Obama should make China comply with trade laws
Why, when China has recently been found guilty by the U.S. International Trade Commission of dumping auto tires into this country, imported at a rate beyond market demand and below the importer’s manufacturing costs, should President Obama sidestep penalties? The…
Thanks for the training funds, but we’d rather have the jobs
I have to give credit to local UAW leaders Shield and Ackerman for expressing their anger and dissappoint to Car Czar Montgomery and Senator McCaskill. While not the biggest supporter of unions and believe that they share in the blame of Amercian car companies…
Congress and Chrysler forge a moral dilemma for car buyers
After receiving billions from taxpayers to save them from bankruptcy and prevent the loss of thousands of American jobs, Chrysler has downsized and reorganized under court supervised bankruptcy anyway. In doing so, they have closed many major manufacturing plants, severed…
About as un-American as you can get
Maybe Fidel won’t live to see this ‘normalized’ future
If the United States and Cuba normalized relations, there would be terrible consequences: for Cuba.
Since healthcare is free in Cuba, some 40 million Americans, both legal and illegal, might board small boats in a reverse Mariel boatlift, and head 90…
All we ask: Enforce existing trade laws
Whipping up patriotic-led protectionism was not the purpose of the rally organized by the United Steelworkers in Granite City on Tuesday, April 7. Enforcement of existing trade laws that makes domestic steelmakers very competitive in a global market was the…
We are subsidizing our own economic takeover
We are subsidizing our own economic takeover.
Let me give you a simple example. In college during a business class, in a church basement in Kirkwood on a Saturday our class gathered to play a game. About ten of us formed…
The costs of greed are many
Americans have had our wages stagnated for 25+ years now. We have been able to get by, in great part, by the cheap products that have been imported from the developing countries around the world. We have gotten to reap…
Don’t blame foreign car makers for our problem
No offense intended to the Generation that lived the great depression and fought WWII. My parents fall into that category. Having been born in the late 50’s I cannot imagine what the depression age went through. I can remember my…

