The American Prospect

In the context of the immigration debate, Robert Kuttner made the following comment in American Prospect Online, in a post titled The Tchotchke Economy:

The Republican Party is now split between business groups who want cheap workers and jingoists who are just plain anti-immigrant. The nativist wing of the GOP plays both to the national security and economic fears of ordinary Americans.

While I find this comment interesting and some of his facts about real income disturbing, he doesn’t mention how we can address the growing problem of the income gap. This missing element demonstrates one of the motivations of this blog; if I agree that a problem exists, what should I do resolve the problem? Perhaps we should help widen the split in the Christian-Republican Party.

As a progressive small business person, do you belong to your local Chamber of Commerce?