Why did John Kerry try to put a BUY AMERICAN clause in the Stimulus Bill, but buy a yatch made in New Zealand?
New England boatbuilders are upset with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., for buying a $7 million New Zealand-built yacht while local builders struggle to find work.
"Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder," Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats, told the Boston Herald. "If someone comes to build a $7 million boat, that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boatbuilding is such a critical component of our coastal economy."
"The message is, 'The American boatbuilders aren't good enough and the Massachusetts people aren't good enough to maintain it.' It's just a bad message all around," said Connecticut boater Steve Potter, who docks in Charlestown, Mass.
When asked to respond to criticism of Kerry's decision not to buy American, his state director Drew O'Brien said: "When it comes to creating and preserving jobs and economic opportunity in Massachusetts, no one has worked harder in Washington than John Kerry. Sen. Kerry is using smarts, clout and good old-fashioned hard work to make the Massachusetts economy grow and prosper." http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1270040
Just another example of 'do as I say, not as I do.'
Bill2010-07-31T10:02:39Z
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The sickening hypocrisy of these liberals is just breathtaking. They've bled our economy dry, we're permanently indebted, they call us unpatriotic for complaining about excessive taxation, yet when it comes time to save some pocket change for a gazillionaire, they take advantage of every loophole.
Taxes for thee, not for me..... quote by Sen. John Kerry o_O
I understand both sides of this argument. As americans we should be buying american anyway. However things made in america are much more expensive than it is from other countries and it is because of labor unions here in the US. I have a friend who is a successful business person and no there is no union involvd with his business. He has several business through out the US and yes one plant overseas and just opened a business this week in Pennsylvania, because he has used common sense to run his business he has done very well, his employess make good money and do not have to give that money up to a union, he listens to his employees and their ideas, and yes he rewards them if he uses their ideas in his product. If people only buy American then everything will collapse just as it did back in the 30's....and the world does not need this. But as it is right now, american products are way over rated and too expensive and at this point I am buying cheap, and don't care who makes it. I have to keep as much money in my pocket so that I can feed my family and buy this precious gas to go in my car. So it basically comes down to this, if you want the world to go down the tube economically worse than it is now, then push the buy american, we will have enemies. but I see and understand both sides of the argument.....but if american compaines did not charge so much for their goods, then it would be easier to buy them and support these companies.
Kerry is far more transparent then Obama. We knew all about Kerry during his failed bid to be President. So whats the big flap over his not backing an American product. He didn't back his brothers in the Tall Grass War. What would make you think he would do so now.
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Do you understand all and remember the becoming of this boat belonging to Green sorry red Peace and I recall that the ecologist candidate again Chirac was B Lalonde the cousin of J Kerry by their mothers they are sisters.
If you're building boats that cost $7 million then you aren't one of those "Struggling American Boatbuilders" if you are then maybe you should think about lowering the cost of your boats, or increasing the quality so people will buy from you.
If you care so much about it, why don't you go buy a $7 million boat that's American made. It's his money he can do with it what he wants.