“We’ve got to stand up for unions,” Hillary Clinton declared in her closing statement during the Democratic debate in Milwaukee last month. The line offered the labor-friendly audience a comforting rebuke to Gov. Scott Walker’s relentless attacks on Wisconsin’s unions. It generated passionate applause. [Dan Kaufman| March 12, 2016 |The New York Times] But Mrs.…
Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday said he would rip up all existing free trade agreements if he wins the White House. [Vicki Needham| March 3, 2016 |The Hill] Trump argued that he would greatly improve U.S. relationships with nations such as Mexico and China while lowering trade deficits. “I’m going to rip up those trade…
LAURA INGRAHAM: I think when you look at the Michigan race, that dynamic with Hillary Clinton and the Trump win, probably pegs this back to more than personality, but back to the issue of trade. [Tim Hains| March 8, 2016 |Real Clear Politics] Remember when Mitt Romney lost Michigan, his home state, by more than…
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump held an afternoon campaign rally in Concord, North Carolina on Monday at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center, touting his recent endorsement from NASCAR and vowing to bring jobs back to the United States. [Alex Swoyer| March 7, 2016 |Breitbart] “NASCAR endorsed Trump, can you believe that?” the real estate mogul…
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 8 sent the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and a related bill to the Japanese Diet and expects to get approval before the Diet wraps up its session at the end of June, although it is hoping for action as early as late April, according to the…
In 2015, Ted Cruz was on with Jeff Kuhner and answered some tough questions about why he supports the TPP.One of the questions was specifically about what Jeff Sessions has been saying about the trade deal and Cruz blatantly said that what Sessions has been saying is not accurate. In short, he said that the…
On Thursday, Governor Mitt Romney gave an anti-Trump speech in which he called upon Republicans to vote for anybody but frontrunner Donald Trump so as to produce a brokered convention. Romney claimed that Trump’s economic plans would cause a recession. He said: [Howard Richard and Raymond Richard| March 8, 2016 | American Thinker] If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as…
Americans opposition to job-killing trade policies fueled the stunning Sanders upset victory in Michigan. But it also could be a deciding factor in the general election, especially with Donald Trump being the likely GOP nominee. The Michigan outcome shows the potency of the trade issues and foreshadows the trouble Hillary Clinton could face in Midwestern…
No Democratic presidential candidate had campaigned in Traverse City, Mich., in decades until Senator Bernie Sanders pulled up to the concert hall near the Sears store on Friday. Some 2,000 people mobbed him when he arrived, roaring in approval as he called the country’s trade policies, andHillary Clinton’s support for them, “disastrous.” [Patrick Healy & Yamiche Alcindor|…
Once in awhile you read a book that has such kernels of truth that they touch your soul. One such book is The Heart & Soul of Manufacturing by Bill Waddell that I just finished reading. The subtitle reveals the focus of his book: “How Lean Management aligns with the better angels of our nature…