Progressives drive off business with over-regulation then complain we don’t by USA first. Pick one.Please!

Let the smearing of American Patriots begin!

Mediaite has some dumb stories – this one is right up there.  

I guess Mediaite has something against people from other countries having jobs and earning a living.

Here we go again. ABC refuses to do a story on the failures of Democrats since they took power in 2006, but they’ll waste their time on dumb shit like this if it means smearing Republicans. 

And who makes the 2 billion items used by the Obama campaign in from 2007 until now?

“Patriots”? I think you meant to say clowns.

No, I meant Patriots.

Mediaite basically perpetuates the leftist media’s attacks on Conservatives. 
Mediaite is trying to find a niche for itself somewhere between MessNBC and MediaMatters.

My only surprise is that any of this group buys anything made in America.

Funny how ABC investigated wear campaign T-Shirts are made, yet they never bothered to investigate the HAMAS terrorist group associated Palestinians who sent Obama tens of thousands of illegal campaign dollars by selling Obama T-shirts.

Maybe we should look after our own people first.
If that makes me a nativist populist, so be it.
If any Democrats are doing the same thing, I have no problem giving them scrutiny.
I respect Ron Paul for his honesty regarding the t-shirts, but he is wrong. Especially considering the unemployment and underemployment in this country.
People need to stand up for the American worker.

Do you only buy stuff made here?

Good point. They know it looks bad. That is the only reason.
The United States needs manufacturing. America needs a variety of living wage jobs.
Nature Freak is pro union.

hell the US Army hat i bought and the VA hospital was made in indonesia

Look around your home and add up the percentage of things made in U.S.A.  I guarantee you that it barely crosses the 50% thresh hold.  I did this once for an anthropology class and I was shocked at all of the things that I purchase that aren’t made in America.

Scroll down to Mogulite and you’ll read about the steps that billionaires in India are taking to clean up financially while cheating on safety and the health of their workers.  No, not West Virginia, because they have more regulations (although weakened under ‘W’) but INDIA, which is one of the nations our home-grown billionaires are interested in placing their factories and offices.

Such a simplistic argument advances nothing, and is actually dangerous. Regulation has little to do with any of this. Globalism did not just happen. It was planned. Nixon opening China to trade was a deliberate effort, planned to create new trading opportunities. Raygun pushed Globalism much, much further down the road, again in the belief that Americans would be the prime beneficiaries. Poppy continued the Raygun policy in earnest. Clinton also advanced Globalism with NAFTA. That’s been a bit more successful for the US, but the Mexican market for US goods is simply not strong enough to ameliorate the negative effects of Nixonian-Raygundian Globalism in other markets. Then, we have W. More importantly, Big D*ck Cheney since I don’t think W knew Globalism from Gumballs. Big D*ck was a virulent proponent of Globalism, and you can go back and review numerous speeches and interviews, including a rather infamous “60 Minutes” interview in which he quite literally argues that Globalism would render impossible the cycle of boom and bust. Then, of course, he and W went on a road trip which drove the US economy off the cliff. Unfortunately, President Obama has done virtually nothing to reclaim our manufacturing base. A pox on him for that! But, how could he? It’s gone, given away by Nixon, Raygun, Poppy, Clinton and W through Big D*ck. To reclaim it through another Industrial Revolution is impossible. So, we do the next best thing. We adapt to this new reality by becoming the world’s innovator, the technological keystone of the world economy. But, we can’t do that. The know nothing, denial T-Partee Terrorists who clearly have 21st Century political skills but 19th Century economic sense and a 17th Century style of governance won’t let us. There is nothing simple about it and to dismiss the complexity of the problem with a glib remark is not only disingenuous but dangerous. You must be a T-Partee terrorist?

Kinda tough when virtually nothing is made here anymore.

Kinda tough when virtually nothing is made here anymore.

Any idea where the t-shirts ere made that Barry handed out at the Giffords memorial speech? Just curious, but I would bet they weren’t “made in America”…. 

Any idea where the t-shirts ere made that Barry handed out at the Giffords memorial speech? Just curious, but I would bet they weren’t “made in America”…. 

