[pissant]

Hunter: China is doing what [Fed Chairman] Ben Bernanke himself says they're doing, which is subsidizing their exports and companies through currency devaluation. That is cheating. That dis-serves all of the innovative effort, all of the streamlining and all of the capital investment that has been made in American products. There is no individual American business that can single-handedly compete against the Treasury of Communist China. The Republican position is not to appease communists. That is what we do when we allow them to continue that operation.

Hunter comes out swinging.

[pissant]

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"The second involved the well publicized Joint Direct Attack Munition in which a Swiss company refused to provide the crystals needed for the guidance system of the country's most important "smart" bomb"

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[airborne]

But that Arsenal of Democracy is in trouble, and that trouble is being caused largely by the shift of production overseas, particularly to China, and mostly by the large multinational companies that have controlled the trade agenda for the past 20 years. Those multinationals are now, in fact, "Chinese companies," doing the bidding of the Communist Chinese government in setting U.S. policy, which runs counter to the interest of U.S. workers, taxpayers and U.S.-based manufacturers, says Hunter.

If we aren't careful, we're going to outsource ourselves into chains!

[Last Dakotan]

Thanks for posting this. It sums up what I as an American manufacturer have to deal with.

Unless you have worked in the industry for 25 years, you have no idea how hollowed out the American industrial machine has become.

[omnivore]

We're handing manufacturing over to China in other ways also. Like excessive environmental regulations, lawsuit mania over harmless things, we're making our own obstacles and the Chinese are smart enough to take advantage where we screw up.

If you want to build a steel mill, are you going to spend years hassling with EPA, OSHA, similar state-level agencies, and local-level busybodies, before you can even break ground in the US? Or just go to China, maybe pay some bribes, but get the thing built and going relatively easily?

All I'm saying is, there are more than just economic-incentive reasons, why this is happening. Part of it is subsidies and screwing with currency exchange rates. But another part of it is just the accumulation of decades of counterproductive legislation and regulations that have been building up in America, and have finally reached the threshold where there are a lot of kinds of businesses that just can't start up here, and can barely stay alive at this point.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I've been saying this for a very long time. I'm glad to see at least ONE congressman saying the same thing.

Our Manufacturing capability going to ANY country overseas is NOT a good thing.

Militarily and security wise, it's insanity at best. It's stupidity at least.

[Sender]

There is protectionism, then there is reality, and then there is survival. Clearly we must make some changes now or soon even our food will come from China.

I like Chinese food, but that's different.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hunter tells it like it is. He gets my vote.

[Digger]

THIS MAN GETS IT!!!!

[Nephi]

Geez, Hunter sounds alot like Buchanan, but I have always been a loyal supporter of Buchanan. I didn't realize Hunter opposed the globalist trade deals. Impressive.

That is what business is, but our trade negotiators are bad businessmen.

No, they're good business men it's just that what is good for them is bad for the US. Sadly, many freepers are convinced that the constitution is really a customer agreement with Costco.

Hunter: They understand there is not an advantage to your factory closing where you were making $22 an hour and moving it to China. It's not a good enough answer when the guy stands up and says in the end you're going to go to heaven because Adam Smith wore a powdered wig in 1772 and said that this would all work to your advantage in the end.

The real world response to the "Buggy whip" canard.

Meanwhile, half of freerepublic.com is about to throw their collective support behind a guy who has more in common with the liberal Democrat party than the Republican party. Go figure.

[VictoryGal]

President.

Duncan.

Hunter.

Ask for it by name!

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I like it. Finally a conservative candidate shows up to the dance.

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