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Buy American

May 24, 2009 4:17 PM

The stimulus package includes a "buy American" clause that the steel and other U.S. industries lobbied hard for. However, U.S businesses that export overseas now fear foreign governments will retaliate.

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by Haze1953 May 26, 2009 10:54 AM EDT
Stahl sounds like a protectionist spokesperson for the Chinese.
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by Earthie48 May 26, 2009 9:26 AM EDT
Americans are STILL loosing their jobs by OVER HALF MILLION JOBS PER MONTH, now tell me, where is the PROTECTIONISM? I say Bullcrap!

If we continue to LOOSE jobs by the half million each month, where the heck will Americans have money to even buy the CHEAP TOXIC products China ships to our country?

America HAD Quality Control Standards, and the MAJOR reason Big Business wanted to do business off shore! Now, that the CEO's of Big Business, told China ANYTHING GOES, and shipped that crap back into America, hell has broken loose once again with Toxic Products, and we're wasting TIME and MONEY getting the Quality Controls back we once had!

I, for one am FED UP, with being AFRAID to buy almost anything today for FEAR of whats in the products we buy. EVERYTHING I pick up, I am SICK OF seeing MADE IN CHINA! The quality of the product SUCKS! It either doesn't last, or does not WORK!

PROTECTIONISM, I AM ALL FOR IT! Bring back our Manufacturing Plants, and QUALITY CONTROL LAWS!

The Bush Administration THREW ALL QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES out the window and ALLOWED Big Business and Big Oil to DESTROY and BANKRUPT our country!
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by quotelawrence May 25, 2009 11:26 PM EDT
this reporter is again using the fear of american protectionism as a suggestion that will doom a buy american policy, the only fact is that America is not manufacturing anything american cars are manufactured elsewhere, and caterpillar is a very small percentage of american jobs America should listen to this Eco, from the steel company America is at war and the people causing our demise are the immigrants that are sympathetic to their homeland rather than America, as an example go into any government building and see the ratio of minority having jobs, and in the private industry examine the buyers who either purchase american or go off shore, the majority of these positions are being held by minorities and not Americans, what I am saying is the person may have their citizenship papers but can't speak English, where is american pride, and how have lobbyist taken control of our country.
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by rlp911 May 25, 2009 7:36 PM EDT
I agree with the CEO of NUCOR when he says that free trade is a joke. There IS no free trade and we should require "equitable" trade or fair trade. When foreign countries have access to our market and compete against American companys the foreign companys should be forced to manfacture their products under the same rules our companys have to in order for it to be fair trade. The concern for the environment and workers rights under the EPA, NLRB, FLSA, and the FLRA are considerations that should be taken into account as well as government subsidies BEFORE any "Free Trade Agreement" is signed into law. We can't compete with these foreign companys who pollute the enviroment and pay wages far below what is the law here! It is not protectionism to demand fair trade.
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