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.
"It’s all too obvious that America is under threat because its land borders are largely porous and unprotected. In response, last year Congress passed, and the President signed into law, legislation calling for the construction of 854 miles of border fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite this legislative mandate by the U.S. Congress, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced its intention to build only 370 miles of fencing along the border, not the 854 miles required by the legislation. The Kennedy-McCain Amnesty bill, also would cut the 854 miles of fence down to 370.
I wrote the border fence bill and it is not ambiguous. It is not a suggestion. It was passed and signed by the President. It is the law. It has been over six months since we passed that law and only 11 miles have been built. At that rate, it will take us 20 years to build it. If elected President, I will build all 854 miles in six months. In the meantime, it is still the law and the fact that only 11 miles have been built is unacceptable." - Congressman Duncan Hunter
Do you agree with Duncan Hunter that we should follow the law and build the entire 854 miles of border fence?
http://www.gohunter08.com/petition/
I had to throw this one in too:
Where's the fence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SDkhwnEIo Too funny!!
Only so far as to facilitate trade but no so far as to Mr. Hamilton's worthless suggestions which became Mr. Clay's 'American System'
but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate
The only time this would possibly apply is if we were at open war with another nation. We at war with China are we? We will be if we continue to erect barriers to trade with them. Thank God for Wal-Mart
ANd all during Reagan’s term we were very restrictive on trade with China as well. We did trade with them , but it was limited in scope and certainly had many technology restrictions.
I do have to concede that this statement gave me goosebumps not seen since the days of Reagan.
No, but they are at war with us.
I’ve signed the petition when it first went up. I encourage all to do the same.
Hunter is no Reagan, obviously. But the one thing he shares unequivocally with the Gipper is a profound love and respect of this country, much deeper than the average politician.
But yeah your idea sounds great, let's cut 'em off and isolate them. That'll work....I mean it's worked before and it only took 40+ years....
I am encouraging also!!
I wish his web site had a long list of his upcoming events. It is lacking information readily available to internet users.
It’s not a matter of cutting them off, it’s a matter of having them not cheat. They are worse than arabs when it comes to cheating.
Consider:
They pirate 95% of our software, shortchanging us many billions of dollars in trade.
They do not respect intellectual property of other sorts: Music, video games, patents, copyrights - depriving us of many more billions.
They steal our technology, whether its taking apart high tech equipment and figuring out how it works and building their own version w/o permission, or corporate espionage, as well as constant military espionage. Costing us billions more.
They have no compunction agianst putting out crap that they label as something else. Recent cases about dogfood, vitamin ingredients, and toothpaste are only the very tip of the iceberg. They are frauds.
They peg their currency to the dollar to keep it artificially low. Making their product appear artificailly low in the world market compared to ours.
They demand “offsets”. If you want to sell, say airplanes to China, you have to give them part of the manufacturing and the technology to manufacture.
They bribe constantly. While the US prohibits bribing they have use it with great effect.
They have allied themselves with our other enemies: Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.
They have stolen our nuclear secrets, not only to improve upon their crude technology, but to sell to Pakistan, Libya, and who knows who else.
They act with bellicosity towards our ally Taiwan. And threaten war if it does not return to the fold.
They have just been discovered to have been shipping tons small arms to Iraqi insurgents via Iran.
They vote against us almost always in the UN.
They persecute christians and political “dissidents” savagely.
They have an organ harvesting regimen for the world market.
They crushed Tibet and ethnically cleanse just like the USSR used to do.
They are arming to the teeth with new warships, sumbmarines, missiles, etc.
It goes on and on and on.
I’m sorry to rain on your parade, but with FDT you get more of the same globalism that is strangling our country today. FDT is lacing his campaign with Bushmen. His short career in the Senate was somewhat dismal.
With Duncan Hunter, as I’ve said so many times, you get what you see. An experienced and up to par man who has the vision, the record in Congress open to anyone to check out, and the very consistent conservative this country is starving for. He belongs to no man. He is dedicated to the survival of our sovereignty.
Dynamic and resourceful, Duncan Hunter is one The Man to lead us.
And yet none of these issues have anything to do with trade. How they handle their internal affairs, however abhorrent in our sense, should not affect trade issues. In fact as trade grows with them several of these issues will correct themselves as the Chinese are introduced to new ideas.
That is a distinct possibility, but only a possibility. China making allies with other enemies is not in our national interest, partucularly with the commie stooge in our hemisphere.
It’s Reagan’s PEACE through Strength. We must always be ready and willing and more powerful. Giving China a free ride to enrich itself is dicey at best. Play hardball. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. That is how one wins the game. Trade is a huge part of that game.
>I don’t see why it either has to be a matter being a globalist or protectionist.<
FDT has admitted his sympathy with globalism which, as I said earlier, is strangling this country. His voting record shows his softness on illegal immigrants.
Duncan Hunter should not be called a protectionist, as he often is by certain FReepers. Whatever is healthy for our country is what Duncan Hunter will strive for, as he has done for so many years past.
For the record, when Germany attacked France in WWII, France was its largest trading partner.
And, when Japan attacked the United States, we were their largest trading partner.
I wasn’t arguing for Fred, I was just saying the name-calling was useless.
“Building barriers to trade”
Your example being Japan. What in particular ushered the conflict between Japan and US? I’m referring to the initial casual reasons prior to pearl harbor.
You’ll find some of the reason to be barriers to trade. Not that there aren’t reasons to question our economic relations.
Yeah, I know.
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