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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.

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