Thank the unions and the democrats. They are in the process of running Boeing into China as we speak,

Thank the unions and the democrats. They are in the process of running Boeing into China as we speak,

Clinton ended Tshirt manufacturing in the US

For a span of 50 years, while Fruit of the Loom operated an underwear factory in the area, the local unemployment rate never rose above 5 percent. At its peak, Fruit of the Loom employed 4,000 people. By the mid-1990s, that number dropped to 3,200. In June 1998, Fruit of the Loom shut down its Campbellsville factory to relocate to Latin America. Fruit of the Loom was the primary employer of Taylor County, home to 22,000 residents. The majority of the factory’s work force had never worked anywhere else.

Stick ith that pro union stance, it’s worked so well.

That’s because ABC doesn’t report on bullshit claims.

Back yourself up WITH SOME CITATION PLEASE

That’s a ridiculous diatribe. The reasons for manufacturing leaving this country are so elementary a 3rd grader can understand.

1. Who pushes onerous and expensive reulations? Democrats.
2. Who strangled every maor manufacturing with onerous and unsustainable pay & benefits? Unions.
3. Who do unions support financially in 98% of all elections? Democrats.

Be proud of your legacy you morons, you OWN it.

are you for jobs or unions?

Naw I’m pretty almost certain he meant clowns-though FSnook would say “Nazi Clowns”

Once in anthropology class I stuck a flute up my….

ZAP

It takes bleach to make a white Tshirt, Democrats insisted that bleach destroys the environment. I guess it is ok to destroy the environment in Latin America.

Maybe the correspondents at ABC News can lick the Republican candidates assholes to find out where they are getting their toilet paper from.

If they thought they could break a story that damages Obama’s opposition you bet your ass they would.

If they thought they could break a story that damages Obama’s opposition you bet your ass they would.

Funny how Obama’s name is thrown in with the GOP…it’s that talking point that he is a centrist or more conservative than liberal that ABC/mediaite is pushing with that association!

As for “foreign” stuff – I wonder why ABC never did an investigation into the gazzillion dollars that team Obama took in from froeign entities in the last election and will again in this election.  oh silly me; ABC doesn’t investigate democrats….they just campaign for them and vote for them.

Really.

You’ll notice, I attributed blame to Clinton as well. Not that I should expect honesty from you of all people.

Watch out! There’s a tall, fair skinned man with blond hair and blue eyes standing behind you! Without any doubt, he has to be a radical Islamo fascist terrorist!

Thanks for demonstrating the fact that the media deliberately keeps you leftist loons uninformed.
If we had a fair and balanced media, idiots like you wouldn’t be making asses out of yourselves every day by basically showing everyone just how uniformed you are.

Now go run off and Google “Rafah, GA”, you stupid twit, and take equally as ignorant Valerie with you.

EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION FROM ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 -$957 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,672 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,644 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,583 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REDESIGNATION TO ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $717 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 $1,083 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION FROM ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 -$509 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION FROM ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 -$835 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION TO ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 $509 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION TO ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $957 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/02/2007 $1,282 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/02/2007 $873 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/31/2007 $954 Barack Obama
EDWAN, OSAMA
TRADER/TRADER RAFAH GA 972 11/10/2007 $707 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 $835 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/02/2007 $873 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REDESIGNATION TO ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,583 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,557 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/11/2007 $870 Barack ObamaEDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/02/2007 $1,389 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/01/2007 $2,018 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 $1,726 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/27/2007 $1,291 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/02/2007 $1,389 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/01/2007 $1,389 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REDESIGNATION FROM ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 -$717 Barack Obama
ADWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/24/2007 $1,002 Barack Obama
EDELSTEIN, DANIEL
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR/DATA CENTER MANAGER WINDSOR ON 972 01/22/2008 $25 John Edwards
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,037 Barack Obama
EDWAN, HOSAM
REDESIGNATION TO ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/26/2007 $835 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REATTRIBUTION/REDESIGNATION REQUESTED ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 $1,500 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/01/2007 $1,963 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 11/01/2007 $1,099 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/31/2007 $1,495 Barack Obama
EDWAN, MONIR
REDESIGNATION FROM ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 10/30/2007 -$1,583 Barack Obama
EDWAN, OSAMA
TRADER/TRADER RAFAH GA 972 11/10/2007 $1,102 Barack Obama
ADWAN, MONIR
ACCOUNTER/ACCOUNTING RAFAH GA 972 09/12/2007 $554 Barack Obama

