Jeff Fortenberry: “That is an impact on us, but it is one we are going to have to live with because we have done it to ourselves. There are…”

“That is an impact on us, but it is one we are going to have to live with because we have done it to ourselves. There are a couple of lessons here: fair trade, mutual respect, smart trade, both people benefit. Secondly, America's businesses will not get this public subsidy from us any longer through unfair trade practices that we allow. The third lesson is: an honest confrontation about what debt really is. It is a hidden form of taxes, shifting the wealth assets of this country elsewhere into places like China, which we are complaining about are not using those assets in a way that we would like to see in a productive manner. There is lots of blame to go around here, but I want to thank the gentleman for the opportunity to at least start to unpack this in an honest way.”