According to the Washington Post, Rangel and some other African-American congresspeople were pissed off at union opposition to the Africa free trade bill. That set them up to be not too impressed when labor started whining about lost jobs due to PNTR, which will probably not happen anyway. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Subject: Re: China
>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>>A number of Congressional Black Caucus
>>defections were based on a whole new round of tax breaks and other
>>subsidies for inner city areas agreed to by Clinton and the GOP
>>leadership, so they rangled a price for agreement.
>
>Rangel'd you mean?
>
>C'mon, you're not buying the Kemp approach, are you? Tax breaks for
>the likes of the Disney Store on 125th St in Harlem? Might be good
>for Rangel's buddies in the Harlem establishment, but as for your
>average resident of Lennox Ave, I'm very skeptical.
>
>Doug
>