Inside DC| More...
 

Buy American

Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

Read Post

Hell No! We Won't Send Our Tax Dollars to China

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Keith Bradsher, European Union Chamber of Commerce, A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Washington D.C., U.S. Renewable Energy Group, Cielo Wind Power, Buy China, China, Manufacturing Policy, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Jorg Wuttke, Japan, Wind Turbine, Off-Shored, West Texas, South Korea, Buy American, Detroit Automakers, New York Times, Stimulus Act, Industrial Policy, Stimulus Bill, Shenyang, World News
Leo W. Gerard

China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.

Read Post

US Chamber of Commerce Hates "Buy America" Slogan

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Apple, Nike, Buy American, Tom Donahue, Union, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Ring of Fire, Climate Change, Business News
Mike Papantonio

The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.

Read Post

An Idiot's Guide to Tom Friedman's Idiocy

David Sirota | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Buy American, Tom Friedman, New York Times Op Ed, Media News
David Sirota

I don't mean that Friedman is wrong on everything. I mean that he's actually an extremely dim bulb in that he displays a stunning lack of basic cognitive function.

Read Post

"Buy American": U.S. And Canadian Companies Fight Over New Law

wsj.com | PETER FRITSCH and COREY BOLES | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Buy Canadian, Acquarius Technologies, Stimulus Packages, Us Canda Trade War, Buy American, Canada, Business News

WASHINGTON -- On paper, Tom Pokorsky would seem to be a clear beneficiary of the government's $787 billion economic-stimulus package. Mr. Pokorsky ...

Read Whole Story

Buy Local, Buy American

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Box Stores, Shopping, Buy American, Living News
Maria Rodale

I'm not against China, or globalism. But right now, America needs all the money we can give it. And we need to reward the very few Americans who are still making things here.

Read Post

We Are in Real Trouble

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Mexico, Jobs, Charlie Rangel, Trade, Buy American, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

President Obama and the Congress must enforce "Buy American" and our other trade laws if we are to save the economy. We are in a desperate circumstance.

Read Post

I Pledge to Buy a Made-in-US Car. If We All Buy American - and Obama and Congress Act - We Can Revive US Manufacturing

Roger Hickey | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Economic Stimulus, Green Jobs, Auto Industry, Economy, Fuel Efficiency, United Auto Workers, Buy American, Business News
Roger Hickey

I want Barack Obama's plan to save the industry and revive manufacturing to succeed -- so I'm stepping up to do a small thing: I pledge that my next car will be made in the good old USA.

Read Post

Can Chinese Condoms Stimulate the Economy?

Bret Caldwell | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Fired, Workers, Africa, Disease, Safe Sex, Us-Agency-for-International-Development, China, Teamsters, Condoms, Buy American, Unfair Trade, Foreign Goods, Business News
Bret Caldwell

Read Post

Obama's Panama Opportunity

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer-Electronics-Association, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Ron Kirk, Colombia Trade Agreement, Gary Shapiro, Exports, President Obama, Colombia, Protectionism, Barack Obama, International Trade, Summit of the Americas, Panama Trade Agreement, Buy American, Free Trade, Panama Canal, Panama, Stimulus Package, Business News
Gary Shapiro

President Barack Obama will soon be making his first trip to Latin America to attend the Summit of the Americas. This visit is an important opportunit...

Read Post

Isolationist Policies On The Rise Threatening A Global Trade War: World Bank

Washington Post | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Economy, Exports, World Bank, Free Trade, g20, Buy American, Trade War, Trade Wars, Imports, Trade, Isolationism, Fair Trade, Trade Barriers, Global Financial Crisis, World News

At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...

Read Whole Story

President Obama Sounds Like a Free Trader, So Why Are His Actions Contradicting His Words?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Colombia Free Trade, Ron Kirk, Free Trade, Gary Locke, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Protectionism, Buy American, Barack Obama, Gary Shapiro, Politics News
Gary Shapiro

Listening to President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, I did a double take. "The only way to fully restore Amer...

Read Post

"Buy American" Sounds Patriotic, But The Protectionist Policy Could Start A Trade War

Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, Obama Buy American, Buy American, Trade Wars, Obama Trade Policy, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Gary Shapiro, Oath of Office, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Perhaps too much time has passed since the fthe 1930s. The "Buy American" provisions are dangerous protectionist policies thinly guised as feel-good patriotism.

