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	<title>USW Blog &#187; protectionism</title>
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		<title>Avoid Trade War? We&#8217;re Already In One!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/29/avoid-trade-war-were-already-in-one/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/29/avoid-trade-war-were-already-in-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever protectionists like myself demand that the U.S. government do something to stand up for America in global trade, we are shouted down with the stern admonition, &#8220;You&#8217;ll start a trade war.&#8221; I wish. The reality is that nobody in America is going to start a trade war, for the simple reason that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Protect Jobs, Communities, Economy, Democracy? What?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/09/dont-protect-jobs-communities-economy-democracy-what/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/09/dont-protect-jobs-communities-economy-democracy-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America&#8217;s Future The NY Times has an editorial on trade today, Keeping Protectionism at Bay. The editorial, written by well-paid New Yorkers living far from the devastated communities of the &#8220;rust belt,&#8221; explains down to us that it is a bad thing to &#8220;protect&#8221; our jobs and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Progressives Wanted to Win</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/09/if-progressives-wanted-to-win/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/09/if-progressives-wanted-to-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush tax cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research As we mark the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s birth, his most important legacy has gone largely overlooked. Reagan helped to put a caricature of politics at the center of the national debate, and it remains there to this day. In Reagan&#8217;s caricature, the central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Reasons for U.S. to Abandon Free-Trade Myth</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/30/six-reasons-for-u-s-to-abandon-free-trade-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/30/six-reasons-for-u-s-to-abandon-free-trade-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ricardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercantilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fletcher Adjunct fellow, U.S. Business &#38; Industry Council The price of living in the fantasy world of free-trade economics continues to rise for America. Failure to recognize the pitfalls will probably mean a continuing struggle to emerge from recession, as much U.S. domestic demand leaks abroad due to the trade deficit, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vanishing American Consumer and the Coming Trade War</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/10/the-vanishing-american-consumer-and-the-coming-trade-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/10/the-vanishing-american-consumer-and-the-coming-trade-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley President Obama has vowed to double U.S. exports within the next five years. That&#8217;s because exports are critical for rebooting the American economy. It&#8217;s clear American consumers can&#8217;t get the economy going on their own. They can&#8217;t restart the jobs machine. They&#8217;ve run out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating Free Trade vs. Protectionism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/28/debating-free-trade-vs-protectionism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/28/debating-free-trade-vs-protectionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tariff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[William BernsteinIan Fletcher   By William J. Bernstein author of  &#8220;A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World&#8221; and Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow at the San Francisco office of the U.S. Business and Industry Council   Playing with Fire William J. Bernstein &#8220;When goods are not allowed to cross borders, soldiers will.&#8221; &#8211;Frederic Bastiat How soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand U.S.-Made Tires</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/24/demand-u-s-made-tires/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/24/demand-u-s-made-tires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our screwy corporate-controlled media hasn&#8217;t even a keen sense of the obvious anymore.  But thanks to the USW International, I know to ask for tires made in the U.S. and am happy to report that our local Les Schwab carries Dean tires, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to purchase in the Spring when our snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steele Blasts Buy America for Being Too Weak, But GOP Opposed Buy America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/19/steele-blasts-buy-america-for-being-too-weak-but-gop-opposed-buy-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/19/steele-blasts-buy-america-for-being-too-weak-but-gop-opposed-buy-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Mike Elk Of Campaign for America’s Future GOP Chairman Michael Steele blasted the Obama administration in a fund-raising email earlier this week for allowing stimulus money designated for clean energy solutions to be spent on overseas companies. Which is interesting, because stimulus money going to overseas firms was the direct result of conservative opposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Will Be No Trade War</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/09/there-will-be-no-trade-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/09/there-will-be-no-trade-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China tire tariff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dorkings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Gilbert B. Kaplan Former Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Commerce If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings. A dorking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/30/obama-and-china-vandalism-or-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/30/obama-and-china-vandalism-or-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G-20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=1098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director Campaign for America’s Future &#8220;Vandalism&#8221; screams the cover of the Economist, depicting Obama leaving an ice pick in the tire of free trade. (No racial overtones there; after all, as the president explained, he was black before he was elected.) When the president imposed tariffs on Chinese tire imports, following [...]]]></description>
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