Thursday, November 11, 2010

G20 Meeting Thursday--Nov 11 2010--Has Obama Already Caved In On Trade/USA Jobs?

News coming from Seoul Korea today doesn't bode well for Veterans who will eventually come back to the USA but will not be able to find any jobs.  From the texts, news releases, and leaks coming out of the G20 talks we can only believe that empty suit Obama will return to the United States with an empty market basket. One might wonder why Obama even makes a pretense of pushing the cause of American workers who are being displaced in their jobs as they were under the Bush global cabal by the restrictions placed on American products by Asian countries. One would wonder what "surprise" announcement that Obama will spring on us when he returns from Korea. I would think that his "big one" is going to be that after going on this week long trip, that he was unable to get any agreement on tariffs and trade with Korea, China, Japan, and India but that he and his trade puppet Ron Kirk (know of any recent break throughs on trade this weak toad has engineered) are hopeful that something will happen over the next two years. Compare that to President George H W Bush's trade envoy Carla Hill's record of negotiation of complex deals with India, Brazil, and Japan in the early 1990's.  We would hope that Obama returns from this weeklong trip victorious for the American worker in truly opening up Asian markets to American products, farm goods, etc. but we know from experience that in looking for progress on protecting the working and middle class he usually comes up lacking.
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