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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ourfuture.org/20160311/free-trade-the-elites-are-selling-it-but-the-public-is-longer-buying?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak">https://ourfuture.org/20160311/free-trade-the-elites-are-selling-it-but-the-public-is-longer-buying?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Museo700","serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal">“Free Trade”: The Elites Are Selling It But The Public Is Longer Buying<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">MARCH 11, 2016<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif""><img border="0" width="60" height="60" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D17B87.E070DF30" alt="Dave Johnson"></span><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif""><a href="http://ourfuture.org/" title="Visit Dave Johnson’s website"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Dave
Johnson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">“Free trade”: The elites are selling it but the public is longer buying it. Look at the support for Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, especially in light of Sanders’
surprise 20-point comeback in this week’s Michigan primary. With primaries coming soon in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, will Sanders’ trade appeal resonate again?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Voters See Free Trade Killing Their Jobs And Wages</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Voters have figured out that our country’s current “free trade” policies are killing their jobs, wages, cities, regions and the country’s middle class. Giant multinational corporations
and billionaires do great under free trade, the rest of us not so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Elites say increasing trade is always good. But when you close a factory here, then open the factory “there” and bring the same goods back to sell in the same outlets, you have “increased
trade” because those goods now cross a border. The differential between wages paid here and there goes into the pockets of the executives and shareholders. Those unemployed American workers add to wage pressures on the rest of us. Inequality increases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">There are other bad consequences as the effects of free trade ripple through local economies. The stores and gas stations and restaurants where the workers shopped and dined have to
cut back. The factory’s suppliers have to cut back and lay off, too. Property values drop in the neighborhoods where all of those workers lived. The local tax base erodes. Roads and buildings and downtowns deteriorate… (The old lead pipes going to the houses
do not get replaced.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">On a national scale, these local effects add up to a tragedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The national industrial ecosystem collapses as well. The manufacturing “know-how” migrates out of the country. The schools that taught people how to do what the factory did drop those
classes. The investors who know how to evaluate manufacturing proposals go away. The raw materials pipeline migrates away. Reviving the outsourced industries will require tremendous and nationally coordinated investment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">For decades we’ve been told all this is actually good for “us.” But people have come to understand that the “us” this is good for doesn’t include about 99 percent of “us” or our country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Trade Behind Sanders’ Michigan Upset</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Sanders’ Michigan primary upset was most likely driven by his repeated trade message. Michigan’s primary upset demonstrates again that voters have caught on that our country’s trade
policies have sent millions of jobs out of the country, put tremendous downward pressure on wages, decimated regions of the country (Flint, Detroit, the “rust belt”) and are dealing a death blow to America’s middle class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Watch this Sanders ad on the damage our trade deals have done:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">While people talk about “NAFTA” (the North American Free Trade Agreement) the term is really used as a shorthand for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueW01-It","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">all
of</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">our country’s disastrous trade policies,
including the millions of jobs and tens of thousands of factories outsourced to China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.55pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Dave Jamieson, Labor Reporter at The Huffington Post, writes about how trade contributed to Sanders’ upset, in “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-michigan-trade_us_56e031e9e4b0860f99d74646"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Why
Bernie Sanders And Donald Trump Won The Michigan Primaries</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:17.4pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The exit polling from Michigan indicates that most voters there are wary of free trade agreements — and that Sanders and Trump drubbed their opponents among those voters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:17.4pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">According to CNN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/mi/Dem"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">58
percent of Democratic voters polled</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>after casting ballots said they believe U.S. trade with other countries takes away U.S. jobs, compared with just 30 percent who said they believe it creates them. Among
that group, Sanders won by a whopping 17-point margin: 58 percent to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s 41 percent. He won the primary overall by less than a 2-point margin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">[. . .] Trade — and resentment toward U.S. trade policy — has been the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-people-really-support-trump-and-sanders_us_56be3c46e4b0b40245c6a159"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">sleeper
issue</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in 2016. By eliminating trade barriers with low-wage countries, the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent treaties over the past two decades have encouraged U.S. companies to move jobs
to countries where workers are paid less.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Sanders has made a point of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-flint-debate_us_56dcf045e4b0000de4050807?xeu680k9"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">pressing
Clinton on trade</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>throughout the Democratic debates, including just days ago. The Vermont independent has been a vocal opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with 12 Pacific Rim countries
championed by President Barack Obama. Clinton’s stance on the deal hasn’t been<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/08/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-now-opposes-trans-pacific-partners/"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">nearly
as clear</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The New York Times reported in “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Trade
