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To: Eva
While I unhappily agree with your second paragraph, I fail to understand this: No, the buy American restriction will only ensure more government waste and inflated prices, trigger a trade war, and cause US companies to lose global contracts.

Not necessarily if the government keeps it's long nose out of the market and extends the phrase "buy American" to include foreign companies that have factories here in the states. I'm not too concerned about US companies losing global contracts because too many of them are doing business with our enemies! Inflation is always going to be present because money is debt. Sad fact of life ever since FDR took us off the gold standard. I guess I don't get the government waste part IF the government keeps it's nose out of the free market process. Of course our legal tender laws and THE FED have already entwined our society and governmental functions into a dirty meld with what has now become only a quasi market economy. But still, can you explain government waste in the light of a truly free economy (notwithstanding the machinations of the Central Banks)?

88 posted on 02/02/2009 9:48:22 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier

There is NO more American to buy. You don’t understand. The green idiots have driven all the manufacturing out of the country, except for the auto industry, which they are over regulating until no one wants to buy what they sell.

It’s the green nazis that are to blame for the off shoring. They regulated manufacturing until, when combined with union demands, it was unprofitable to manufacture anything in the US. In my county, the greens have driven out Georgia Pacific, they are driving out an aluminum smelter, they have driven out the loggers, the fishers (except for the Indians)and are working on killing off the dairy farms. You are blaming the wrong people for the economic problems.


89 posted on 02/02/2009 9:54:25 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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