Q&A: What's needed for rebuilding America? Buy American?

Question:

Wouldn't it help the economy if we had a buy American policy. We need to maintain and rebuild those sectors of manufacturing that have been lost. Real pay for real work.

But how do we square that with seeking the lowest-cost provider for goods and services?


Answer:

A good start would be to SCRAP all of the mandated additions to employment costs.

Perhaps it should be illegal to retire on a public pension until the average age of death (?75 or so) as the age the original social security plan was designed for by Bismark?

Clearly unions don't want to have a competitive environment when they demand early retirements at age 50 and, as with the UAW job bank, pay for not working.

If business can't afford to pay the cost of labor, it will either have to close down, invest and ask for more capable employees (thank the teachers unions here) or move out of the country.

It's always nice to have a green lawn, but it often takes water and fertilizer to keep it going. Starve it for either and you have the American economy.

Obama clearly can't see lawns need care - guess he grew up in the city?