and Jobs Key to Victory for Bernie Sanders</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Mr. Sanders pulled off a startling upset in Michigan on Tuesday by traveling to communities far from Detroit and by hammering Mrs. Clinton on an issue that resonated in this still-struggling
state: her past support for trade deals that workers here believe robbed them of manufacturing jobs. Almost three-fifths of voters said that trade with other countries was more likely to take away jobs, according to exit polls by Edison Research, and those
voters favored Mr. Sanders by a margin of more than 10 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.55pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">At The Washington Post, David Weigel and Lydia DePillis write in, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voters-skeptical-on-free-trade-drive-sanders-trump-victories-in-michigan/2016/03/09/455e1704-e619-11e5-bc08-3e03a5b41910_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fcard"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Voters
skeptical on free trade drive Sanders, Trump victories in Michigan</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The salience of trade, in a state where unemployment had tumbled more than half since the start of the Great Recession, blindsided a Democratic Party that has struggled to find coherence
between its labor base and its neoliberal leadership. It also worried Republicans, whose leaders and donors are resolutely in favor of free trade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">“There has been a bipartisan conventional wisdom that the damage done to working-class jobs and incomes are simply part of inevitable changes, ones we cannot and should not challenge,”
said Larry Mishel, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “Even President Obama is blaming inequality problems on technological change, which is not even a plausible explanation for post-2000 America. People correctly understand that many
elites simply believe that wage stagnation is something we cannot change.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">… In Michigan, exit pollsters for the first time asked voters whether they thought trade created or took away American jobs. The “take away” faction made up 55 percent of the Republican
primary vote and 57 percent of the Democratic primary vote. Trump won the GOP faction with 45 percent, and Sanders won the Democratic side with 56 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Trump, Too</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.55pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">A YUGE part of Donald Trump’s appeal is his position on trade. A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueW01-It","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">new
poll shows</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">that 66% of</span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueW01-It","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Republican</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">voters
oppose TPP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.55pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch: inherit">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Last week’s post,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ourfuture.org/20160302/trump-taps-into-economic-anxiety-resulting-from-free-trade"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Trump
Taps Into Economic Anxiety Resulting From ‘Free Trade’</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>noted that “Trump is tapping into an economic anxiety felt by many, many Americans. Our trade policies are at the root of this anxiety, and Trump knows
it and says it, and people nod their heads.” Here is Trump speaking after the “Super Tuesday” primaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Our nation is in serious trouble. we’re being killed on trade, absolutely destroyed, China is just taking advantage of us. I have nothing against China, I have great respect for China
but their leaders are just too smart of our leaders, our leaders don’t have a clue. And the trade deficits at 400 billion dollars and 500 billion dollars, are too much, no country can sustain that kind of trade deficit. It won’t be that way for long, we have
the greatest business leaders in the world, on my team already, and believe me we’re going to redo those trade deals and it’s going to be a thing of beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Trump has been sounding this message throughout his campaign. Here is Trump on trade from last November:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-bernie-sanders_us_56c51ccee4b0c3c55053bf71"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Trump</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on
Sanders:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">“I’ll tell you, there’s one thing that we’ve very similar on,” Trump said during a town hall hosted by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. “He knows that our country is being
ripped off big league, big league, on trade.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Elites Getting The Message</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The country’s elites might just be getting the message. The D.C. insider newsletter Daily 202 agrees, in “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/09/daily-202-six-explanations-for-bernie-sanders-s-surprise-win-in-michigan/56df2e58981b92a22d78d6d3/"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Six
explanations for Bernie Sanders’s surprise win in Michigan</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">1. A message of economic populism, particularly protectionism, is much more potent in the Rust Belt than we understood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Most Michiganders feel like they are victims of trade deals, going back to NAFTA under Bill Clinton, and they’re deeply suspicious of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Outsourcing has helped
hollow out the state’s once mighty manufacturing core.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Trump and Sanders both successfully tapped into this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Six in 10 Michigan Democratic primary voters said international trade takes away U.S. jobs, and Sanders won these voters by roughly 20 points, according to preliminary exit poll data
reported by CNN. Only 3 in 10 thought trade creates jobs; Clinton won that group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">One-third of voters said Clinton is too pro-business. Sanders won more than four in five of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">… Clinton, after speaking supportively of the TPP, flip-flopped once the agreement was signed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Similarly, D.C.-insider Politico, “<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/how-did-bernie-sanders-win-michigan-220486"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">5
takeaways from Bernie’s Michigan miracle</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">4. Free trade is Clinton’s albatross. Just as the cable networks were calling the shocker for Sanders, an email popped into my inbox from one architect of Obama’s 2008 triumph, who was
travelling overseas. “Americans really hate free trade,” he wrote. “Don’t know how else to explain it. Same thing running through republican race.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Clinton … has the burden of schlepping the albatross of NAFTA with her throughout the Midwest. This is where voters’ lack of trust and her core belief in the value of open markets for
