smirk delivers "stunning blow" to american steel pipe workers

[donsu]

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/ns01032006.cfm

President George W. Bush turned his back on several thousand U.S. workers who make steel pipes when he refused Dec. 30 to place limits on Chinese-made steel pipe imports flooding the U.S. market.

“Our pipe workers and their families were delivered a stunning blow by President Bush in his refusal to enforce America’s trade laws following our government’s own investigation that showed China’s imports are unfairly surging into the U.S. market. It’s clear that President Bush has told American workers that he’s not on their side when it comes to advocating a message of fair trade with China,” says USW International Union President Leo W. Gerard.

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In August, they filed what is called a Section 421 petition asking the Bush administration to curb the Chinese pipe imports. Such a petition allows businesses or other groups harmed by imports from nations that engage in unfair trade practices to ask the federal government to limit imports of the products.

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In October, an ITC report found the Chinese pipe imports threaten the U.S. domestic industry and in a 4-to-2 vote, the ITC recommended Bush approve the Section 421 petition and impose import limits.
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the noise of america being crumbled is louder every day

[gratuitous]

1. Well, what did anyone expect?

If the choice is between the rights and well-being of an American worker and servicing the needs of his Chinese creditors and his fatcat friends, where do you think Bush is going to come down? I sure hope none of the workers who are about to lose their jobs did anything during the 2004 election that they now regret.

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[madfloridian]

6. You mean like us?

You mean like the people of this country?

[Kolesar]

8. Save our fight with China for the inevitable energy wars, then

Like Ukraine and Russia are playing out right now. Bush can say there's some WMDs in the Spratley Islands. That always works.

[tkmorris]

10. Well, you live in China

I won't pretend to have examined this in detail, but it is certainly symptomatic of larger policy wherein cheap goods from China are considered to be desirable, but at the expense of jobs here in the US. Such a decision benefits corporations here in the US, while simultaneously harming the workers.

We have seen quite enough of this economic philosophy.

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[donsu]

11. are you an american?

nt

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[David__77]

3. That is the right decision.

The U.S. has no right to penalize Chinese people through trade restrictions while it coerces others to open themselves to U.S. imports with no restrictions.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. But I bet those unemployed workers can still "have a beer" with Buxh

I get mad everytime some lunchbucket republican shows ANY support or sympathy for this contemptible enemy of the working class.

When will voters wake up and realize they made a grave error in judgment last November? Buxh doesn't just ignore the working man, he goes out of his way to hurt them.

I know the greatest majority of those who punch a time clock didn't vote for him, but we all know some that did. In fact there's a whole community of them on Free Repub. They should receive benefits for mental handicaps.

This kind of thing just whizzes me off.

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[Kolesar]

7. this is going to f! up Mike Dewine's Senate run

I think that Bush's steel tariffs helped him win Ohio in 2004. We shall see.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Apparently, Communism is just fine as long as it means lower

prices for manufactured goods.

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[Lone_Wolf]

15. One effective way to break up a union

*'s doing it for a reason.