Rightists throw fit against "buy American" rules

Modern American conservatives like to portray themselves as superpatriots who have a monopoly on defending good ol' red, white, and blue.

But this is a Big Lie. They'd rather buy from right-wing dictatorships that allow exploitation of cheap labor than protect the American worker.

The House version of the stimulus package being hammered out by Congress contains a provision that would largely bar foreign steel and iron from infrastructure projects. The Senate version goes further and would require that almost all stimulus projects use only American-made products.

That's what the stimulus is all about. Stimulating the American economy. Not padding the coffers of corporate overlords who exploit docile labor.

These proposed "buy American" rules are sending conservatives into screeching shitfits.

The Washington Post reports that opponents of these rules, which include "some of the biggest blue-chip names in American industry", consider the rules to be "a declaration of war against free trade."

All together now: One, two, three. Aaaaaaaaaawwwww!!! Did those big meanies in Washington keep the poor widdle corporations from Making more Money?

Big Business's global greed merchants are poor students of history. They claim "buy American" rules of the 1930s caused the Great Depression. Which is odd, considering I was always taught that the Depression began in the 1920s.

Those "buy American" rules helped lift America out of the Depression. And I'd bet that the new proposed rules will ease the chronic recession that's plagued America for the past quarter-century.

What good would the stimulus be if it doesn't even protect American jobs?

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012804002.html)