Here's a preview of President Obama's remarks today sent out by the campaign to various media folks:
Now, I understand my opponent has been running around Ohio claiming he’s going to roll up his sleeves and take the fight to China. But here’s the thing: his experience has been owning companies that were called ‘pioneers’ in the business of outsourcing jobs to countries like China. Pioneers! Ohio, you can’t stand up to China when all you’ve done is send them our jobs.
You can talk a good game, or you can play one – and my experience has been waking up every single day doing everything I can to give American workers a fair shot in the global economy. When other countries don’t play by the rules, we’ve done something about it. We’ve brought more trade cases against China in one term than the previous administration did in two – and we’ve won. When Governor Romney said stopping an unfair surge in Chinese tires would be bad for our workers, we did it anyway – and we got over 1,000 Americans back to work.
Earlier this year, I set up a new task force to aggressively go after unfair trade practices that harm our workers – and it’s already delivering. Two months ago, we moved to hold China accountable for unfair trade practices that harm American automakers. And today, my Administration is launching new action against China – this one against illegal subsidies that encourage companies to ship auto parts manufacturing jobs overseas. Those subsidies directly harm working men and women on the assembly line in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest. It’s not right; it’s against the rules; and we will not let it stand. American workers build better products than anyone. ‘Made in America’ means something. And when the playing field is level, America will always win.
quoted by Politico
Love it! Romney acts like a fair trade warrior, when he never has and never will be. Romney believes in free flow of capital so workers are impovrished and the investor class lights their cigars with 1000 bills. Give me a fucking break. There is no way that Romney will do anything about China. Wall Street would scream.
President Obama has done some things about unfair trade. He's not perfect, and I'm sure the AFL-CIO hopes he will do more, but the choice between Romney and Obama is stark. Romney lies about who he is and what he will do, and we know he'll screw workers in a Massachusetts minute. His entire career has been about exploiting workers to amass capital. President Obama has filed several actions against China and generally is on the side of working people.
Another reason to be fired up and ready to go!