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Unfair trade practices are wiping out jobs
Posted May 28, 2010“It’s the trade deficit, Stupid.” Maybe if people walked around with signs and T-shirts with that slogan rather than rail against the federal budget deficit, the American worker wouldn’t be in quite the fix he’s in. More people need to be mad that America is a sucker when it comes to global trade. Our trading partners ignore the rules handicapping our industries, and we just take it. Even as millions of Americans have lost jobs because of it.
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