While announcing new foreign aid initiatives, President Bush tied aid to policies which encourage free trade and political freedoms. During his speech to the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development, Bush said "By one estimate, a new global trade pact could lift 300 million lives out of poverty. When trade advances, there is no question about the fact that poverty retreats." He also noted that "Pouring money into a failed status quo does little to help the poor."
From this, can we assume that the recent steel tariffs were designed to keep steel workers poor?