And just in case you’re both too stupid to figure it out on your own, the “Ga” in “Rafah, GA” doesn’t mean Georgia…it means HAMAS terrorist infested GAZA, and the above info comes directly from FEC.gov.It’s a shame your pals in the “mainstream” media and Loon Forward MessNBC failed to inform you of any of these FACTS, isn’t it? Why do you suppose they never reported on any of it?

Diatribe? That’s a diatribe? Do you even know what a diatribe is?

If you want to deny the history of Republican presidents since 1968, have at it. It’s a form of lying. Largely to yourself, of course.

It does. Europe recognized that long ago. But, if you want to be environmentally irresponsible, if you don’t care to be a steward of the world God gave us, it’s your call. I can only shake my head and pity you.

Worked so well without unions didn’t it? Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. 146 workers, mostly young women. Fire escape doors locked for fear one of them might take a break. All perished. What a proud history you have.

That may be the most indi*tic post ever made at Mediaite. Yes, Boeing is opening a plant in China? Why? Airbus did. If Boeing wants Chinese business, Boeing had to have a China presence. Boeing is not leaving the US, regardless of what the T-Partee Terrorists do with reference to FAA funding.

BTW: One of the worse senators in Congress, my very own Kay Bailey Hutchison, made an articulate, impassioned plea to restore FAA funding. Kudos to her.

Maybe you could stick with examples LESS than 100 years old?

Ouch, that’s smarts.

“Why do you suppose they never reported on any of it? ”

Mainly because its bullshit. 

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, another T-Partee history, science and reason denier! You better Log Off, the train to Idiocracy is leaving.

Tell me, GENIUS,’why a lawsuit has never been filed.

Since it’s ALL APPARENT AND EVERYTHING.

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh yeah you’re looking for intelligent debate.

RIGHT!

Learn some history; besides that of the third reich!

RRK is right, nothing has changed in the last 100 years………lol

RRK is right, nothing has changed in the last 100 years………lol

Obama Camp Routed Out Illegal Donations from Palestinians
AUGUST 5, 2008, 5:13 PM ET
WSJ.com
Glenn R. Simpson reports on the presidential race.

Obama campaign officials said a trio of Palestinian brothers in the Middle East attempted last year to make $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

The brothers sought to buy “Obama for President” T-shirts in some 97 attempts, 32 of which were initially successful.

They wrongly identified themselves as American citizens, campaign officials said, and listed their address as “GA”, the abbreviation for Georgia, when in fact they live in a refugee camp in Gaza, a rump city-state between Israel and Egypt that is under the control of Hamas.

The donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds weren’t reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical error, campaign officials said.

The remaining $2,500 was refunded Monday. The refunds will all be reflected shortly in an amended report. New controls to prevent such attempts are now in place, the campaign said.

Only an idiot would have their stuff made here. I can’t believe this is even news.

In the world of trivial gotcha stories from the liberal media, ABC News may have set a new record for triviality.

Just watch, this will be a lead story on MSNBC tonight.  Because no gotcha story is too trivial for Rachel Maddow.

 OshKosh B’Gosh also closed their clothing manufacturing plant in Kentucky. Made in the USA has become bad for the environment. The tree huggers will only be happy when we all live in caves and wear bear skins.

See here:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abc-news-discovers-some-gop-2012-candidates-use-foreign-made-campaign-t-shirts/#comment-276383035

Well, Republicans do believe in FREE trade..this is FREE TRADE.. hows that working for ya America?

Well, Republicans do believe in FREE trade..this is FREE TRADE.. hows that working for ya America?

Just watch how fast the ALL candidates across the country now pay more attention to this and switch to American made products and actually help create American jobs.

People that saw this are now going to pay more attention and ask they’re city council member candidate, their mayoral candidate, their school board president…

ABC just created JOBS in America.

lol that’s classic.

