From a statement by John Edwards to the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign:
And our trade deals must include prohibitions against illegal subsidies and currency manipulation and other trade cheating of the sort that is in fact encouraged under most of our current arrangements, to the detriment of American farmers, workers and firms.
On the other hand:
When I am president, I will use government resources to provide legal inducements to those corporations, domestic and foreign, that want to provide good jobs to Americans so they can sell their goods into the biggest, most advanced market in the world for their goods.
So, knock off those "illegal subsidies," but "government resources" and "legal inducements" are apparently OK. It's a fine line, I guess.
Other Democratic candidates' statements to the Fair Trade Campaign are here: http://www.iowafairtrade.org/candidates.php
(HT to Eyes on Trade)
