<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A couple LTEs in response to an article about our job-loss report...<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Arthur Stamoulis</div><div>Oregon Fair Trade Campaign</div><div>(503) 736-9777</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=127905000574617200">http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=127905000574617200</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#666666">LETTERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:25.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">Kurt Schrader should reconsider
stance on TRADE Act<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Letters, July 14<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">, <span style="color:#666666">Jul 14, 2010</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">To the Editor:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Kurt Schrader has done well in his first term representing
Oregon in Congress, but his understanding of global trade and its effect on
American workers is lacking. About the call from representatives of Blue Heron
paper mill workers ("Workers rally against free trade at Blue Heron,"
July 7) to pass the TRADE Act, Schrader "acknowledges that China has
caused a lot of pressure on local paper mills, but maintains that such
processing plants will not be the answer to the recession".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">The problem with trade is not limited to U.S. paper plants.
NAFTA, GATT, WTO and the whole global trade regime have destroyed millions of
family-wage jobs in our nation - allowing corporations to move production where
wages, worker rights and environmental protection are minimal. When the U.S.,
which has been called "the Saudi Arabia of cellulose", cannot compete
in the recycled paper market, something is very wrong. Neither can we compete
at making cars, steel, machinery, nor electronics; all because of the free
trade policy so long in favor in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">If the U.S. economy is to export more, we need a level playing
field on which to compete. That is the purpose of the TRADE Act. Yes, the act
is tough and comprehensive It must be to counteract decades of job-destroying
treaties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Schrader should look into the issue further. The livelihoods of
his constituents and the economic health of his district are at stake.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Tom Civiletti<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Oak Grove</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:
15.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Congressman’s
comments ‘uninformed’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">To the Editor:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Thank you for Raymond Rendleman's article about trade-related
job losses in Oregon ("Workers rally against free trade at Blue
Heron," July 7). While the reporting itself was very strong, I found the
comments by freshman Congressman Kurt Schrader both uninformed and offensive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">In the article, the Congressman appeared to argue that
supporting trade deals that offshore Oregon's manufacturing jobs is okay,
because we can also export more under them. Once the high-paying mill and
factory jobs he cares so little about are gone, what does he think we're going
to be exporting anyhow?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">It's true that the nation's free trade agreements have increased
U.S. exports, but they've largely been of subsidized and/or low-value products
like corn and scrap metal. Meanwhile, these trade policies have also resulted
in record levels of imports, creating a massive trade deficit that is directly
responsible, as Rendleman's story suggested, for 10,000 job losses in Oregon
over the past year alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">If Congressman Schrader thinks he's going to strengthen the
state's economy – or win re-election – by support job-killing trade deals, he's
got another thing coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-indent:14.0pt;line-height:
16.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;
color:#222222">Tom Holden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia;color:#222222">Albany</span></p>
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