EU attacks 'Buy American' clause

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bardicverse said:
The EU is the largest contributor outside of the Iraq War for the global economic crisis. That's like accusing someone of murder when you have blood on your own hands.

The EU should be torn down, its hurting the individual countries in Europe and eroding their individual cultures.

"Buy American" has been a slogan for 2 decades now, promoting products made in the US keeps people in this nation employed. Every nation should be concerned about their own people first, the people paying for the country to run.

There is a big difference between promoting soemthing, and having it put into law-form.

The bill is not here to limit what you buy, far from it. But what it does is probably cheapen the home-made steel or increase importfares on foreign steel. This falsifies free trade/sparks protectionism.

It's the domino-effect. If the US protects it's own steelindustry, the EU will protect it's chemical industry or instance, or certain parts of manufacturing, I don't know...
Long story short, the consumer pays more due to increased prices - no competition means prices can go up... which hurts the economy in the long run

 

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This should actually be attacked even further. I mean, the EU is hurting economies?  How is getting rid of roughly 16 different currencies for one pretty strong coin hurting?
Plus, the free trade agreements where certainly beneficial to all economies due to no more import-taxes.

And then we have the increased income for all EU citizens and the increased wealth in a lot of poorer nations. Spain for instance would be nothing without EU help to, for instance, help farming and increase infra-structure. Eastern Europe is also aided a lot.
And if it was hurting so much, then why is Turkey jumping through all those hopes to joing the EU?

Even if I have to take a most negative stance towards the EU then still it is the richest countries in the West that pay the most... in short, there are only a few nations that pay more then that they recieve. My country being one of the givers and I still applaud all efforts as it benefits us in the long run.