Tempest in a teapot. The vast majority of our clothes are made overseas. They are also trying to pin this on Romney since during his tenure as head of the Winter Olympics the US uniforms came from Canada.
What people should be concerned about is the $1 trillion dollars we owe to China. And the real question that needs to be asked about outsourcing is this: Why are American firms sending their factories and jobs abroad?
The business climate in the US is driving companies and jobs from this country. Overbearing regulations, the environmental Nazis, raising the minimum wage, high corporate taxes, the high costs of repatriation of profits from abroad, etc. are killing us.
Romney needs to ask this question of Obama. And reiterate that one way to attract businesses back to the use is cheap, plentiful, domestic energy, the lifeblood of any economy. Obama should stop blaming businesses for outsourcing and find out why they are leaving. He is attacking the symptom, not the cause. This is a big, fat pitch down the middle of the plate for Romney. Batter up.
Well said.
But it would be one more negative step if the President who doesn’t appropriately salute the flag managed to send our Olympic team to London without some sort of symbol of their country.