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Post by fordsupplier on Nov 7, 2009 0:56:49 GMT -5
In a blinding flash of protectionism, New York Senator Charles Schumer has written a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, asking Chu to block federal funding for development of a huge $1.5 billion Texas wind farm which will be build using turbines manufactured in China. The project is expected to create 330 jobs in Texas and 800 jobs in the Chinese factory which will build the turbines. “The purpose of the Recovery Act was to jump start the economy to create and save jobs – American jobs,” Schumer wrote. “American taxpayer dollars should not be used to finance those Chinese jobs.”
Walt Horniday, president of one of the U. S. partners in the project, responded, “This project will not take place without the planned benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Any characterization of this planned project as anything other than an economic development lifeline to the wind industry during tough economic times is just inaccurate.”
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn of Texas used the wind farm project as one example of a failure of Obama administration economic policies. “This just shows how ridiculous this whole stimulus proposal was,” Cornyn said, acknowledging, however, that “Texas would like to have the investment.” Cornyn seems to forget that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was crafted in Congress, and apparently passed without much thought by Senators and Representatives as to what American businesses would do with the $787 billion they were doling out.
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Post by ScottR@KTP on Nov 7, 2009 18:31:16 GMT -5
What a joke!
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Post by marcus on Nov 19, 2009 18:10:10 GMT -5
Bush and HBO what a joke!
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Post by dowhat on Nov 26, 2009 13:16:04 GMT -5
This is the same republican party that fought Obama about the BUY AMERICAN provision which OBAMA tried to put into place right?
Republicans: this is PROTECTIONISM AND IS VERY VERY BAD FOR THE UNITED STATES!
now they are cring about wind farms being outsourced! Please!
So Obama tried to create jobs in America with a BUY AMERICAN LAW? YES
Who or what is fighting this BUY AMERICAN LAW? (claiming it is BADDDD FOR YOU AND I) REPUBLICANS
NOW THAT IS THE REAL JOKE!!
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Post by justaworker on Nov 27, 2009 9:33:41 GMT -5
This is the same republican party that fought Obama about the BUY AMERICAN provision which OBAMA tried to put into place right? Republicans: this is PROTECTIONISM AND IS VERY VERY BAD FOR THE UNITED STATES! now they are cring about wind farms being outsourced! Please! So Obama tried to create jobs in America with a BUY AMERICAN LAW? YES Who or what is fighting this BUY AMERICAN LAW? (claiming it is BADDDD FOR YOU AND I) REPUBLICANS NOW THAT IS THE REAL JOKE!! protectionism is bad...this is about how screwed up the so called stimulus plan was. stimulating chineese jobs, great. libs will make it bush's fault somehow. |
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Post by dowhat on Nov 27, 2009 10:00:46 GMT -5
This is the same republican party that fought Obama about the BUY AMERICAN provision which OBAMA tried to put into place right? Republicans: this is PROTECTIONISM AND IS VERY VERY BAD FOR THE UNITED STATES! now they are cring about wind farms being outsourced! Please! So Obama tried to create jobs in America with a BUY AMERICAN LAW? YES Who or what is fighting this BUY AMERICAN LAW? (claiming it is BADDDD FOR YOU AND I) REPUBLICANS NOW THAT IS THE REAL JOKE!! protectionism is bad...this is about how screwed up the so called stimulus plan was. stimulating chineese jobs, great. libs will make it bush's fault somehow. thank you justaworker for your insight! you help me make my point! Republicans as stated in the article above is bashing the Obama adminastration for wind turbines being built overseas?  saying they should be built here in America??? and these are the SAME REPUBLICANS that fought Obama on the Provision that tried to keep jobs here in America! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! WHICH WOULD MEAN MORE JOBS HERE IN AMERICA! and as justawork stated above it is bad for America! This not about Bush as much as it is about Republicans ideaology. and there mission to oppose anything the DEMS do! But thanks again justaworker |
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Post by justaworker on Nov 27, 2009 12:35:49 GMT -5
protectionism is bad...this is about how screwed up the so called stimulus plan was. stimulating chineese jobs, great. libs will make it bush's fault somehow. thank you justaworker for your insight! you help me make my point! Republicans as stated in the article above is bashing the Obama adminastration for wind turbines being built overseas? saying they should be built here in America??? and these are the SAME REPUBLICANS that fought Obama on the Provision that tried to keep jobs here in America! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! WHICH WOULD MEAN MORE JOBS HERE IN AMERICA! and as justawork stated above it is bad for America! This not about Bush as much as it is about Republicans ideaology. and there mission to oppose anything the DEMS do! But thanks again justaworker man, you totally missed the point. the whole stimulus package was/is a joke. most of america now realizes that. the money should be spent here, but the gov't can't control that...but the gov't shouldn't have been throwing that money around to start with. politics as usual for the dems....change you can believe in though. LOL |
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Post by dowhat on Nov 27, 2009 13:16:44 GMT -5
thank you justaworker for your insight! you help me make my point! Republicans as stated in the article above is bashing the Obama adminastration for wind turbines being built overseas? saying they should be built here in America??? and these are the SAME REPUBLICANS that fought Obama on the Provision that tried to keep jobs here in America! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! WHICH WOULD MEAN MORE JOBS HERE IN AMERICA! and as justawork stated above it is bad for America! This not about Bush as much as it is about Republicans ideaology. and there mission to oppose anything the DEMS do! But thanks again justaworker man, you totally missed the point. the whole stimulus package was/is a joke. most of america now realizes that. the money should be spent here, but the gov't can't control that...but the gov't shouldn't have been throwing that money around to start with. politics as usual for the dems....change you can believe in though. LOL No No you totally missed the point of this thread, Please take the time to read the above article. anyway like I said thank you for helping me make my point that Republicians dont have a clue. |
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Post by justaworker on Nov 27, 2009 16:55:42 GMT -5
oh, they have a clue. you can't grow the economy by throwing money around you don't have...then taxing the p!ss out of us to try and get it back. that little plan aint working too good, is it?
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saying they should be built here in America??? and these are the SAME REPUBLICANS that fought Obama on the Provision that tried to keep jobs here in America! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! WHICH WOULD MEAN MORE JOBS HERE IN AMERICA! and as justawork stated above it is bad for America!