work in cars that my client's hands made, on roads their broken backs constructed and having a nice office in a building that my ironworkers probably died building. I'll bet you like coffee in the morning while you sit around some big fancy conference room table (poorly made in China) talking about how to destroy the American workers chances of getting a fair shake? And when your kids play soccer they can thank the trial lawyers like me that sued and caused soccer goal manufacturers to redesign and manufacture them so the goal didn't fall over and cause your kids to become brain damaged.

Your organizations want all the benefits and none of the responsibility. Sounds like communism to me. Tomorrow allow me show you more of the America the ATRA and the Chamber wants and is trying to create.

Let's be back tomorrow for Part VI of this series called, Tort Reform or Pork Reform?

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).