[TigerLikesRooster]

I have known for some time that America is most dangerous when it is nearly broke. Many anti-American elements did not see it through because they got so emotionally whipped up in anti-American hatred.

Anyway they would fall fast to the bottom and serves as a cushion for America following after them.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

don’t be complacent. our enemies are not dumb.

[dennisw]

Another wacky article getting all worked up about us only buying US steel for the stimulus package. We run a huge trade deficit so this is good move. Invoking Smoot Hawley is childish

[cripplecreek]

Some good old Reagan “protectionism” would be a good thing. We can call it self preservationism.

[Jim Noble]

I differ from most of you here, in that I am a radical protectionist. I favor American autarky, a continental economy depending on resource exploitation and domestic production, and walls at the southern border, which I figure should be about 100 miles south of the present one, with almost all of that 100 miles being a military frontier zone.

But that's just me.

[RU88]

Find it rather ironic that the biggest protesters of this “buy American” provision are American companies themselves. Companies like GE, and Caterpillar derive a rather significant percentage of sales in foreign countries. If these sales go by the way side you'll see even more Americans out of work as a result. I understand the concept of trying to preserve jobs by “buying American”, but the reality of a global economy makes this a losing proposition when other countries retaliate against protectionist measures.

[rbg81]

Other countries are lending us the $$ for our excess. Do you think they will take kindly to being shut out? They want to hold our debt AND reap the profits when our consumers spend. It is a win-win situation for them that gives them an ever-bigger stranglehold over us.

[A.Hun]

Protectionism is a very bad move. It will not help the economy and will not affect the unemployment rate in the near future.

We have lost manufacturing jobs not to other nations, but to productivity/technology. Our manufacturing has remained steady as a % of GDP while jobs have consistently dropped over the last forty years.

All this move will do is raise the price of steel at the worst time and start trade wars that will cripple our exports.

The US is still the largest manufacturer and third largest exporter on earth....abandoning free trade hurts us far more than it helps. It limits consumer choice, raises prices, and lowers quality.

This is just another Pelosi sop to the unions.

[ontap]

(Putin for a global putsch to topple the dollar)

Is he nuts! He can't do that as fast as O and his handy henchman in the democratic party can.

[chainsaw]

Rescind NAFTA

[6SJ7]

Days earlier, US Treasury chief Tim Geithner called China a "currency manipulator" ...

Pretty funny coming from Tim "TurboTax" Geithner.

[ckilmer]

Oh and one other thing. the technology is coming that will collapse the cost of water desalination and transport—making it economically feasable to turn the world’s deserts green and double the size of the habitable planet.

[SunkenCiv]

Putin has to be offed.