Should There Be More ‘Made In America’ Policies?
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2012/08/03 21:00:00
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Finally! Something we can all agree on! A recent survey shows that both Democrats and Republicans agree that there should be more "Buy America" policies instilled by the U.S. government.
In fact, an "overwhelming majority" said that they would even support something from the government that mandated that taxpayer money be used on goods that are made in the U.S. Do you think there should be more "Made in America" policies instilled by the government? Or should individuals have the utmost freedom to buy whatever they want to buy... even if it ends up hurting their country's economy?
ABCNEWS.GO.COM reports:
In fact, an "overwhelming majority" said that they would even support something from the government that mandated that taxpayer money be used on goods that are made in the U.S. Do you think there should be more "Made in America" policies instilled by the government? Or should individuals have the utmost freedom to buy whatever they want to buy... even if it ends up hurting their country's economy?
ABCNEWS.GO.COM reports:
While President Obama and Mitt Romney bicker over whose policies will send more jobs overseas, there is one side of the job creation coin that both candidates agree on: that the government should do its darndest to keep manufacturing jobs in America.
Unlike many of the job proposals both candidates are pushing, “Buy America” policies that encourage the government to buy products that are made in the U.S. whenever possible are hugely popular across party lines, according to a national survey commissioned by the Alliance for American Manufacturing and the United Steelworkers.
Read More: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/made-...
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Hula girl - Friends not Fol... 2012/08/04 05:05:35No
+16There needs to be a lot less policies so manufacturers can come back and be made in America again....not more.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!...
ANOTHER REASON BUSINESSES ARE NOT HIRING.
I live in THE U.S.A. I am proud of the skilled craftsmen and laborers we have. I am disgusted by the companies that get a tax exemption for the cost of moving jobs overseas. I am sick of hearing them blame the regulations that protect me and you from living in 3rd world conditions. I am appalled by the amount of money the elite of this country keep in foreign accounts just to avoid paying 15% capital gains taxes on money they don't even need.
We used to aspire to intelligence, not belittle it or let it make us feel inferior. We used to wage wars on poverty, not poor people. We used to be the home of the brave. Now, we scare so easily.
I am an American, and I know that we have the capability of making this nation the best nation in the world again. I will not settle for anything less, and I will not compromise the progress we have made so far, just to line the pockets of those who already have everything.
We need to make incentives for doing what is right. We need to bring jobs back to this country so that we can have more producers. We need to make incentives for education so that we can supply the engineers, scientist, and technicians who would support that produc...
I live in THE U.S.A. I am proud of the skilled craftsmen and laborers we have. I am disgusted by the companies that get a tax exemption for the cost of moving jobs overseas. I am sick of hearing them blame the regulations that protect me and you from living in 3rd world conditions. I am appalled by the amount of money the elite of this country keep in foreign accounts just to avoid paying 15% capital gains taxes on money they don't even need.
We used to aspire to intelligence, not belittle it or let it make us feel inferior. We used to wage wars on poverty, not poor people. We used to be the home of the brave. Now, we scare so easily.
I am an American, and I know that we have the capability of making this nation the best nation in the world again. I will not settle for anything less, and I will not compromise the progress we have made so far, just to line the pockets of those who already have everything.
We need to make incentives for doing what is right. We need to bring jobs back to this country so that we can have more producers. We need to make incentives for education so that we can supply the engineers, scientist, and technicians who would support that productivity. We need to give those that are the least of us the OPPORTUNITY to become the best of us instead of tearing them down with insurmountable barriers of cost.
What part of this seems to need less of anything?
Slave Labor? Check your license plate.
We should instill a pro-USA culture so that people voluntarily become US biased and make US businesses competitive so we make the best products at competitive prices.
So how about we dont have a completly Pro-usa culture and have it slightly golbalized.
We shall stand separated in names and policies but we shall be united as a species in a perfect world in my eyes.
Hitler took supremacy of the State to the extreme degree of doing away with all individual freedom. He nationalized everything and controlled all industries through a centralized, autocratic government.
Government needs to get out of the way of business. We aren't robots, we're human beings. Human beings will only tolerate abuse for so long. THEY built their business, not government. THEY don't need government, government needs THEM.
We have fascism in the USA and it's not the right.
Liberals are modern fascists. Read the definition...it is another version of totalitarianism.
American conservatism was born by limiting the power of government.
Left wing politicians are violating the 1st amendment, not righties.
Conservatism was born from the preservation of ideologies that worked in the past but cannot keep up in an constantly changing world. America is seriously lagging behind because of this.
Liberalism came before conservatism. The liberalism of today will be the conservatism of tomorrow. It's a neverending cycle. We see this now with the increasing number of gay right supporters, when 30 years ago, America was decently anti-gay. There was a time in the 1900s where this country was proud to call itself progressive, and the people equally prideful. This was when America became the richest nation in the world, even though it wasn't even 150 years old. When people were put before profit to the point that Standard Oil was broken up into 30 different companies to protect citizens from rising prices. It's time to do it again, but this time, with banks. It's time to restore Glass-Steagall, and break up the ones that are too big to fail. They're a liability to the American taxpayer, and it is not our responsibility to bailout companies that made risky decisions that inevtiably cost America trillions of dollars and millions of jobs.
Big government nanny state socialism is exactly what the Founders were worried about.
If they were alive today they would fix bayonets and charge the Democrat party.
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