Byron Dorgan: “They want to export those vehicles around the world so very soon. Unless something changes, China will be exporting…”

“They want to export those vehicles around the world so very soon. Unless something changes, China will be exporting automobiles as Korea is doing. Does anyone think China wants to take American vehicles into China? No, no. What they want to do is accept the American marketplace as a sponge for all that they produce. I have spoken at great length on the Senate floor about the people who have lost their jobs in this country when their plants closed down. I talked about Pennsylvania House Furniture. In fact, I talked to the Governor of Pennsylvania about this. Pennsylvania House Furniture, the description of that for almost a century was using the finest Pennsylvania wood and producing high-end furniture, and when people bought Pennsylvania House furniture, they knew they were getting a real piece of furniture. Well, La-Z-Boy bought that furniture company. After a couple of years, La-Z-Boy decided, we want to produce that furniture in China. The Governor of Pennsylvania and others tried to put together a financing package to keep the jobs in Pennsylvania, to do everything to see if they can keep in this country the Pennsylvania House Furniture Company that had been around a century. The answer was no. La-Z-Boy said: Those jobs are going to China. Now what they do is ship the wood from Pennsylvania to China and pay the Chinese workers pennies on the hour to put the wood together in furniture and then send the furniture back to our country to be sold.…”