Would it be better for the USA in the long run to end this practice of offshore outsourceing? Yes, it would. In the short term, would this move cause a LOT of pain? Oh yeah, it would.

And the longer we wait, the more it's going to hurt. And if we continue doing what we're doing, the hurt will hit us like a sledge hammer.

(best guess at this time is the hammer will hit us when we reach $24T in "on-the-books" national debt.)

Isn't it already to late. What common item do you know of that is totally made in the US, excluding food.

Even Harley parts are made in India.

Would it be better for the USA in the long run to end this practice of offshore outsourceing? Yes, it would. In the short term, would this move cause a LOT of pain? Oh yeah, it would.

And the longer we wait, the more it's going to hurt. And if we continue doing what we're doing, the hurt will hit us like a sledge hammer.

(best guess at this time is the hammer will hit us when we reach $24T in "on-the-books" national debt.)

Isn't it already to late. What common item do you know of that is totally made in the US, excluding food.

Even Harley parts are made in India.

As to food aren't you ignoring the farmer's tractors ....

Wait for the scree about the commerce clause ....

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Would it be better for the USA in the long run to end this practice of offshore outsourceing? Yes, it would. In the short term, would this move cause a LOT of pain? Oh yeah, it would.

And the longer we wait, the more it's going to hurt. And if we continue doing what we're doing, the hurt will hit us like a sledge hammer.

(best guess at this time is the hammer will hit us when we reach $24T in "on-the-books" national debt.)

Isn't it already to late. What common item do you know of that is totally made in the US, excluding food.

Even Harley parts are made in India.

As to food aren't you ignoring the farmer's tractors ....

Wait for the scree about the commerce clause ....

I was under the impression that Massey Ferguson, John Deere and Caterpillar Inc were still North American companies with their production factories still based there.

Would it be better for the USA in the long run to end this practice of offshore outsourceing? Yes, it would. In the short term, would this move cause a LOT of pain? Oh yeah, it would.

And the longer we wait, the more it's going to hurt. And if we continue doing what we're doing, the hurt will hit us like a sledge hammer.

(best guess at this time is the hammer will hit us when we reach $24T in "on-the-books" national debt.)

Isn't it already to late. What common item do you know of that is totally made in the US, excluding food.

Even Harley parts are made in India.

Don't think a dollar bill counts as food.

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

Would it be better for the USA in the long run to end this practice of offshore outsourceing? Yes, it would. In the short term, would this move cause a LOT of pain? Oh yeah, it would.

And the longer we wait, the more it's going to hurt. And if we continue doing what we're doing, the hurt will hit us like a sledge hammer.

(best guess at this time is the hammer will hit us when we reach $24T in "on-the-books" national debt.)

Isn't it already to late. What common item do you know of that is totally made in the US, excluding food.

Even Harley parts are made in India.

Don't think a dollar bill counts as food.

Good one, Bobby.

More US jobs on the move out of the country, Avon to move headquarters to UK

I was under the impression that Massey Ferguson, John Deere and Caterpillar Inc were still North American companies with their production factories still based there.

Assembly facilities. Once you get down to the exploded parts list ....... hydraulic pumps, oil seals, o-rings, bolts, hoses, belts, pistons, light bulbs, cotter pins .....
Oh you missed Kubota, New Holland, Class, Case IH and over 100 other brands.

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Well, thankfully for me, my employer Pierce Manufacturing, still makes fire trucks in the good ol' USofA.
Some of our 'competitors' do not.

We manufacture everything from the chassis on up.
Motors come from Cummins or Detroit Diesel.
Our parent company, Oshkosh Corporation, supplies some suspension components and engineering expertise.
And was recently awarded a 6.7 BILLION dollar contract to supply our government with defense vehicles.
And every one of them shall be built in either Appleton or Oshkosh, Wisconsin.


With our main plant in Appleton, Wisconsin and our sister plant in Bradenton, Florida, we keep a couple thousand of US based employees bringing home the bacon.

And are ready to put out the fire if the bacon gets out of control...LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

hmmm...

Rubio is out.

8:20 p.m.

Republican Marco Rubio is ending his campaign for the Republican nomination for president after a humiliating loss in his home state of Florida.

Rubio told a crowd in Miami Tuesday that he knows that voters are angry and that there is a hunger for new faces and voices in government.

Rubio's decision was prompted by losses in all but three of the presidential nomination contests but Florida's winner-take-all primary proved the most devastating. Only six years earlier, he was a tea party favorite who crushed the GOP's "establishment" candidate to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

But the political tables turned on the Florida senator as a 2016 presidential candidate who was lambasted as mainstream in a year when voters cried out for an outsider.

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hmmm...

Rubio is out.

Only six years earlier, he was a tea party favorite who crushed the GOP's "establishment" candidate to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Well, all that tea they drank must have been spiked with anger. Wonder how many will have TIA's from their high blood pressure? ;)

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Rubio is out.

Leaves 'Fraud' Hillary, 'Marxist' Bernie, 'Crazy' Trump, and 'Fanatical' Cruz.

Yes... I did leave one out.

