Posted on 06/19/2018 1:47:40 PM PDT by bgill
everal lawmakers are hoping to change the way the U.S. government buys American flags. Under current law, any American flag purchased by the government must be at least 50 percent made in the USA. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and Maine Senator Susan Collins introduced the All-American Flag Act to change that. “American tax dollars should go to American-made products that support American jobs, especially when the product is a symbol of our nation,” Brown said. “By purchasing all-American flags, we honor our country while also supporting American manufacturers.” The legislation would require flags purchased by the government to be 100 percent made in the USA. Producers would also only be allowed to use American-made materials.
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Let’s buy them from Russia. Their economy could use the boost. Just check them out before using.
They’ll be made in America by illegal aliens
I guess that leaves us out here in California.
Quite pleased with Veterans Flag Depot, https://www.veteransflagdepot.com/
Because when I think flag waving patriotism, I think Sherrod Brown and Susan Collins.
I work for the military. Not much pisses me off more than knowing the flag I fly outside my office is made in China. Same thing happens at every US post office and Gov building.
It adds up.
Before WWII the US used to sell scrap steel to Japan. Sailors told dock workers straight up that Japan planned to turn that steel into guns and bullets and shoot them back at Americans. I see this funding of China as the same thing.
When my sister-in-law got her citizenship, they have her the papers and a flag. The flag had 2 extra rows of stars (11 extra stars). It was Malaysian made.
You can’t make this stuff up. While the world is spinning close to out of control. And President Trump battles the idiots in the ___________(fill in the blank Media, colleges, Democrats, FBI, etc), we have congress critters who believe a pressing issue is where we purchase our flags.
Being a capitalist the government should IMO be buying them from the cheapest source.
And in a couple years or so they'll say, "Made in North Korea."
First, as a side note to flags, I’m certainly not going to stop people from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (PoA). But consider that probably many patriots are unaware that the author of Pledge of Allegiance (United States), Francis Bellamy, was a socialist, the modern PoA arguably containing anti-state sovereignty wording.
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation [???] under God, indivisible [???], with liberty and justice for all."
"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves [emphasis added], and united as to everything respecting foreign nations." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.
In other words, the PoA arguably implies that the feds established the states, not vice-versa.
Also, it's no surprise that state power-ignoring FDR signed the federal flag code.
On the other hand, note that the congressional record shows that constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the federal government.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
The bottom line is that in order to help the sovereign states win their ongoing power struggle with the unconstitutionally big federal government, USA-made state / USA flags should at least be sold in the form of a reduced-size national flag embedded in the lower staff corner of a given state flag, appropriate flag edges at the staff end.
Insights welcome. Graphics-savvy FReepers are invited to volunteer samples.
I buy my Annin flags at Wal-Mart. Made in USA
This will bring the production back to America.
This is a good first step. There is a middle ground, which we face in manufacturing.
In between what we currently have (which is a totally, buy everything from elsewhere, mess), and what would be nice, which is to bring back production to America.
Actually I believe requiring production in the states, is a good step initially.
Don’t leave the market in the mixed-up middle ground. Bring production back to the US. Immediately.
Then you can relax the requirements, later. But bring it back to the US first.
My humble opinion.
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