American manufacturers collide: When Clinton questions free trade nobody really believes her; Sanders’ thunderous anti-free trade talk taps a vein of deep grievance, his cash advantage allowed him to saturate markets with word of his opposition to TPP and
NAFTA – and his debate-stage answer on the topic was pithier and more convincing than Clinton’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Will Sanders’ Trade Position Resonate In Upcoming Primaries?</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">There are primaries coming soon in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, and there are signs that a fair trade message is breaking through. The Alliance for American Manufacturing
took a look at one of these states, Ohio, writing in,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/ohioans-love-manufacturing-and-favor-getting-tough-on-china-trade"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Ohioans
Love Manufacturing — and Favor Getting Tough on China Trade</span></a>“:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">And a new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://s.bsd.net/aamweb/main/page/file/3fb4b564576e45d41f_pum6ieivk.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">statewide
poll of likely Ohio voters</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>finds trade will likely be a dominant issue in the March 15 primary, as vast majorities of respondents worry that the United States has “lost too many manufacturing jobs” and
think it would be effective to “crack down on foreign countries that violate their trade agreements.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">… Conducted Feb. 27 to March 2 by Public Opinion Research and The Mellman Group, the poll looked at voter opinion on trade, manufacturing and the presidential candidates. Researchers
discovered that while support for American manufacturing is nearly universal, majorities of respondents are worried about a shrinking middle class and the impact of manufacturing job loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Most participants are also concerned about foreign trade, including with China. Ninety-one percent agreed that it’s time for crack down on countries that violate trade agreements, and
83 percent said that it is important that China is officially declared a currency manipulator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">… Other key findings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● 93 percent of participants worry that the U.S. has “lost too many manufacturing jobs in this country.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● 74 percent of participants have unfavorable views of “manufactured goods made in China,” including 77 percent of “conservative” respondents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● 96 percent of participants are favorable of “manufactured goods made in America,” including 98 percent of “conservative members of the GOP.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● 92 percent of participants think that “too many jobs are being shipped overseas” and 86 percent are worried they “don’t seem to manufacture anything here in America anymore.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina have also been hammered by outsourcing of jobs caused by trade policies and likely have similar sentiments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"ClassicGrotesqueSemiBold","serif";color:#111111;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">There Is A Better Way To Do Trade</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Current U.S. trade policies are written by representatives of multinational corporations with the intent of locking in their dominance while driving wages and environmental costs down.
The resulting agreements are clearly in their interests and not the rest of us. Our country’s<a href="https://ourfuture.org/20160304/enormous-humongous-january-trade-deficit-hots-jobs-wages"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">enormous,
humongous trade deficit</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a metric for understanding the damage being done to our country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">Now that the public is clearly rejecting the current trade approach, there are alternatives available. Just having non-corporate stakeholders including representatives of labor, consumer,
human rights, environmental and other groups at the table would bring about a more fair and just trade regime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released “<a href="http://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/hot-topics/progressive-caucus-releases-trade-principles-that-put-workers-first-in-trade-agreements1/"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Trade
Principles that Put Workers First in Trade Agreements</span></a>.” Click through for details, but summarized:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● Protect Congress’ Authority to Set Trade Policy<br>
● Restore Balanced trade<br>
● Put Workers First<br>
● Stop Currency Manipulation<br>
● Expand Buy America Procurement Practices<br>
● Protect the Environment for Future Generations<br>
● Prioritize Consumers above Profits<br>
● Protect Nationhood Rights<br>
● Secure Affordable Access to Essential Medicines and Services<br>
● Respect Human Rights<br>
● Provide a Safety Net for Vulnerable Workers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">The 2013 AFL-CIO convention passed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.aflcio.org/About/Exec-Council/Conventions/2013/Resolutions-and-Amendments/Resolution-12-America-and-the-World-Need-a-New-Approach-to-Trade-and-Globalization"><span style="color:#1B5288;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none">Resolution
12: America and the World Need a New Approach to Trade and Globalization,</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>calling for a “people-centered trade policy” that will:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#111111">● Create shared gains for the workers whose labor creates society’s wealth.<br>
● Strengthen protections for the environment. Companies must not use trade rules to pit one country’s environmental rules against another, as they seek the lowest-cost place to produce.<br>
● Protect the freedom to regulate in the public interest.<br>
● Set rules for fair competition. Workers of a nation must not be unduly disadvantaged by unfair economic competition resulting from choices about how to organize their economies.<br>
● Include strong rules of origin so that trade agreements are not merely a conduit to ease the global corporation’s race to the bottom.<br>
● Not provide extraordinary privileges to foreign investors.<br>
● Effectively address currency manipulation.<br>
● Retain the ability for all nations to stimulate their economies through domestic infrastructure and spending programs.<br>
● Protect the right of governments to choose the scope and level of public services to provide.<br>
● Protect intellectual property (IP) in a fair and balanced manner.<br>
● Protect the unique U.S. transportation regulatory and legal structure.<br>
● Protect the right of governments to secure the integrity and stability of their financial systems.<br>
● Be negotiated in an open, democratic and accountable manner.<br>
● Be flexible and responsive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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