It is time for a buy American bill.

[Chisox08]

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Dumbfuckistan) vetoed a bill that was passed by the Texas state Congress 145-0. That bill would have jobs to Texas.
The United States as a whole needs to pass a bill that states that everything that the government buys must be made in America by American companies that pays a living wage. The bill should also require that the states do the same. If we have to say it is a matter of national security, because if we can't manufacture our own goods we will be in a lot of trouble down the road. What will happen if India and Communist China decides to cut us off?
If anyone votes against it come the next time they are up for elections vote their asses out no matter what party they are in.

[A Little Weird]

1. +1 million n/t

[JeffHead]

2. There is one already. Passed in 1933. We just don't enforce it anymore.

The Buy American Act (BAA - 41 U.S.C. §§ 10a–10d) passed in 1933 by Congress and signed by President Hoover on his last full day in office (March 3, 1933),[1] required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made products in its purchases. Other pieces of Federal legislation extend similar requirements to third-party purchases that utilize Federal funds, such as highway and transit programs.

The Buy American Act is not to be confused with the very similarly named Buy America Act, which came into effect in 1983. The latter, a provision of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, is 49 U.S.C., section 5323 (j), and applies only to mass-transit-related procurements valued over US$100,000 and funded at least in part by federal grants.[2]
In certain government procurements, the requirement purchase may be waived if the domestic product is more expensive than an identical foreign-sourced product by a certain percentage, if the product is not available domestically in sufficient quantity or quality, or if doing so is in the public interest.

The President has the authority to waive the Buy American Act within the terms of a reciprocal agreement or otherwise in response to the provision of reciprocal treatment to U.S. producers. Under the 1979 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Government Procurement Code, the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) 1996 Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), the United States provides access to the government procurement of certain U.S. agencies for goods from the other parties to those agreements. However, the Buy American Act was excluded from the GPA's coverage.

[leftstreet]

3. LOL 'Communist China?' n/t

[Chisox08]

4. I put that in there for the righties that lurk on this website.

Maybe if the teabaggers see that all of the stuff that they buy is from China, and they often talk about their hatred of communism they wouldn't support our government buying from a country that says it communist.

[RB TexLa]

5. Yes, that would show everyone what good decent people we are.

"We ain't buying nothing from you. You're foreign, you ain't good enough for us."

[Chisox08]

6. Look when our middle class is going the way of the dinosaur

because companies packing up and sending jobs to other countries we have to do something to protect our national interest. Is it wrong to say if we are using our tax dollars that it go to helping our economy? Is it wrong to want a bridge made with American steel? Is it wrong to want to open up jobs for the millions of Americans that are either unemployed or underemployed? Other countries like France and Germany protect their workers by requiring that their government buys locally we can't we do the same.

[bluestate10]

7. You and each person that reads this thread need to make it a rule to buy

mainland USA made products. Until that happens, buy American bills will be meaningless political acts.

[Chisox08]

8. I try to buy American when ever I can.