Buy American Mention of the Week, 1-10-14 (Orders for Congress from 'We the People')

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/orders-for-congress-from-we-the-people/

Roger Simmermaker



Here’s something interesting you probably didn’t read in any 2013 year-end wrap-ups: Our U.S. government spent more than $1.5 billion of our U.S. tax dollars with foreign apparel producers in 2013 – so we could turn around and import clothes for U.S. forest rangers, airport security workers, and even for our troops on military bases.

And that’s just the beginning. Here are other ways our tax dollars were supporting foreign apparel markets, instead of supporting our own:

If you visited the Smithsonian Institution in 2013 and bought clothing, it was likely made in Thailand.

Cambodia made much of the clothing sold by the U.S. Army and Air Force.

If you work for the General Services Administration, you have Bangladesh workers to thank for your uniforms…they supplied many of them.

Haiti factory managers are looking forward to 2014 because they’re hoping to double the number of camouflage pants, shirts, and jackets destined for U.S. military bases.


FULL story at link.