(From the diaries - promoted by matt)
You wouldn't think this would be a time when a candidate for Congress would call attention to his own efforts for free trade, but Dave Camp did in a little blue letter I received yesterday.
The letter highlighted Dave's role in fighting for worker pensions, and also increasing the deductible teachers can take for classroom supplies (up a whopping $150 a year ... it'll help defray the rising costs of health care teachers are increasingly expected to share).
Well, heck, here it is (something for the Republican junkmail repository):
The letter also mentions Dave's efforts to create a free trade prosecutor to make sure that other countries obey free trade laws. Dave says Michigan workers can compete with anyone in the world.
Of course, scrape away the pablum, and you're still left with this reality:
Free trade doesn't reward quality workmanship, but the ability of a corporation to turn a better profit. If that means leaving Michigan's highly trained and motivated workforce to find jobs flipping burgers, and moving the factory to a country where workers earn much lower wages, and where the company doesn't have to offer health care benefits, and that don't have a bunch of sticky environmental rules ... sayanora, Michigan.
Thanks Dave, for your efforts on behalf of free trade. Thanks.
One final note -- in five years of living in Dave Camp's district, this is the first time I've heard from him. His lack of engagement with the citizens of his district might have something to do with the warm, loving greetings he sometimes gets when he parachutes in (ahh, those angry radical moonbat Gratiot County seniors...). |
