Posted on 09/18/2009 9:09:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
CATO, you can buy chinese sh*t all you want. I’ll stick with US made
‘Buy American’ is nothing more than a political stunt designed to help politicians get re-elected. It doesn’t help create new jobs.
I understand it sounds great to say we want stimulus funds to buy stuff made by Americans. It’s simple to think we’ll get the most out of these funds by buying everything from American companies. But that logic is too simple.
The truth of the matter is we live in an interconnected world.
Right now, American companies manufacture products in China, Canada, Mexico, and many other places around the world. And foreign companies have manufacturing facilities in the US and employ American workers.
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week that points out just how bad the situation is.
The article points out cities are trying to put American workers back to work rebuilding our outdated sewage systems. But essential parts of these systems are built in Canada.
Thanks to the ‘Buy American’ provision, these projects are being delayed. The cities are being forced to seek an exemption from the provision. The result is American workers who could be working on these infrastructure products aren’t.
There aren’t any official statistics on how many projects are being delayed because they need foreign made parts. And there’s no list of how many exemptions have been sought.
But I can tell you only $13 billion of the stimulus funds have been paid out so far. And that’s a far cry from the amount of funds that are available. I don’t think its a leap to say stimulus funds are being delayed because of the ‘Buy American’ provision.
>> I’ll stick with US made
Good idea - try ‘n find it.
Have been doing so for years. That’s why I largely shop online. The WalMarts/Targets/Sears/HomeDepots are stocked with crap.
If you really believed that, you'd probably have to turn off the power to your home since you're indirectly paying for Chinese made power distribution equipment when you pay your electric bill.
You can’t. I bought a set made in the Phillipines. An ally, not a communist enemy.
What chinese made power distribution equipment. I’m a power engineer, and that is one area that US made still is dominant.
Exactly.
Why should Government be allowed to get between me and the people I want to buy stuff from? Unless of course it’s something evil like cigarettes or non-Union cars?
Before long, the effete traitors will have to move to their communist country of preference, and a little after that, no one on this planet will work high steel for them during lightning storms or stand in pools of water to do welding.
My shoes are 100% made in usa. My jeans are 100% made in usa. As is my bunkbed for my kids I just bought (could have saved $100 and got it from china), my new screwdriver set, the nice vase I bought my wife, the new light fixture for my gate, etc etc.
It takes some research, and some phone calls, but no more time than standing behind fat ladies in stretchy pants at walmart waiting to buy their chinese versions.
Why would they declare war on us when they can wage it silently while dumb****s in stretchy pants shop at walmart to help em build their war machine.
Having Americans suspicious of China is not a unusual idea.
Cato doesn’t make products. We can’t all work at think tanks, stupid.
Hehe, I’ll buy Chinese: http://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/actores/jet_li/fotos/49/jet_li.jpg
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