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In reply to the discussion: 100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The fact is that as long as we allow Chinese goods produced at slave labor wages with horrible environmental impacts to enter our country and be sold here without sizable compensation for the damage they do to our economy and environment, we are harming ourselves when we trade with China.
Obama's manufacturing stimulus plan will not work if the prices of the products produced are undercut by sloppy Chinese factories.
The damage that the sloppily made foreign imports cause to our environment because their short lives and planned obsolescence is horrible. Of course you can undercut American prices and manufacturing with junky products.
I don't think that Obama's manufacturing stimulus will work unless we impose some labor and environmental standards on imports and support our own manufacturing by imposing tariffs on certain foreign goods.