Lansing Mayor Hammers Unfair Traders

by James Parks, Feb 9, 2009

Mayor Virg Bernero of Lansing, Mich., is telling it like it is. In a commentary on CNN,  Bernero takes on those pundits who claim the market and free trade will cure our economic ills. Here’s some of what the mayor says:

With all due respect, the free traders need to ask themselves a more fundamental question: How will Americans buy those goods when they don’t even have a paycheck that covers their mortgage, much less the college tuition for their children? 

Bernero says President Obama’s stimulus package is badly needed, but it is just a beginning.

There’s no question that we need this stimulus package. We need the reinvestment in America’s infrastructure and in the working people of this country. We need tax cuts delivered directly to the American worker.  We need education and retraining for the “green collar” jobs of the future.

But we need more than a short-term shot in the arm. We need a long-term strategy to rebuild the American economy that provides jobs and economic security to the millions of hard-working American families who have been sold down the river by unfair trade policies.

Click here to read Mayor Bernero’s full commentary.

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