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Yes, but only if governments, including the United States congress, take actions to protect consumers from products obtained from China that are not safe.

Corporate America has been on a long, lustful, blood-thirsty feeding frenzy for some time. Laws that exist to ensure the safety of goods manufactured in the United States are not applied evenly to goods from China. At the same time, budgets for government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration have been slashed. Bush cronies with close ties to the industries they are supposed to regulate have been installed in agency after agency, from the Food and Drug Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency. Corporate profits are at an all-time high because companies are buying cheap Chinese products and selling them at huge profits.

American consumers and voters need to wake up to the reality that our reliance on goods from countries like China is destroying our way of life. Union jobs with good wages and pensions are being replaced with low wage service jobs without benefits or any security. Good paying jobs are being eliminated and jobs sent overseas so CEO's can squeeze another stock option out of their company. How is any of this making our way of life better?

Everyone likes cheap goods, but Americans need to start paying attention to the real cost of such goods.

We have an election coming up, and I am voting for candidates (like Dennis Kucinich) who know that Nafta isn't working. We need to draft new trade agreements that benefit the people of the United States, not just the 2% who control the corporations.

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