Thursday, January 29, 2009

Keep The Money Here

So $800 Billion, 647 some pages, and what do we know. We are going to give soemone gobs of money to do with as they please. Print a report in China for next to nothing and charge Uncle Sam (me) more money than I will make in 100 lifetimes. I think not.
What we need is an executive decree from President Obama stipulating as such: To qualify for funds under the economic stimulus program: All goods, services, products, products components, manufacture and supply chain equipment must be sourced on American soil, utilizing American resources, American citizen labor, manufactured in American plants (can be owned by anyone I don't care), or there will be no money allocated. Receipts must be presented notating all sourcing, W-2 statements for all employees as well as proof of citizenship.Nothing, I mean nothing, that the United States Government purchases can be sourced anywhere outside the borders of the United States of America.
Now the rest of us private types, or citizens, we can buy stuff made anywhere in the world if we so choose, but the government that we support must purchase American made, American sourced, and citizen labored. Believe me, to get a piece of an $800 Billion pie even the greediest of our corporations (no matter where headquartered) will open a mothballed plant rather than lose a government contract of this magnitude. Go ahead, give it a try, I'll bet the private business owners will put their hands back in their pockets rather than have to play by these kinds of rules.

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