U.S. bans Chinese tires

President Obama imposed a heavy tariff on tires imported from China. This is at the request of the United Steel Workers who make tires in the U.S. President Obama is trying to appease his supporters, and attempting to keep the unemployment rate from rising.

Tires will now cost millions of consumers more money just to keep some high paid American factory workers employed.

China will retaliate and cause some loss of jobs in the production sector of the U.S.

Nothing will prohibit other countries from making cheaper tires for U.S. consumption.

The United Steel Workers union say they cannot compete against the cheap labor in China. They say the workers in China do not have rights and are slave laborers.

So what does the United Steel Workers propose to do? They propose to put those poor Chinese workers out of work. Out of work and with no unemployment insurance like the United Steel Workers have. Nor do the poor Chinese workers have Medicaid, and food stamps, and public housing, benefits available to an unemployed USW.

The American laborers are often lamenting the greed of American corporate executives. I see greed in the proposal of the United Steel Workers. The selfish United Steel Workers want to stick it to the American consumer and the poor Chinese workers. Greed affects the poor as well as the rich. Only the self actualized can avoid greed.

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