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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: crockspot on February 04, 2009, 08:11:21 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3719357#3721745
Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Feb-02-09 01:52 PM
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Top Republican: Scrap 'buy American' stimulus clause
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Source: AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Senate should strip a "Buy American" clause from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the chamber's top Republican said Monday amid anger at the restriction from US allies.
"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," said Senator Mitch McConnell.
Asked whether he would support trying to strip the measure from what is now roughly an 888-billion-dollar economic stimulus package, the Republican minority leader told reporters: "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, yes."
The House of Representatives last week voted to require that public works projects funded by its 819-billion-dollar stimulus bill to use only US iron and steel. The Senate version extends that restriction to all manufactured goods.
McConnell's comments came as Canada Trade Minister Stockwell Day warned that US protectionism "can only trigger retaliatory action" as he urged Obama to fight the provision.
Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jNUP...
As one would expect, a huge raging bonfire erupts about how McConnell is a traitor to America, blah blah blah. A few Canadians try to talk some sense, but they are largely shouted down, until WAAAAAY down the thread:
totodeinhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Feb-03-09 08:32 PM
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177. Obama backs down on "Buy American" in the face of threats from EU.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/arti...
A C-130 full of fire retardant couldn't have done a better job.
:rotf:
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Threads like this make my smile for hours. :evillaugh:
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177. Obama backs down on "Buy American" in the face of threats from EU.
DUmmies, what do you expect from a prez who is more concerned about his Blackberry, and shooting hoops in the morning?
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:rotf:
they didn't see that coming?
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:rotf:
they didn't see that coming?
The primitives are notorious for not seeing something coming.
A classic case of this--although there's lots more--was when George Bush nominated Mukasy to be attorney general a couple of years ago.
The nomination was made, and everybody knew it was a done deal, especially since Charles "Joe McCarthy" Schumer (D-New York) had endorsed it, and then later Dianne Feinstein (D-California) had also endorsed it.
Everybody knew it was a done deal, excepting the primitives.
A couple of months later, Mukasy was confirmed--by a Democrat Senate, remember--and it was BIG news, a shocker, a stunner, to the primitives.
It came right out of the blue, to the primitives.
It was hilarious.
If one watches Skins's island often enough, he sees plenty of times a steamroller's already on top of the primitives, before the primitives even know it's there.
It's hilarious.
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nice, steamroller
:dozer: :bravo:
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:rotf:
they didn't see that coming?
Stevie Wonder saw that one coming.
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:badmood:
Dummie