Doesn't matter much.
Hillarious might be in prison by the time the election is over.
And like it or not, Trump is the only other viable candidate.
He IS going to be our next president.

Unless, as some are predicting, he is assassinated by powers that simply cannot tolerate a total changing of the guard.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

ClydeNotClyde said:

Yes... I did leave one out.

Dat would be Mr. Potato Head. He is A Spitting Image of Da Put Together Man. And All Plastic, All Da Time.

Loved OBlabby's SC O TUS Drone Today.

Then, Da Nominee gets to mike and Starts to Cry.

Yeah, Great Cred.

I Don't Want No Cry Babies.

Frankenstein aka RED Button Don in '16

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

If Trump doesn't get enough delegates to win the nomination outright, it will definitely be an interesting convention.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

If Trump doesn't get enough delegates to win the nomination outright, it will definitely be an interesting convention.

Maybe for once California will have a say .... On the thirty eighth ballot ....

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If Trump doesn't get enough delegates to win the nomination outright, it will definitely be an interesting convention.

Maybe for once California will have a say .... On the thirty eighth ballot ....

That's right. I don't know how the order of progression works with these caucuses/primaries.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I think delegates are only required to vote for the candidate their state chose in the first roll call. After that it could be a free for all.

It seems we may be stuck with our first female president right after our first non white leader, (Was that politically correct?)

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

After the most recent primaries/caucuses, it's only natural to think that Donald Trump does have a first-ballot chance. So, I've been toying with the idea of who might be called to serve in a Trump Presidency:

1) VICE PRESIDENT -- A man who, like Trump, is considered a political maverick - former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura.

2) FEMA DIRECTOR -- Darling of Hurricane Sandy and first candidate to endorse Trump, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

3) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE -- Former USMC Lt. Colonel, Oliver North.

4) SECRETARY OF STATE -- Watergate dirty trickster, G. Gordon Liddy.

5) AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. -- King of insult-comedy, Don Rickles.

6) POSTMASTER GENERAL -- none - USPS will be privatized.

7) SURGEON GENERAL -- Former candidate, Ben Carson, out of sympathy for the poor guy - and because he endorsed Trump.

8) NOMINEE TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT -- Retired Manhattan Criminal & Family Court judge, the honorable Judith Susan Sheindlin (also known to reality-show buffs as "Judge Judy").

After such an administration, I think it's fairly certain that the Democrats will capture the White House in 2020 - and possibly majorities in both houses of Congress (grin). This assumes America will still "be around" in 2020.

I confess that this year's Presidential hopefuls leave me shaking and scratching my head. We've got Trump (a bombastic populist with a trail of shadyness ala Trump University), Cruz (a dirty-trickster whose staff ordered robocalls to convince voters that Rubio & Kasich had already dropped out), Kasich (an otherwise intelligent guy handicapped by the charisma of a paperweight), Clinton (who can't keep national secrets out of her private email server), and Sanders (an independent socialist whose base consists primarily of young voters with little if any real-life experience).

What a year (sigh).

Global Forecasting Service puts Trump Presidency at number 6 on its top 10 Global Risk list.

https://gfs.eiu.com/Archive.aspx?archiveType=globalrisk

Rubio is out.

Leaves 'Fraud' Hillary, 'Marxist' Bernie, 'Crazy' Trump, and 'Fanatical' Cruz.

Yes... I did leave one out.

Doesn't matter much.
Hillarious might be in prison by the time the election is over.
And like it or not, Trump is the only other viable candidate.
He IS going to be our next president.

Unless, as some are predicting, he is assassinated by powers that simply cannot tolerate a total changing of the guard.

Hey Mark.

As a mouthpiece for Drumpf you're probably all for a Wall with automated machine guns aimed at the Canadian, and Mexican borders.
I noticed you started a GoFundMe project raising 2 million dollars to save kitties, but was wondering if any of those funds would be redirected to
border militias, since you've said in the past that people sneaking across the border should be shot, and you just love to help.

Look....I posture a lot, and have some pretty strong opinions.
Having said that, I do believe that most of you understand that being a kitty kinda guy, I would not harm anybody. So stop with those accusations, please.

I simply and strongly feel that this country should staunchly defend and protect it's borders against illegal trespass.
Most other countries in the world do so. This is not an unusual expectation.
Not so much on the northern front, but mostly from the south. If we did so effectively, maybe 70 percent of the drug traffic in this country could be brought to a screeching halt. I would wish it would not be necessary, but facts deem it otherwise.

I don't think that I am really getting 'out there' by believing that it should be so. And I very much appreciate Donald Trump's position on that issue.

And I realize that not everybody agrees with his stance. But Hillarious and Sanders do simply not present any other positions I can work with.
Trump, while imperfect, gives me the most bang for the buck.
And I will vote for him.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Having said that, I do believe that most of you understand that being a kitty kinda guy, I would not harm anybody. So stop with those accusations, please.

Drumpf has called for riots if he isn't the nominee. I have a hard time squaring your stated non-violence position with your support of someone calling for violence. Something tells me you would enjoy watching violence even if you didn't actively take part. If you really believed in non-violence you could not support Drumpf.

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