EU attacks 'Buy American' clause

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There's a lot of weirdness in this thread...

Esmoreit said:

Farming is the highest costplace of the EU and a lot of farmers cannot compete with richer countries both in the EU and other developed nations like the US.
So it is entirely possible that they have a clause for them, though the EU usually supports farmers with guaranteed prices and subsidys.

Actually the US does the same thing with subsidies.  Farmers have generally struggled in the US without them so in order to maintain prices, the US gives certain benefits to farmers.

nordlead said:

I don't see the problem. It is a US economic stimulus package. It's not like this bill is forcing all the other companies to switch to US steel only. If you are trying to create work for US citizens, it doesn't make sense to buy things from other countries.

I think these foreign countries are just greedy and want us to buy their goods with our economic stimulus package. They should write their own stimulus package that uses their own local goods.

Granted, if this does spark some form of trade war, then I'd rather it not go through.

It would also increase the value of the dollar.  Since the value is relative to imports/exports, fewer imports would cause it to increase.  This means that it would be harder for other countries to buy from us so it is directly hurting them.

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.

Wow.  Just wow.

People like you worry me.