"Buy American"

[halfwaytree]

Could this protectionist clause in the U.S. stimulus plan be Obama's first big folly? I keep hearing that a similar policy served to do nothing more than to deepen the great depression back in the 1930s.

[Marilyn]

Re: "Buy American"

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Milo Man*</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Could this protectionist clause in the U.S. stimulus plan be Obama's first big folly? I keep hearing that a similar policy served to do nothing more than to deepen the great depression back in the 1930s. </div></div>

<span style="font-size: 14pt">You mean we still make stuff? </span>

[Magician]

Re: &quot;Buy American&quot;



Yuh seet doe.

The power adapter for my printer just stopped working. I turn it over, Made in China, naturally.

Mi just read that Airbus will be outsourcing various components of future aircraft to China. Lawd help us all if China get implicated into making Western aircraft.