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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 01:38 PM
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So, is a measure that demands that projects funded by the stimulus
package use American made products even if something cheaper from over seas is available good or bad for the country.

Already China and India are screaming about closed US markets.

But if we, I mean you and I, the US tax payers, are going in hock in order to get our economy going, shouldn't we keep as much of that money here in the US?

I think if a provision is inserted into the US Stimulus package would be the only segment of our Economy that would be hands off, the ministers in all these other markets that are, as if, engaged in Free Trade will ubderstand....

If we let everything out to the international "free market" then I would vote it down if I had a vote in Congress. That would diminish the effectiveness of th stimulus Package.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-09 01:55 PM
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1. Absolutely right...
After all, the stimulus package is supposed to help the American economy.

And what better way to help than to use products that are made here...

Some folks will scream protectionism, though...



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