| | This is about having your cake and eating it too. Many of those who cry "Buy American!" are the ones who don't want you to notice that the policies they have advocated, whether as big union supporters, or as supporters of more and more regulations, or for more and more taxes on businesses are the reason why other countries can produce products less expensively.
Harry Reid is a big union guy, and a far left progressive on both regulation and heavy taxing taxation - if he can get people to believe his nonsense and to sacrifice by spending more for American products and if he can force more manufacturers to only build in America, and force them into extortionate relations with unions, he can continue his scheme of elitist control without anyone becoming wiser. He gets to blame big business, with their outsourcing, for the economic woes he and his cronies create. And he can cry that inadequate regulation and insufficient taxation are further causes of our woes. It's a con game.
He partners with unions so they become the beneficiaries of a shakedown scheme (for which they help him get elected - Local 1107 of the Service Employees International Union - SEIU - has the exclusive contract for the technicians that run Clark County voting machines, and it was charged that voting machines throughout Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, where about three-fourths of Nevada's population resides, were rigged to place check marks next to Reid's name before a person even had voted. County officials insist that no tampering occurred. And it's interesting that one of Reid's sons is county commission chairman.)
The progressive blames the victims - the over-regulated, over-taxed, prisoners of unions in no-right-to-work states, so that no one notices that they are victims. By making it appear that all things are the fault of big business and the rich who try to keep money that Harry Reid and the progressives think is theirs, and telling people that these evil people are the cause of unemployment steers attention away from the unions' and Harry Reid's effects on the economy and unemployment.
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