Obama's stimulus package will start a war of world trade? Is this what the trade war first world economic crisis look like?
Ordered by Congress to "buy American" when spending money package of $ 787 billion stimulus package, the city of Peru, Indiana, stunned by rejecting its Canadian supplier of wastewater pumps outside Toronto. After an officer of the Navy detected fittings in a building project at Camp Pendleton, California, they have been transported out of the ground and replaced by American versions. In recent weeks, other Canadian manufacturers doing business in the state and local governments say they have been besieged with requests to sign an affidavit promising that they will supply materials made in USA.
Outrage spread in Canada, the Toronto Star last week deploring "a scourge of protectionist measures in the United States' and Canadian companies openly fretting having to change jobs in the United States to meet the made-in-the USA -requirements. This week, Canadians returned fire. A number of Ontario cities with a population of around 500,000 collectively, have responded with measures to restrict U.S. firms effectively their municipal contracts - the first move in a larger campaign that could shut down businesses U.S. billions of dollars of Canadian projects.
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I thought the world would love us again. Canada has clearly not received the memo. They need us to love again. Hope for change is coming to DC and Canada needs to get on board with the program.
Could someone send them a copy of the memo dated January 20, 2009.
No
yes
No.
No. In most cases the U.S. has a mandate to buy the first American on the federal level and has been for decades.
Yes. It is what it is.
not least to start a real war, with all those uppity
Obama's economic ignorance is no bottom visible.
Posted on July 28, 2010.
