Free trade, my butt!

[dtothelux]

Barry has given one more plumb to organized labor at our expense. While I don't think much of the regime in China, it is the American consumer who once again will suffer and be punished. I need a new set of tires before winter. I wish I had seen this coming.

finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/107724/tariff-on-tires-to-cost-consumers.html

[colonelbuckrobely]

Mrs. Robely needs two tires and I need four. What is wrong with allowing the free market determine prices and create competition? I think you nailed it. Barry is so beholden to unions that this is nothing more than pay back for their support.

[hasset]

China gets to make our light bulbs too.

www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337473898855730

America's Dim Bulbs

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:20 PM PT

After all the warning about mercury in fish, why does our government promote those stupid "green" bulbs? I doubt that anyone will bother to take a burned out mercury filled bulb to a special disposal plant but they would rather throw it in the trash so the land fill can be full of mercury that may cause autism in children. China is getting the "green" jobs of making those things so they will also have the most health problems from Mercury. I think we had better be like the Germans and stock pile the old fashioned bulbs. I am going to the store tomorrow! Maybe we can be like the Germans and have a black market for good, old fashioned light bulbs like everyone would rather have.