McConnell Rejects Buy American Provision
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 am - by admin
Senator Mitch McConnell called for removal of the buy-American provision in the $819 billion bailout/stimulus package currently moving through the legislative system.
Kentucky’s Republican McConnell called the provision a “very bad idea,” a outlook shared by Canadian and other international trade partners within the steel and development industries worldwide. The Senate is expected to take up debate on this issue sometime this week - a controversial issue which likely only effects steelworkers outside of the country, but may negatively hurt the capital production within the U.S.
“I don’t think we ought to use a measure that is supposed to be timely, temporary and targeted to set off trade wars, when the entire world is experiencing a downturn in the economy. I think it’s a very bad idea. I think it’s a bad idea to put it in a bill like this, which is supposed to be about jump-starting the economy.” said the Senator to reports.
February 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Who are these wealthy ruling-class swindlers to tell us what is in our self interest? We have listened to these privileged spend-all-day-golfing good-old-boys long enough to know that we’ve been fooled by their free trade propaganda. And another thing, what exactly justifies the continued economic privilege of the Wall Street ruling class? At this point you can’t say they’ve earned it. Why do hard working people like my father have to face the prospect of working until the day they die because their retirement savings disappeared while these wealthy thieves make off with the fortunes they’ve socked away over the last decade? They need to be locked up with their assets sold. Ask yourselves this: Are we citizens or subjects?