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The Next Debate: China and Trade Deficit

Monday's final campaign debate focuses on foreign policy. Will it focus on our policy of running huge trade deficits with China? Every dollar of trade deficits makes our country a dollar poorer. That trade deficit is the deficit that our Washington elites should be worried about.

The China Trade Deficit

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Is This Why Romney Won't Talk To Sensata Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Shipped To China?

On the campaign trail Romney says we shouldn't ship jobs to China and should "crack down" on China trade problems. But he refuses to help or even meet with the Sensata workers whose jobs are being shipped to China right now. more »

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Election Or Not, What Happens To Sensata-Style Workers?

A group of workers whose jobs are being outsourced to China is touring the "rust belt." They are trying to make an election point. But what about the day after the election?

Sensata Workers - More Jobs Going To China

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Ohio And China -- One Side Promises While The Other Delivers

Ohio is the center of the Presidential election, and the center of the fight over manufacturing policy and trade policy. Polls overwhelmingly show that the public gets it that the trade deal with China is the core of the problem. So both campaigns are making promises to fix the problem. One difference, though, is that one side just makes promises while the other side has actually delivered. more »

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Why The Latest Trade Complaint Against China Matters

The Obama administration has filed a trade complaint against China for violations involving "extensive" government subsidies for autos and auto parts.

From Reuters, at HuffPo: Barack Obama: China Auto Subsidies 'Directly Harm Working Men And Women', more »

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More Trade Actions - Wind Turbine Towers, Washing Machines

The game is to underprice your product until your competitors go out of business (like Solyndra & other solar companies). Then you own the market. This is about a lot more than just jobs. Our government is finally doing something about leveling the playing field! more »

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Job Fear From Trade Deficit Is What Happened To Jobs And The Middle Class

The middle class is disappearing. Our economy is "hollowing out" because the money goes to the top and the people fall to the bottom. This is because we allow American companies to close factories here and open them there, shipping the same goods back here to sell in the same stores, costing jobs, companies, industries and our economy. more »

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Obama Takes Action On China Trade

What did you think the word "trade" meant? You probably thought it meant we buy from them, and they buy from us, and we both get richer. I'll bet you never thought "trade" means we buy from them, and they don't buy from us, and they get richer and we get poorer, did you? more »

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Trade Deficit - One Root Of Many Problems

You buy things till your wallet is empty. So you raid the savings account to buy more stuff. Then you get a loan, and buy more stuff. Another loan, another, you keep buying stuff... Finally you're selling off the tools you had used to make a living. That's where the country is now because of the huge imbalance in our trade relationships. more »

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Apple/Foxconn Promises -- We'll See

The "independent" audit of working conditions at Apple's Chinese manufacturing supply chain is out, and it is not good. Workers are being exploited in ways that violate human rights standards and laws, and letting them get away with this is costing us our own jobs. Apple's suppliers promise to improve conditions, make workplaces safer, stop forcing such long hours and lift wages. more »

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