{"id":7812,"date":"2012-05-19T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2012-05-19T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T19:37:12","slug":"obama-puts-tariff-on-chinese-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/19\/obama-puts-tariff-on-chinese-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Puts Tariff on Chinese Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time now I have called for government to crack down on illegal trade practices overseas, in which US 1% Vulture Capitalists, have colluded with foreign governments to ship US workers\u2019 jobs overseas to increase their profit margins.  Wal-Fart is notorious for this.  Republicans may talk tough on trade, but they never do anything, because they represent the 1%, not you and me.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"19panels\"Which is better for an economy: millions of future jobs and trillions of future dollars, or a few people making a quick buck today by selling out their country? For decades America’s 1 percent-backed conservatives have chosen the latter course, and we can see the results all around us<\/strong>. Now the Obama administration has imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese solar panels because China was "dumping" — selling below cost — to drive American manufacturers out of business. Will conservatives support their country and our companies or will they continue to side with our country’s competitors?<\/font><\/p>\n

U.S. Imposes Stiff Tariffs<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The Commerce Department yesterday concluded that Chinese solar panel companies are "dumping" product<\/strong> — selling below the cost of production — into the U.S. market, and imposed stiff tariffs. According to the New York Times<\/em><\/span>‘ "U.S. Slaps High Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels"<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

The United States on Thursday announced the imposition of antidumping tariffs of more than 31 percent on solar panels from China. <\/font><\/p>\n

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… The antidumping decision is among the biggest in American history<\/strong>, covering one of the largest and fastest-growing categories of imports from China, the world’s largest exporter.<\/font><\/p>\n

Industry of the Future<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Again and again technology revolutions come along and disrupt economies. Countries that jump on new technologies are the countries that win the industries and jobs and revenue. This is how the United States became the world power that it is was. Railroads, steel, automobiles, airplanes, electronics, semiconductors, computers, the Internet, pharmaceuticals, biotech and software are a few examples. And in every case our government helped these new industries get off the ground<\/strong>. When these industries took root the payoff was enormous. <\/font><\/p>\n

Green energy is one such technology of the future<\/a><\/font>. Producing solar panels, wind turbines, etc. will bring millions and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars, and several countries are competing to win a share of this new industry\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em><\/span>] <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz covered the story with Sherrod Brown (D-OH)<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

While Obama is fighting for a fair breaks for Americans, Republicans are holding up bills that would help stop losing US jobs to unfair trade practices. Of course, from his Bain Capital days, Switch Hit Mitt is no stranger to exporting US workers’ jobs to China.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a long time now I have called for government to crack down on illegal trade practices overseas, in which US 1% Vulture Capitalists, have colluded with foreign governments to ship US workers\u2019 jobs overseas to increase their profit margins.  Wal-Fart is notorious for this.  Republicans may talk tough on trade, but they never do […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}