Personally I recall it was George H. W. Bush that was speaking the first time I ever heard the words “New World Order”  and it was a Democratic Congress who legislated that we buy all our light bulbs from China..  Looking at Trade agreements..  Both Democratic and Republican presidents have pursued trade policies that have weaken our manufacturing and agricultural sectors at home.

you’ve now used your last paragraph enough times that it’s paid for.  I think your meds need adjusting.  

ONCE AGAIN: HOW COME A LAWSUIT HAS NEVER BEEN FILED?

Since this is SO BAD, and Obama GOT CAUGHT(!), where are the lawsuits?

But when FOX does it; it’s okay, right?

Yeah, and the democrats are using a foreign made president…….so what your point…or worse for America’s economy?

THE INMATE HAS ESCAPED
FROM THE ASYLUM

UNIONS: RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT BULLSHIT CALLED WEEKENDS

UNIONS: RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT BULLSHIT CALLED WEEKENDS

The reason why Fox has more than double the viewers of MSNBC is precisely because it doesn’t waste time on stupid stories like this one.

Fox devotes most of its attention to stories on the economy, the deficit, the border, taxes, the war on terror and foreign policy.

MSNBC devotes its attention to character attacks, mud-slinging, name-calling, ridicule, gotcha and (it’s favorite story by far) whining about Fox News.

The difference between these two networks could hardly be more striking.

Max points for Ron Paul!

I tend to go with you on this one. MSNBC has gone to being the anti-Fox in that it looks to attack any candidate that Fox supports, even if it has to look for trivia.

I count on CNN for boring balance and truth. Better to show cute cats when there is no real news than to go looking for trivial attacks.

I’m not giving Fox any points for anything but having Shep Smith.

I can’t quickly find the reference, perhaps because I can’t recall the particular candidate, but there was a mini to-do on the Democratic side in one of the previous cycles because some campaign materials were produced in a non-union shop.

My faulty memory wants to say that it involved the Clinton/Gore campaign because I seem to recall that the non-union shop was in Little Rock, but though the unions are typically a Democratic Party stronghold, both sides of the aisle should certainly kow-tow to the American worker.

Um… the clip is from ABC News.

This was ABC news not MSNBC, who that has more than double the viewers of FoxNews.

This wasn’t a waste of time, this was calling out politicians and in turn created jobs for Americans.

You’re nothing but a lilly whore for FoxNews.

Have you seen the AT&T ad on TV that shows forklifts driving themselves? Those forklift driver jobs didn’t go overseas. They just disappeared. That is happening to a whole lot of jobs.

With pointless reports like this one can only imagine what the entire left-wing mainstream media has planned for the 2012 campaign.

There’s a reason that trivial things like t-shirts are made overseas. Between government regulations and excessive demands by unions making it more expensive. There’s also the fact that it’s just a less profitable enterprise. So little that we would have to pay less than the salary a person makes working as a stocker at Wal-Mart to make it economically viable.

We stop making the crap stuff here in the US and focus on high tech components that go into manufactured products like television, software, and heavy equipment.

 It’s good to benefit smaller countries by allowing them to industrialize. They get richer from the manufacturing, begin to industrialize and buy our high tech components and items and heavy equipment that we make here that makes us richer.

Free trade isn’t a bad thing. Just don’t use NAFTA, GATT, or CAFTA as examples of free trade.

My guess it was more than once.LOL!

Since when does the GOP believe that the economy is going to turn-around by having MORE T-Shirt manufacturers?

It ALSO is NO surprise that the GOP would seek A) the best PRICE; B) NOT support UNION shops.

Doesn’t it BEG the question:  WHY are over-seas T-Shirts CHEAPER (including shipping here) than LOCALLY manufactured T-Shirts?  Could it BE that over-paid Union Labor is a factor?

Just asking…

OH, and I couldn’t give a Rat’s Rear End about WHERE the T-Shirts were made!

For ME, the FACT that Democrats STILL are intent on OVER-SPENDING and INCREASING TAXES is FAR more important as issue!

