Three Cheers again for ABC World News "Made in America" series.

Last night, Diane Sawyer ran another segment in her "Made in America" series and investigated the source for many campaign products being sold by the Republican presidential candidates. Click the link HERE to see the video. This segment revealed that less than half of the announced candidates were using campaign t-shirts that were "Made in America". Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney were the only two who had shirts that carried the "Made in America" label. Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain both used t-shirts Made in Honduras and Ron Paul's were Made in El Salvador. To make matters worse, while Cain and Gingrich claimed ignorance and feigned embarrassment over where their shirts were made, Ron Paul took the opposite approach: “No, I wasn’t aware of it… but I wouldn’t change it. I would argue the case that the market should determine it.”

So it is that Ron Paul sees no difference between American business competing against each other and competing against low income countries that often subsidize manufacturing.  

Free Trade is a great concept to foster competition among American businesses. When a foreign government like China builds entire cities around manufacturing complexes that house the work staff and pays then pennies per hour wages, that is not Free Trade. As far as my Tariff idea (in my previous post) sounding more like the AFL-CIO, as one reader commented, I have nothing against unions and manufacturing that employs union workers. Trade unions have done a great job keeping their skills alive. As far as politics goes, there are Republicans and then there are assholes like Ron Paul who call themselves Republicans. Ron Paul makes me believe he would contract out the defense of our country the same way Wal-Mart and Sears finds suppliers, to the lowest bidder, no matter where they are.

One last comment in this ABC News series mentioned that Barack Hussein Obama's campaign was also selling Made in America t-shirts. Too bad Obama has to hold so many anti-American ideas and thinks so highly of those Islamic countries he has visited. And too bad the rest of the Democratic Party is only in favor of the pro-Democrat unions and has heaped so much Federal aid on the cities that have significant Democrat voters.

I often hold a contemptuous view of the slanted coverage on our mainstream news media but this series on ABC World News deserves heaps of praise. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!