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...projects receiving money from the federal government to “buy American,” using only American steel in the construction of roads and bridges. Thankfully, this provision did not make it into the final bill that was signed into law. But the “Buy American?? controversy is indicative of a turn toward a protectionist trade agenda, especially in the anti-immigrant lobbies of the Republican Party and the labor-union wing of the Democratic Party. This is a trend that should be combated at every turn, especially during a recession of this magnitude...
...Perhaps this explains how the ARRA now includes a “Buy American?? clause, which stipulates that all steel and manufactured goods produced with stimulus money will have to be made in America. The bill also makes it practically impossible for any company receiving federal funds to hire foreign labor, no matter how skilled...
...protectionism does not creep into measures to fight the global downturn only because of the haste with which they fly through legislatures. Even in the 21st century, there are people who actually believe that “Buy American?? clauses are a worthy cause. When asked by the New York Times if people would oppose protectionism, Senator Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) replied: “Who could be against it? Well, some Ivy League economists don’t like it—something about Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression...
Maybe we should all just stop eating American?...
...This is why the inauguration of Obama as the nation’s first half-white president was nothing to celebrate. One can only succeed as a black American??in politics or at your job—by submitting to majority authority and control. You can’t say you don’t want to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. You can’t suggest you were ever not proud of the country that murdered Indians with gifts infected by smallpox and that blew up little girls as they prayed.You certainly can?...