SORRY, I SAY BUY AMERICAN

There is already talk that all the infrastructure projects will benefit outsiders and not Americans. As the government hands out contracts, most construction jobs, experts on the economy are already claiming will go to illegals happy to earn less than minimum wage. All this while corporations will profit handsomely. President Obama’s gutless and totally acquiescing response to other countries and interested parties that overseas suppliers should be given equal consideration just keeps us continuing the downward spiral to ruin; all supposedly in the name of practicing free trade. As far as I can see, the two losing countries and the ones that have lost the most to date in the name of free trade are Great Britain and the U.S.A. Every other country starting with China up or down whichever way you look at it has kept trade barriers in place that make it sometimes impossible for America to do business with them.

There are tons of examples. Go to France and see how many foreign brands of cars you see lining the streets – very few. Marks and Spencer, the venerable Macy’s of the U.K., ask them how well they are doing in China with importing their own label merchandise. Ask the long grain rice farmers of California how impossible it is to export their produce to Japan which is in short supply there. I could go on and on. The simple fact of the matter is every other country apart from the two great democracies just doesn’t practice what they preach. I am telling President Obama, mate, you are not President of the world, you are President of the United States of America. At the G 20 conference I don’t want to hear your rhetoric on how you want to save the world. Concentrate on saving America. For a welcome change, let the rest of the world look after itself.

Every dime that the administration is investing in kick starting our economy should stay inside America and even if we have to get chain gangs from the prison system to do jobs in hell holes of the country that no American might not want, then get them to work. I want to see Caterpillar earthmovers and no Komatsu’s, I want to see Kenworth trucks and no Volvo’s and every raw material/mineral/home made product that can found in America used. On top of this, we need to employ some honest Americans in high places for a change to oversee that every company involved in rebuilding America doesn’t do a “Halliburton” on us. One of the saddest things I have seen in my lifetime is how ripping off the government is now regarded by so many as fair game. So Mr. President in summary, practice some of the true integrity that you claim to possess and do the right thing for America first.

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