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Rep. Rahall D-WV03 pick up where Sen. Robert C. Byrd left off

by: CA Berkeley WV

Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 10:45:21 AM EST

We have all heard about the Shop Local movement for holiday purchases. How about Buy American, Give American? We still make a few things here. Turn over that item at and check. Buy an American job for Christmas.

And we can do this at the national level for much needed infrastructure repairs.

The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) came out today in support of legislation introduced by Congressman Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV), the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, that would strengthen Buy America laws and would require Federal agencies to be more transparent in reporting where taxpayer dollars are being spent.

I for one was appalled to find out the steel for the replacement of earthquake damaged bridges in the San Francisco area was foreign. Nicky Ray and a lot of other people know it doesn't make any sense.

Click to read the AAM's letter to Rep. Rahall.

Did you drive over any bridges lately with a Funded by a Tax Cut for the Walton Family sign on it?

CA Berkeley WV :: Rep. Rahall D-WV03 pick up where Sen. Robert C. Byrd left off

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Miniseries scenes filmed in Martinsburg, and Shepherdstown, and . . .

Crews with the History Channel set up to shoot scenes . . . for an upcoming miniseries, 'The Men Who Built America,' . . . The new series, which is set for broadcast next year, focuses on the influential builders, dreamers and believers that transformed the country from a decaying nation into the greatest economical and technological superpower in the world following the Civil War.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

by: CA Berkeley WV @ Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 20:39:14 PM UTC

Made in America - Again (0.00 / 0)

http://prospect.org/article/ma...
"Leaders discuss returning manufacturing to the U.S. in a Prospect roundtable."

With a variety of policy solutions.

The US is still, however, (if barely) the world's largest manufacturer.

We need do need to consider trade balances
http://prospect.org/article/wr...

As far as West Virginia is concerned, our manufacturing sector is still twice the size of extraction. But we ought to consider whether we aren't Ireland
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c...

Is manufacturing here as extractive as coal and gas?

by: JAWVMM @ Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 21:35:31 PM UTC

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