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To: c.horn who wrote (162)	4/7/2001 1:13:09 PM
From: Angler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

Mr. Hom: I was briefly in the business of Military Sales shortly after WWII. At that time military purchases were limited by the "Buy American" clause at least on those similar items that could be produced in the States and territories of the U.S. I recall that base commissaries were not allowed to purchase worldly grocery items such as imported Norwegian tinned sardines for the military dependents shopping there. This restriction has gone by the way of all things in this globalized economy. However, I cannot understand why with the demise of our own American fabric and clothing factories located in depressed areas that we would not mandate letting competitive bids for military purchase out to U.S. based factories only. This would help our weak economy too and keep some Americans off of layoffs. Case in point: the millions of new U.S. army berets now being imported from China. Why shouldn't the U.S. Gov't. at least award such purchases to U.S. based firms regardless of costs rather than hypocritically expounding against "slave labor and human rights violations?" The Rangers who were lambasting the Pentagon for currently furnishing their earned and exclusive black berets to all the forces should have noted this. The media and advocate groups belabored Kathy Lee Gifford and Nike for using sweatshops to produce their domestic goods and then forgot that taxpayers money is being spent in the same way for our service personnel! I suppose the next stop is when we inspect our $100 bill and it will state "Made in China?" I remember when the Japanese after the war invented a city name "USA" until customs put a s-t-o-p to it. This one appeared on the popular Zippo Lighters (copies) that all the G.I.s had used in the 40s. Angler