Mr. President: It’s Economics 101
Hugh J. Campbell, son of a steelworker, sends us this :
The following is a response to President Obama Challenging CEOs to Hire the Jobless (see message after the jump).
Hugh J. Campbell, son of a steelworker, sends us this :
The following is a response to President Obama Challenging CEOs to Hire the Jobless (see message after the jump).
" Wear Jeans? Why Made in America Matters to You " is a cross-post from the Youth Monument blog , by Celeste Drake , trade and globalization policy specialist at the AFL-CIO .
“Buy American.” “Made in America.” In today’s interconnected world, those ideas might seem more like leftovers from the Cold War—not important maxims for America’s future. After all, young Americans are drinking Colombian coffee in the morning, skyping with friends in the U.K. at lunch, buying a made-in-China iPhone in the afternoon and drinking Italian wine in the evening. The idea of “Buying American,” or economic patriotism, might seem quaint, if not outright ridiculous.
Fact is, making things in America isn’t an obsolete idea. It’s how we built this country into the largest economy the world has ever seen. And it’s imperative for America’s future.
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We expect tonight’s debate will include more fantastical claims from Mitt Romney, and to inoculate you against “Romnesia,” we include some notes on the actual Romney-Ryan record. Despite Romney and Paul Ryan’s history of enthusiasm for outsourcing American jobs to China and elsewhere, they claim they would somehow be “tougher on China” than the Obama administration has been. We want to make sure you know about the real Romney-Ryan record on China before Romney tries to “etch-a-sketch” it away this evening.
This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post by Stan Sorscher, labor representative for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace/IFPTE Local 2001 ( SPEEA /IFPTE).
The other day, I had lunch with an economist I respect and admire. I asked him, what would it take for China to become a modern democracy and build a strong middle class?
OK. I didn't ask him that. I told him that China would need strong institutions of civil society and a deeper sense of a social contract to become a stable modern democracy with a dynamic middle class.
If there was ever a time to push Made in America products, the 2012 Summer Olympics is certainly it. However, according to an ABC News report , Team U.S.A. will be wearing Ralph Lauren uniforms Made in China when they compete in London this summer.
A bill to hold China accountable for its job-killing practice of currency manipulation passed its final procedural hurdle in the Senate this morning 62-38 and is expected to pass in a final vote later today.
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