Although Mondelez, Nabisco’s parent company, was given $90 million in incentives from our government to remain in the United States, Oreo cookies will no longer be manufactured in Chicago. 600 jobs will be lost as Nabisco moves its plant to Salinas, Mexico.

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump have all exhibited anger about “America’s Cookie” no longer being made in America. Layoffs will begin on March 21^st.

“If a company like Nabisco outsources and ships jobs overseas, we’ll make you give back the tax breaks you receive here in America,” Clinton said during a speech at automotive supplier Detroit Manufacturing Systems last week.

“I don’t want their cookies made and sold there,” Trump. “I just don’t want it. It’s unfair to us. Chicago is losing this large plant. It’s going to another country.”

What both of them should have said is that all Americans should boycott Oreos, Fat-free Fig Newtons, and Ritz crackers, which will no longer be manufactured in Chicago.

Income inequality is a direct result of greedy corporations removing our best jobs from American soil. Tariffs should be reinstated on any item consumer’s purchase which was not manufactured inside America’s shores.

I hate it when Trump is right, but our trade deficit is unforgivable. Trade agreements have benefitted workers in other nations and American corporations, while the American people are suffering losses in their quality of life.

Our government has ‘sold the American people out.’ No one in Washington is protecting the working class. The middle class is diminishing, and the poverty level is rising.

Bernie Sanders is 100 percent correct; it’s time for a revolution. The American people must take our country back from the one-percent.

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By James Turnage

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