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Week of May 15, 2009
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Congressman John Yarmuth
Yarmuth Announces Legislation to
Cut Child Care Costs for Working
Parents
UPS, Humana join Congressman in support of bill
Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced that he has introduced H.R. 2298, the Expanding Dependent and Child Care Act of 2009, which will help individuals and couples cope with the costs of childcare and care for older adults. The legislation would increase the Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA) limit by 50 percent to $7,500 for multiple dependents and $3,750 for single filers – up from $5000 and $2500 respectively - and then index the cap to inflation in subsequent years.
"This legislation will offer some much-needed child care assistance to working families and help businesses retain a strong and productive workforce,” Congressman Yarmuth said.
Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX-3), who introduced the bill with Yarmuth said, "Raising children is tough enough, especially in these difficult economic times. This common-sense bill provides some help for parents who are working hard and trying to do the best for their kids.”
A DCFSA is a tax-advantaged financial account that can be set up through an employer. It allows an employee to set aside a portion of his or her earnings to pay for dependent care expenses of a child or elderly dependent. Money deducted from an employee's pay into a DCFSA is not subject to payroll taxes, resulting in a substantial payroll tax savings for the employer and employee.
Although the average yearly cost of full-time child care for a Kentucky infant is now more than $6,000, and the strength of the dollar is about half what it was in 1986, the current DCSFA caps have not been raised since its inception 23 years ago. H.R. 2298 would index the new caps for inflation to avoid weakening the provision again in the future.
Currently, 60 percent of children under age six have two working parents, and nearly 40 percent of all working families care for older dependents. Families who participate in DCFSA’s would see significant savings in their dependent and child care bills.
UPS, Humana, and many other Louisville companies offer DCFSA’s to their employees.
Business Roundtable: ‘We’re Going To Spend Whatever It Takes’ To Defeat Corporate Tax Reform
Yesterday, the Obama
administration completed its budget release, “with fresh details on a plan
to
scale back tax
advantages for businesses operating overseas.” The administration wants
to prevent corporations from claiming
tax deductions on overseas investments until they pay U.S. taxes on
their profits, and change a rule known as “check
the box,” which has amounted to a loophole allowing companies to
easily shift income into low tax countries.
We’ve noted before that the business lobby is gearing up to challenge these proposals. And today in Politico, the Business Roundtable laid out how serious it really is about preventing these reforms:
“We’re going to spend whatever it takes,” said Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn, senior director of congressional relations for the Business Roundtable, which represents CEOs of the nation’s largest companies.
The Business Roundtable alone spent more than $13 million lobbying Congress last year, and has already spent $1.2 million this year.
The business lobby’s main claim is that the tax changes will cause widespread job losses, a charge that is overblown. The real concern is that the corporate tax status quo is completely off kilter, as corporations can take advantage of myriad loopholes to simply avoid taxation. As Matthew Yglesias noted, “check the box” was meant to simplify classification of corporate subsidiaries, but it unintentionally created a huge tax loophole:
[A]s soon as it was noted, an effort was put in place to change it. But a ferocious lobbying battle opened up…The availability of this loophole is a significant incentive for companies to invest in their overseas subsidiaries and take advantage of the tax shell game. It’s a loophole that nobody ever intended to create, and that should be done away with forthwith.
These corporations aren’t doing anything illegal, but they are gaming the system to their advantage. So this debate shouldn’t be about whether the corporate tax rate is too high or too low, but about the responsibility that corporations have to pay the rate that’s on the books. The Obama administration is proposing common sense reforms so that corporations can no longer dramatically lower their tax rate by taking advantage of loopholes. And the business lobby has made it clear that it’s willing to go to great lengths to keep these loopholes open.
Update In the LA Times today, the Chamber of Commerce likened Obama's closing of loopholes to bank robbery:
"The administration's displayed an
insatiable appetite for spending and they need to get money wherever they
can. So they use the tax code the way Willie Sutton used a gun," said
Martin A. Regalia, vice president for economic and tax policy at the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, referring to the famous bank robber.
