Posted on 06/30/2017 10:43:16 AM PDT by Oatka
President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing an executive order that will require all U.S. food aid to be transported on American ships, according to four sources with knowledge of the deliberations.
Currently, 50 percent of such aid must be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels. The sources said Trump is considering going as far as doubling that to 100 percent, a move likely to stir opposition from both Republicans and Democrats.
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What ever happened to "Give a man a fish . . ."
Good, we have lost our commercial fleet. They’ve all reflagged under different countries. It’s time we start rebuilding it.
MAGA!!!
Neither this OR the current 50% minimum is a good deal for the US.
A total opposite of free market capitalism. I strongly disapprove.
Hopefully, someone can get through to POTUS before this EO goes into effect.
Maybe they know more than we do about the EO...
[Supporters say Trump’s initiative would not only create new U.S. jobs in the shipping industry but that U.S.-controlled food shipments are important for national security because the U.S. fleet could be transferred to the military in case of a conflict.]
Tell me again why socialist governments that have destroyed their agriculture industries need us to give them free food to cover for their incompetence.
Trump reads my ideas on FR:)
Finally a President.
Bet TRUMP is a Freeper....
And the dims ran a candidate in Georgia who campaigned on eliminating wasteful spending.
If we can't cut this then what can be cut?
this has nothing to do with free trade. This is american goods being donated to regions suffering food shortages. Needless to say, even free means big bucks for somebody.
Follow the money I’m sure it will lead back to a cabal of Progressives abusing the current law.
At the end of WW II we had the worlds largest and best merchant marine today we have one of the smallest due to massive taxation and regulation.
Massive taxation, regulation, union rules? Nah too obvious. It’s those evil haterz at Food for the Poor shipping donations to Haiti on foreign carriers just out of pure mean hate!
this has nothing to do with free trade. This is american goods being donated to regions suffering food shortages. Needless to say, even free means big bucks for somebody.
Follow the money I’m sure it will lead back to a cabal of Progressives abusing the current law.
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I wasn’t talking about free trade. I know what USAID is.
Agreed with your last statement.
Yeah,he and some of his people probably at least read the comments. You get a good idea what Conservatives are thinking and what we want. That’s what I do.
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