Topic: Trump: Buy America, Hire America - page 2. (Read 1190 times)

Trumps method of restricting American people to buy American products is one way of keeping the dollars intact and will gain more value. It is a strategy used by countries so they can earn more and pay  their debt. If you notice America is in the verge of bankruptcy since they owed hundreds of thrilions of dollars to the world bank. And so this is one way of overcoming those economic crisis.

There is a reason why many OFW choose US, because "some" americans are not capable of doing hard jobs or choose not to do certain jobs such as imbalmer, care giver. But meh, it offers large amount of money compare to office stuffs.

From my point of view, this is a good news for americans and bad news for many OFW working in the states with that kind of jobs, if they are going to priorities hiring american workers, in my opinion then the US is closing it's doors for many OFW

I wish my countries will adopt the same thing as this will help eliminate poverty, unemployment and inequality in our society and countries. Trump decision to fulfil his campaign promises of buying goods produced in America and hire American to produced those goods will weak  china yen and straighten dollar and every wise president should follow suite.

Companies should be free to hire anyone they wish. If they want to hire a qualified worker from outside the US, then let them do that. Why force them to hire American nationals, if they are not qualified enough?

As an American, I'm ok with the "Hire American" part. The "Buy American" part I'm not too sure about. I don't know if he means companies must buy parts and items needed to conduct their business, but personally as a consumer in a free market, I should be able to buy whatever I want regardless of where it was made.

Because of multiple past bad history with shit quality American made cars breaking down on me - Ford and Chevrolet to be specific, I will never ever ever buy another American made car for as long as I live.

I'm a fan of these policies.

They don't mandate that every American employer hire American workers, they mandate a review of employment policies and how Federal government contracts are granted to companies. I'm especially a fan of government contracts going to American owned companies BUT there needs to be the right balance between if they can do the job right, on time, and on budget.

An example of the opposite was when Obama hired a Canadian company to build the website for the Affordable Care Act and it crashed upon its go-live. The US practically invented website administration, mechanics, and design...the President should have gone to Silicon Valley to enlist the best US firm to produce the website with the functionality needed.

Agree.that we deserve the same as everyone else, and charity starts at home. But the fact of the matter is we don't have the infrastructure to produce alot of the shit  we make, because we don't have access to cheap factory labor like China, and the lack of regulation over there lowers operating costs, making for cheap, exportable products. We won't be able to afford our own products if we switch over to purely American product sourcing lines. And given the amount of infrastructure Trump is planning to build, do we have the production capacity to accommodate this new strategy?  Hire American, I have no complaints against. Fucking right, hire American. It's America. But buy American, not so inspired, in my eyes.

For an experiment, check something out for me. Wait for peaches and plums to come in this season, in supermarkets. The lack of immigrants crossing the border now, and this terrible, terrible growing season (we still haven't planted this year) will make this produce expensive as all get out. Mark my words. And this will be alot of other crops as well, ESP the Cali fruit crops and organic veggies. I'm all for change, but there are consequences.

All that labor intensive hydro lettuce grown in greenhouses? Harvested by immigrants, and highly perishable.

Tomatoes too.

Similar policies exist in most of the world nations, and why the Americans should be the exception? American workers should be given the preference for work inside the United States. The US can't be charitable to the rest of the world, when the reverse is not true.

What does everyone on here think about Trumps newest executive order which surrounds around the topic of people buying American Goods and hiring American Workers. This is going to direct exective agencies to follow through on his campaign promise of buying American and such.

I think this is going to help him tremendously when it comes to following through on his promises and should help him heavily with approval ratings.

Here's the article by CNN by the way - http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/17/politics/trump-wisconsin-buy-american/index.html