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Chuck, thought you might enjoy "MY DEFINITION OF THE 'INAUGURATION'!" - A HUGE HOLLYWOOD PARTY, PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS, MIXING THE SLUGS WITH THE OTHER SLUGS!' Come January 20th, there'll be no accounting for Taxpayers money! Bernard Madoff, Freddie, Fannie, AIG, the Big 3, and the rest of the criminal 'SLUG' politicians, should be hung in the middle of the streets so Taxpayers they've ripped off can throw darts at them - and this is good for them! If Politicians want to stimulate our economy and stop ‘Discriminating against hard-working Taxpayers', here's the best and only list that can and should be used!'Fair Tax-to include property tax', Public Schools, Welfare and Social Programs, period! This way, hard-working Taxpayers can spend their own money and educate their children in a good, safe, Christian School! After all, these children are our future! “Heartbeat of America” is a thing of the past! Don't tell me it's cheaper to send goods back and forth, especially steel and autos, across the water! Common sense and plain economics will tell you this is just another untruth smoothed over by the politicians' words of “I'll stop Nafta and Cafta and your jobs from going overseas!” This Stimulus Package is another form of untruth as something's going on! Printing presses going strong at the mints. Guess where this money is going? The folks getting a rebate check won't be ‘stimulating America's economy' only helping to ‘stimulate' foreign countries, as for instance; a] Wal-Mart - Money goes to support China. b] Gas - Money goes to Foreign countries that America already owes several trillion dollars. c] Computers - Money goes to India and when connected online, Taxpayers thinking their service is local - wrong - you guessed it “outsourcing” to India. d] Fruits and Vegetables - Money goes to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. e] Automobiles - Money goes to Japan. f] Drugs - Taxpayers no longer can afford good medicines and are forced to purchase Generic (made with who knows what) and, you guessed it, this Money goes to India and China. Watching the news about the trillions of dollars America owes Bank of Kuwait, and several more trillions due other foreign countries, makes Taxpayers wonder “when” and “why” the government decided to sell America out? Are politicians so ignorant they don't understand ‘everything is a trickle down effect?' It looks as though the only way to keep money in America is to buy beer, wine and Kentucky whiskey. Could this be why politicians want to build more jails and rehabilitation centers? It's time to bring back ‘honesty', ‘common sense',‘respect', ‘morals', and ‘principles'

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Chuck, it appears that folk in the US have difficulty finding genuinely American quality goods to buy. (In the UK, the problem even extends to home grown foodstuffs, increasingly replaced by foreign imports). With your resources and contacts, you could compile a list a retailers that provide such items and publish it on your website with regular updates. I get the impression that a lot of folk over there would appreciate that.

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Oh for affordable clothes made in the USA!! I bought some clothing that was so messed up one leg was bigger then the other, the side seams were off center ( quite a bit), and the elastic band came loose in no time. They were packaged items so you can't inspect it before you buy. You might say it was just a bad package but I bought another leading brand and found the same thing. According to the commercials you would think both these companies were American but I doubt it. You notice you no longer get a slip saying it was inspected by inspector so and so. I'm beginning to think that if we want made in the USA and the quality we use to have we are going to have to fire up our sewing machines. That's how many companies started out way back when and I'm thinking that maybe the answer to the whole thing. Start up mom and pop factories and buy from them and stop buying from these companies that aren't interested in quality anymore. Our forefathers didn't have the regulations they have put on people today that make it almost impossible to start many of the businesses our forefatheres started in their own homes.

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Sir;... Of the problems you mention: infiltration, selling out, abandonment by the government; and often, the fact that we have no choice but to buy foreign made are all the work of your rich republican supporting friends... Part of the reason the republicans lost in spite of having the candidate of their dreams against them, was that grass roots republicans have been so little served by the very government they have empowered... Our capital has been exported... Our jobs have been exported... These rich people we have made fat have bet all our wealth and most of our productive capacity on international capitalism... And, It is a fact that many of our employers taking profit out of us are really foreign too... There is absolutely nothing patriotic about capitalism... It will go anywhere, or do anything even if it paints us up as pigs, or wolves, or sheep -if they can see a profit in it.. Those people make foreign policy.. Those people make domestic policy... You want to wave the flag and stand on the line between democrat and republican and point the finger... Man; the rich own both parties... Look what was spent to buy an office and offices paying relatively -nothing... That is the price of power that is not paid without some expectation... The thing is, that the government, which should have an eye on the best interest of the people is in the hands of the rich who are always out for themselves... And even out for themselves as a class, the rich do not act in their best interest just as parasites often kill their hosts... And the fact is that grass roots democrats and republicans are both injured to the max, and the whole society is dieing; and you can see it in our morals as well as anyone else... It is just that we cannot cure morals half way...We cannot expect the people to buy American when there is no American to buy... WE cannot expect people broke by short wages will look at the label... We cannot expect that people misled across the reach of their lives, by government, by education, by religion, and by economy will be able to see the immorality capital supports abroad, of war, or pollution, and even, of outright slavery... If we buy a good from over seas we have no idea what an evil we may be supporting for the producer...The problems we face as a society cannot be solved by a divided people; and as hard as the medicine is to take, perhaps when we see that the republican and democrat are in the same boat, suffering alike the misery of depression, and knowing together that greed alone made this condition, then perhaps we will find unity...Thanks...Sweeney