Buy American Mention of the Week, 2-7-14 Nation needs to protect its own businesses

[Omaha Steve]

http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/02/trans-pacific-partnership-free-trade-madness/

Trans-Pacific Partnership 'free-trade madness'
Roger Simmermaker: Nation needs to protect its own businesses



There never seems to be a shortage of potential free-trade deals that need to be disposed of but this is what we must do if we as Americans want to protect our jobs, sovereignty, and independence.

In the 1990s it was NAFTA, which turned our 1993 trade surplus with Mexico ($2.5 billion) into a massive trade deficit ($181 billion by 2012) and made our trade deficit with Canada even worse.

Today, it’s the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would lock us into an undesirable agreement with other countries: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and Singapore.

Right off the bat, it’s important to know that the TPP would make any “Buy American” or “Buy Local” laws or preferences illegal. The benefit, we are told, in waiving Buy American procurement policies is that we would avoid potential “Buy Malaysia” laws from Malaysia, “Buy Singapore” laws from Singapore, etc.

Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/02/trans-pacific-partnership-free-trade-madness/#L4SVyYRG2OixcAe8.99

FULL story at link.