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Made in ???
Why is Duluth importing lumber from Germany? I don't want a house made of foreign wood any more than I want Levis made in Turkey, Mexico or Poland; or a Playboy magazine printed on South African paper; or a washing machine made out of Slobovian steel.
How do we get back to "Made in U.S.A.?" Seems our steel crisis is nothing new. In the July 22, 1997, Duluth News Tribune two articles' headlines read: "Steel-quota dispute puts Clinton in vise" and "Layoffs looming for taconite workers."
So what have our great minions of democracy been doing for the past five years? Sure as heck not fighting for Northern Minnesotans like they tell us! We've made millionaires out of two of them and given fat lifetime retirements and years of free rides to our DFL state-elected representatives. And for what? All they offer in return is excuses, unemployment checks, food stamps, classes on how to find a job and oh ya ... A Hockey Hall of Fame. They should all be shipped off to the Hall of Shame!
Senator Wellstone and Representative Oberstar have supported every globalist scheme that's come along; NAFTA, GATT, WTO, ICC, UN Bio-diversity and Sustainable Development, Global warming, the EU, and probably The Earth Charter and Charter for Global Democracy. Why haven't they opposed these bad programs and forewarned us about them?
NAFTA , conceived under old man Bush, adolescenced by Clinton, and now, in its adulthood, has been solely responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs, with more to come, through George W.'s Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) which will expand NAFTA to 31 other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
Those elected who sat silently on their fat hands and let all this happen sure can't be trusted to fix anything. Therefore, isn't it time to vote some new people into office, especially if they don't sing that same O-o-o-o-ld T-i-i-i-ired song about how they're helping us?
There is a much ignored rule of economics: "You can't do business with people who ain't got no money."
Jim Van Dell
Duluth
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