I Signed Sherrod Brown’s Petition

You can too at: http://www.sherrodbrown.com/

The petition is to pressure John Boehner to stop blocking a bi-partisan Senate bill that would deal with China’s currency manipulation. Read more in this Washington Post story.

And no, the world would not end if we played hard-ball with China. It didn’t end in 1985 when we did the same thing with Japan and Germany. In fact, you could probably make a case that the 1985 Plaza Accord was one of the pillars of the robust economic growth that we enjoyed during the late 1980s and Clinton years.

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