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Here is my semi-ignorant take on "Buy American". For consumers there should be no buy American requirement. People should be free to buy what they want. There should be no "Buy American" requirement on businesses. Businesses should be able to buy what ever products they want. Government entities should buy American whenever possible.
When it comes to stimulus funding I believe the buy American clause is a good idea. The point of stimulus money is to stimulate the American economy. I do not see a problem with requiring the government or businesses that receive stimulus money to buy American with any stimulus money they spend. The requirement should not extend beyond the stimulus money they receive.
Buy buying American we are ensuring that money is going directly to the US and not to the Saudi Royals or any other foreign entity. Much of that money will still end up in foreign countries but not until it at least goes through our economy once.
This is US tax payer money that is being spent to put American's to work. Personally I don't care if other countries don't get jobs out of this. If Canada is so worried about jobs then why don't they create their own stimulus program?
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