Maybe said already! 
But isn’t the democrat party the party for Labor unions? Wouldn’t that be a story if Democrats used foreigner items more then the Republicans? I see all the time Obama stickers on foreign cars yet they are yelling about american labors unions. This is the hypocrisy of the left! 

So you believe technology has destroyed America and no foreign dumping of products are involved? ok..  Welp, guess there is nothing we can do then.. except tax the rich and join the unemployment lines.. Im gonna have to start voting as a Democrat.. thanks for the information.. More enttlements, regulations and taxes is the only way to stop those meanies in technology…

I guess all those phones you use by AT&T and others are  made here with that same technology right? Help me here, Im trying to jump on the Obama team..and the components inside those phones are all made here with that technology… and those forklifts are also made here with USA materials.. thanks for opening my eyes…Here I thought it was an unbalanced economy and stuff came from overseas.. silly me..

Obama hires nonunion workers to set up his birthday party. At $35,000 a seat you can sit near him.

Wal-Mart used to have signs up in their stores that said made in America but that was 15 years ago. I haven’t seen one since.

Boy we Americans have become so ignorant it’s not even funny.  That you allow ABC to even get you this worked up about T-Shirts produced in other countries is hilarious.  Your so easy manipulated and divided, which is exactly what they want.  What American wants to work as maker of t-shirts?  REALLY??? That really takes alot of skills.  How about the real issues for once? You all have your heads in the sand and are complacent on the real issues.  You don’t care about none of the real issues and wont care until the problem hits your pocket or is on your doorstep.  Tell me what have you done to make a difference in our Government?  Your part of the problem cause you keep putting the very people who keep running our country into the ground, in power. It’s shameful, the founding fathers gave us this great republic,  and as Americans what have we done to protect it?  NOTHING!!!! We have aloud ourselves to be manipulated and divided by petty arguments such as this one! Who gives a rats A$$ where some damn t-shirt are made??? Does that have any bearing whatsoever on whether these politicians can turn our country around? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! Instead of just acting like sheeple and drinking the kool aid the media feeds you via the government, empower yourself and do research on political candidate and their records. Become informed and stop being spoon fed BS story lines like this article!!!! Do you not realized our country is heading towards economic ruin??? I doubt some t-shirt and where they are manufactured, are gonna bring us out of the economic disaster we’re headed towards! It’s true what they say, ignorance is bliss!!!! Keep on sheeple! 

We do slap tariffs on dumped products. Then, the other side goes to the World Trade Organization to protest, and independent “judges” work it out.

Tariffs are useful ammunition in trade wars. Trade wars do exist. But, just like wars with bullets, it does not “pay” to start one. The fact is that free and fair trade is what prevents nations from attacking nations, while blocking trade is often the first step in starting a war. These days, you don’t need to conquer a nation when all you have to do is buy their stuff. It is cheaper in the long run, and you still get what you want.

On other things, I have been making the same points you make here. Those forklifts are (mostly) made in America, and that is great. I have said before that we would think everything is made in China or Honduras if all we buy is t-shirts and other “cheap” stuff at Wal-Mart, but the big companies are buying the heavy equipment that we do export.

The jobs with the lowest skill requirements are the ones we are losing. Those and construction jobs when more new houses aren’t needed, roads don’t get built or repaired, and factories don’t expand for lack of customers, not workers who want the jobs that could exist with more customers.

It really all does boil down to sales, sales, sales. Even selling foreign made t-shirts is a retail job for an American.

Both wrong. Globalization started when the first trade across a border took place.
The Silk Road from China to India and beyond is an example of globalization
It is true that the first reason for such trade was that China had things that others didn’t have, and China needed things that other countries had. (China only mentioned as one end of the Silk Road, and of course Chinese silk.) That was Absolute Advantage.
David Ricardo wrote about Comparative Advantage in 1817. If you haven’t read at least the Wikipedia articles about Comparative Advantage to understand how it affects prices and wages, you don’t really know what you are talking about.

The US textile industry was destroyed by trade wars, not bleach. I posted the link that proves it in a response to JustPlayTheGame.

Walton really wanted to sell American made, but he discovered that it was not competitive, so he stopped.

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