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.
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I like both Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. The two together would be my dream ticket.
The rejuvenation of Reaganism that has been losing sway since the Gipper retired is CRITICAL to our future.
So your dream ticket is Hunter - Thompson. A very Gonzo choice, to be sure.
Did you make that banner?
Thompson - Hunter would work as well. But after two terms of GWB, either would make me giddy!
Yes. Graphics aren’t my strength, so I had to make it simple. I really wanted to convert a WW2 propaganda poster over. But it really looked sloppy when I tried.
Speaking of making posters, Sam, can you get more pictures of your father on the Net? The pickings are really slim out there for making election material, virtual and printable.
Too bad I didn't hear about this earlier.
‘’A very Gonzo choice, to be sure.’’
Heh, heh.
Talk about Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail!
Hunter/Thompson or Thompson/Hunter is a good ticket but let’s not forget about Tom Tancredo (lifetime ACU rating 97.8).
There fixed that for you. Manufacturers are not in the business of guaranteeing jobs to employees. They whined and moaned for decades, using unions in some cases, for a 'fair' wage. Well they got it. And by doing so, priced their employer out of the market. Too bad.
“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.”
No Dunc, the American worker did that to themselves.
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.
Hmmm, good ol' fashioned tariffs. Yeah that works real well....
Thanks for the ping, CD. Looking forward to Hunter coming over to Raleigh...
You might want to read more on his positions and trust the chicoms a bit less.
Hunter wants to replace the current tax code with the Fair Tax, for starters.
He also want to eliminate all taxes on products manufactured for export.
He also want to force China to quit undervaluing their currency - which makes their products cheaper than market prices.
He’s not talking about resurrecting a tariff regime to improve things, but he is going to bust their balls for the cheating they consistently engage in.
I see the Globalists have crawled out again.
You missed the point about what Hunter was saying.....we no longer have the industries to make the products necessary for American defense.
Its nuts to rely on Communist Chine and others for materiel if we should ever go into a major war
Good points, pissant.
Hunter has raised some common-sense issues regarding trade with Commie China. As you pointed out...none involve a tarriff.
I like Hunter in that he is an Americanist and not a Globalist.
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.
.we no longer have the industries to make the products necessary for American defense.
Sure we do. Course we may not have the industries to keep supplying Wilsonian adventurism and supplication of troops in 170 countries. That's another thing that's changed in Dunc's 'five decades'.
Its nuts to rely on Communist Chine and others for materiel if we should ever go into a major war
But by gum we'll take loans from them to pay for our welfare state eh? We'll rely on them for money but not materials. Gotcha.
You protectionists do now how many wars start don't you? Building barriers to trade. This is fact
Yep. Ol Reagan started that war with the USSR over his refusal to have meaningful trade with the bear or its sattelites. Oh wait, he actually brought them to their knees.
“I like both Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. The two together would be my dream ticket.”
They don’t agree on illegal immigration. I can’t see them on the same ticket, at all.
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