Read Post

Time to End the Inquisition against Buy America Advocates

Scott Paul | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Fair Trade, Free Trade, U.S. Manufacturing, Buy America, Buy American, Business News
Scott Paul

It's time to end the intolerant theocracy of free trade and usher in a responsible dialogue about what works and what doesn't work. Get out of the gutter and into the debate.

Read Post

"Buy American" Makes LIttle Sense When It Comes To Cars

Carpe Diem | Mark J. Perry | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Buy American Auto, Buy American Cars, Buy American, Carpe Diem, MJ Perry, Mark J. Perry, Business News

1. Here's a list of 8 "American-made" vehicles produced by American UAW workers, in American factories, but for foreign-based car companies. If you pu...

Read Whole Story

Globalization Is In Retreat: Adrian Hamilton

The Independent | Adrian Hamilton | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: The Independent, Economy, Davos, British Foreign Workers Protest, Adrian Hamilton, Globalization, Protectionism, Buy American, Trade War, World News

One by one the great and good of the land have stepped forward to pronounce on the wave of strikes over foreign workers and to condemn them. "Xenophob...

Read Whole Story

Senate Agrees To Water Down 'Buy American' Provisions

New York Times | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Buy American Provisions, Stimulus Bill, Obama Buy American, Buy American, Business News

The Senate, at the urging of White House officials, agreed Wednesday night to water down some of the "Buy America" provisions in its version of the $...

Read Whole Story

January Car Sales -- a Final Reckoning Begins in Earnest ?

Steve Parker | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Porsche, Scion, Automotive News, Chrysler, President Obama, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Fiat, Ford, Gmac, Buy American, Chevy Silverado, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Maybach, Stimulus Package, Hyundai, Hertz, Barbara Mikulski, Toyota, Detroit Three, Chevy Malibu, Lexus, Mexico, Xerox, Smart Car, Automotive Fleet, Subaru, Daimler, Japan, Europe, China, Business News
Steve Parker

Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.

Read Post

EU Warns Obama Over Stimulus

Times Online | Rory Watson, Brussels | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Buy America, Obama Stimulus, John Bruton, Obama Protectionism, European Union, European Union Obama Stimulus, Buy American, Barack Obama, Obama Trade, Europe Obama, European Union Buy America, Europe, World News

The European Union warned the United States today that attempts to enshrine "Buy America" conditions in the country's economic rescue package could fu...

Read Whole Story

Ryan Grim

Dem Senator Blasts Post: 'Absolutely Absurd'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Byron Dorgan, Dorgan Washington Post, Stimulus Plan, Dorgan Wapo, Buy American, Politics News

Byron Dorgan, a member of the Senate Democratic leadership, blasted the Washington Post editorial board as "absolutely absurd" Thursday for its object...

Read Whole Story

Simple Solutions for 2009

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza Strip War, Peace on Earth, Saving Planet Earth and Humanity, Buy American, Saving the National Economy, Obama's Cabinet, Peak Oil, Obama Transition, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Auto Bailout, The Biomethanol Economy, Isreael-Hamas, Chevy Volt, G8 Naitons Summit, Automakers Bailout, Biofuels, Gas Tax, Obama Administration, Green Energy, Recession, PO/GW, Obama Environment, Gaza Strip, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Biomethanol, G8 Nations, Detroit Bailout, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

By now you have no doubt read a dozen reviews of 2008 and projections for 2009, all pure guesses for the latter, unless someone was carefully predicti...

Read Post

Wall-E, Eve and Barack

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: T.Boone Pickens, Eve, Obama Transition, Wall-E, Barack Obama, Buy American, Alternative Energy, Obama Green, Environment, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

So what's the simple solution? Certain magnificent obsessions can best become reality if the U.S. Senate convenes in 2009 with 60 senators, meaning no filibuster.

Read Post

Buy American, Again

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Buy American Act of 1933, Economy, Detroit Crisis, Buy American, US Auto Industry, Buy American Act of 2009, Barack Obama Financial Crisis, GM Bankruptcy, New Deal, President Obama, Obama Administration, Fdr New Deal, Obama White House, Obama Financial Policy, General Motors, Financial Crisis, Auto Industry, President Elect Obama, Great Depression, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

When the second economic stimulus package is passed, the President should suggest that, as an act of loyalty to country, those planning to use this gift as down payment for a car, Buy American.

Read Post