President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.
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Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.
I support free trade, and so does Donald Trump.
Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.
I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.
Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
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