Are you buying American?

It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you are on, we should ALL be trying to buy American.

As a construction material contractor, I didn't realize how much of our material was made
overseas. Last week, after the Tariffs went into effect, the very next day manufacturers
levied Tarfiff surcharges on us. Most of them are between 25 - 35%.

We have told them all, OK, we will buy American. We have already opened new accounts
with manufacturers, and reactivated old accounts.

The sad thing is, I believe many on the left will NOT buy American, because they hate
Trump far more than they love this country.

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Steve42 · 56-60, M

I'm buying what is at the store. I don't like Trump, buffoon at best, but these tariffs are just the same thing these other countries have been doing to the us citizens since wwII. And paid for the security of Europe over the same time frame. I'm not against bringing industry back to our own country.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Steve42 And if those jobs were coming back i would agree with you. But they wont. America is no longer lined up to be that kind of manufacturing economy now. At best it is an assembler of higher tech items. And the way industry is organised the infrastructure like roads, rail and power frids wont cope..😷

carpediem · 61-69, M

@Steve42 And it appears the only man to even make an attempt at leveling the playing field is the "buffoon" you don't like. He campaigned on it and now, he's actually doing what he promised. Strange isn't it? 🙄

Steve42 · 56-60, M

@carpediem #FAFO

Steve42 · 56-60, M

@swirlie They never paid ythe 2% of gdp they agreed to pay when NATO ws started.

swirlie · F

@Steve42
You're right. It's more like 2.1% that each NATO member country has been spending annually, not 2%. Besides all that, it was the USA who wanted it this way, not the NATO countries involved. The US wanted full control of Europe's security to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons which each country was otherwise planning on having, but instead the US agreed to look after security with a 2% GDP contribution from each member country. Europe never came to the US begging for security, it was the USA who came crawling to the EU.

Steve42 · 56-60, M

@swirlie Well we don't want it any more. If they were not going to do it, they should not have signed the document saying they would.

Midlifemale · 61-69, M

@Steve42 Exactly.....since WW2, the USA has let the other countries rebuild itself with all of their tariffs and there hasn't been a president yet that stood up to anyone and said enough is enough. You made your money and built a great Europe......now lets even out the score and make the tariffs the same. THAT'S ALL IT IS..... as time goes on, the tariffs will adjust and prices will come down.
Just let our new president run the country like a business..that's what we need to get out of this massive debt we're in

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