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 There's no chance anyone would ever mistake you for a Democrat. And having Duncan Hunter as president would be the Cat's Meow. |
Posted on 06/18/2007 9:54:20 AM PDT by pissant
Lincolnton - U.S. Congressional representative and presidential candidate Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is visiting North Carolina today to campaign for tighter border security, high-paying textile jobs coming back to America and stronger military defense.
He’s planning on stopping at a hosiery mill in the Greensboro-Burlington area before going to Mooresville.
Hunter said part of his campaign is based on making other countries play by the rules of fair trade.
“One of the cornerstones of my campaign is bringing back high-paying manufacturing jobs to the U.S.,” said Hunter. “China is cheating, undercutting American products and sending jobs overseas.”
Part of playing fair relates to taxation. Hunter said American manufacturers are double taxed here in America while overseas competitors aren’t taxed when their goods are shipped to this country.
“They get their taxes refunded to them when they ship,” said Hunter, adding when products are shipped from America to overseas destinations, these products are taxed by the receiving country.
Hunter added that he’s worried America is also losing the once strong “arsenal of democracy” -- a term coined during the FDR administration -- which is manufacturing serving the military needs of the country in times of war.
He cited World War II as a prime example.
During the war, Ford Motor Company built a bomber aircraft every 60 minutes while Chrysler built tanks. The industrial base, said Hunter, made machinery and war material faster than anyone which helped America gain victory.
Things, however, have changed over the last five decades. According to Hunter, the arsenal isn’’t as strong as it should be.
“In a recent search for high grade armor steel plats for vehicles in Iraq, I could only find one company in America that could make that material,” said Hunter.
Besides campaigning to make other countries play by the rules of fair trade, Hunter said he wants immigrants to play by the rules when coming to this country.
“I wrote legislation that extended the San Diego fence through Texas,” said Hunter. “The House and Senate passed the law last October. Right now, the administration has built only 13 miles of one layer of the fence.”
The legislation called for 850-plus miles of fence; the Senate knocked the length of the fence in half.
“The Senate bill would leave New Mexico and Texas wide open to smuggling,” said Hunter. “There’s not a senator on the floor who can explain that one.”
Hunter added that President Bush has “the wrong position” on illegal immigration and border control.
“I support the President in many areas, but here he’s wrong,” said Hunter. “Amnesty would provoke a stampede of our borders by 12 million people who think they’re going to get in under the wire.”
Hunter added the people here now were told to stop coming after the first amnesty.
Hunter said as president, he would ensure America would have strong conventional forces, bring jobs back to America and fight against illegal aliens.
“America is due for a new sunrise of opportunity, faith and freedom,” said Hunter. “My commitment is to maintain peace through a strong military, bring back high paying manufacturing jobs by forcing compliance by China and I will further enforce U.S. borders by completing the border fence, ensuring people knock on the front door when they want to come in to our country.”
For more information on Duncan Hunter’s campaign, visit the Web site www.gohunter08.com.
Hunter...Talks the Talk AND Walks the Walk!!!
GO HUNTER!!
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Hunter Ping!
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isnt DUNCAN a Yo-YO ??
Go away troll bait.
“but let’s not forget about Tom Tancredo (lifetime ACU rating 97.8).”
Stick Tom over to Dept. of Homeland Security.
Rudy as AG.
Mitt at the U.N. or possibly State.
Huckabee at DSHS.
Just take McCain out back beat him with a hose.
I don’t see why it either has to be a matter being a globalist or protectionist.
There is a reasonable middle ground on the subject of trade/commerce.
| You Are 100% Republican |
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There's no chance anyone would ever mistake you for a Democrat. And having Duncan Hunter as president would be the Cat's Meow. |
I went here:
6:30-8:00pm Iredell Co. Republican Party FatBoy's BBQ Mooresville, NC. Good size crowd of local Republicans.
I was talking to his driver and sat at the only open table with him. Hunter walks up and say to us that he should sit over in the crowd. There were two seats and he looks at me and says come on over and sit. So I end up sitting next to him for dinner. I told him about the support at the Free Republic. He knew about us. And Hunter told me directly to thank everyone here for all the support. Jim, I was more than polite.
I was impressed with him. His speech had the same talking points filled with personal stories about his family and his life. He does connect in a strong personnal way live. I wish him all the best.
Pretty cool don't you think?
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Afronaut meets Hunter PING. You may have just sat for BBQ with the next POTUS.
It was hard to tell him that my real name was Afronaut, but I think think he understood.
Anyone else meet Hunter in person?
Huh? Your real name is afronaut?
I have not, but several California freepers have met him in the past.
COOL! I think he’s doing a fundraiser breakfast in CA this week too...
“LOL, because I’m not for Dunc’s Whig protectionism scheme (no matter how you package it), I’m now a ‘globalist’. Thanks, that’s a new one on me.”
Protectionism? He supports free trade with non-hostile countries. Letting China cheat on trade and use our money to build up their military is insane.
And it'll be up to Dunc to define who is currently hostile will it? Sorry but no sale. The best solution for peace is to follow Washington's advice in his Farewell Address
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing (with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them) conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.No favorites, no MFN status. Trade with all. By trade you open doors that would otherwise be closed
look a little closer to the words between your highlighted sentences.
Yep. We certainly traded with the Soviets. Trade for all!
...wait.
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