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    Obama Trade Policy Announcement Raises Questions

    By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:36pm |
    President Obama recently announced his new Trade Policy in which he promises to double exports in five years and to create two million jobs.

    It looks like a continuation of the globalization of our economy that gave us such stellar successes as NAFTA and CAFTA and other efforts to strengthen our domestic economy Wall Street.

    The news of this initiative raise a few questions, however:

    1.) Doubling exports in five years sounds highly ambitious given the success of exporting we have seen to date. Just how many jobs do we have left to export? Or do we now begin exporting workers to match them up with the jobs we've already exported?

    2.) Creation of two million jobs sounds like an admirable goal. But in which country do "we" propose to create these jobs?

    Just wunnerin', is all.