No, China did not steal those jobs from us. Like all those once American companies who choose to call China their home it was greedy American business who handed them to her by using the Free Trade Act so 15 million-plus jobs got outsourced and countless companies. It also let them drop their union contracts. They headed for China they have and abundance of cheap labor plus fewer restrictions. This was a big loss to labor and also cut down all forms of taxes as it hurt the economy too. Pushed along by eight years of G. W. Bush, two wars, the big oil ripoff plus the worst financial scandal in our history. So where was Mr. Romney going to find 12 millions jobs? Those outsourced jobs and all those companies they are gone. Yes, gone like yesterday and gone like the ‘57 Cadillac gone and they ain’t coming back. They are gone like your hopes and dreams. They sailed away on the greedy winds of change. So our loss is China’s gain. We walk the dragon — how long he will reign so who do we blame? President Obama, not the winds of change. Things will never again be the same.
L.P. Schultes
Brainerd
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Add commentMitt didn't say those would
Mitt didn't say those would be American jobs.
I think most Americans (including me) also deserve some of the blame by buying so many cheap goods from China. There was a time when the price wasn't that much different between American and Chinese produced goods but many shoppers chose to save a few pennies and used their dollar vote against the US.
Add that to the outright greed on the part of the corporate leaders and stock holders and here we are with probably 90% of our goods on the shelf with the "Made in China" sticker.
Clinton and NAFTA and GATT
1. China is NOT part of NAFTA!
2. American jobs were going overseas LONG before Bill Clinton was president!
3. GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) has been with us since 1947, the year after Bill Clinton was born.