OFF TO THE RACES
Sometimes Silence Is Golden, By Charlie Cook
The other day, a Republican campaign operative whose experience dates back to George H.W. Bush's White House political office was lamenting all the hand-wringing and teeth gnashing over the future of the Republican Party. To this seasoned professional, with the last election having occurred just over six months ago, and the next election being nearly 18 months away, it is unrealistic to expect the GOP to have found its post-election voice this soon.
Even factoring in a certain amount of wishful thinking, he might have been right, but perhaps for a different reason. At this stage, with Democrats fully ensconced in power, the situation is pretty binary.
President Obama and Democrats are either successful in moving their agenda through, or they are not. If they are successful, Republicans could have the greatest message in the world and it wouldn't help much. But if Obama and Democrats are not successful in pushing through their agenda, Republican stock will soar, whether the GOP has a message or not.
New presidents are initially assessed on competence and first impressions more than anything else. Whether people actually agree with the substance of policies comes a bit later. A president and new administration are viewed closely and a bit anxiously by a public trying to assess whether the new team knows what they are doing and can get it done.
To be sure, voters had some misgivings on the contents of the economic stimulus package and, for that matter, the size of the budget.
But neither caused a significant problem, as Obama's job approval ratings have actually ticked up a bit this month. Having averaged in the low 60s in the Gallup Poll from January through April, his numbers have consistently remained at or above 66 percent in Gallup's three-day moving average since May 2.
With their House and Senate losses in 2006 and Obama's victory in 2008, Republicans now find themselves in a political time-out chair.
Right now, nobody is listening to them and nobody cares what the GOP thinks. As painful as that must be for Republicans, it does provide them with an opportunity to do some thinking, so that when their time-out period is up and they rejoin the class, they will be able to come in with a new approach, some new thoughts and something of a fresh start.
While this line of thinking might sound a bit like trying to turn lemons into lemonade, that's what life can be about; turning adversity into opportunity.
As long as Republicans were in power, while they weren't in the mood to make changes, they also weren't in a position to do the rebranding and retooling that parties are sometimes required to do. That can only be done when that party is out of view.
It's easier to say that Republicans need to change than it is to say what they should change. But maybe Republicans should take a page from the Democratic playbook.
It would be unprincipled, intellectually bankrupt and pointless for the Republican Party to move from the right to the left on issues or overall positioning. But, on some issues, maybe they would be best off being silent.
When Democrats lost their House and Senate majorities in 1994, polling for organized labor showed that the top issue for union members voting Republican for Congress was guns, something that had nothing to do with unions.
In 2000, when Al Gore lost West Virginia, Gore's state manager later said that the top three reasons for Gore's defeat there were guns, guns and guns. Guns probably played a factor in not only Gore's loss of his home state of Tennessee but in every state that even touched Tennessee.
It was the presidential loss in 2000, on top of the congressional losses in 1994, that convinced the Democratic Party to simply shut up on guns. As much as many Democratic elected officials wanted to legislate the issue, they realized that they couldn't get re-elected if they kept offending so many union members, white males and rural and small-town voters on the gun issue.
Gun-control advocates had plenty of other reasons to support Democrats, so remaining silent on the issue didn't hurt the party that much. Rather, it enabled it to have a conversation with voters who otherwise would not listen as long as guns were on the table.
Republicans need to think about this in terms of their emphasis on certain social and cultural issues. The GOP has turned away a large number of highly educated, economically upscale voters who would be a natural fit for the party were it not for these divisive subjects.
Republicans have created problems for themselves in the libertarian-leaning Mountain West as well because of their stance on these issues. When westerners say they want government out of their lives, they mean out of the whole house, including the bedroom. Generationally, Republicans are killing themselves with voters who are now under 35, who see the party as narrow and intolerant. As Will Rogers used to say, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
Health Care Reform, Revived Economy Best Rx for Social Security, Medicare by Mike Hall
Brace yourselves. With today’s release of the Social Security and Medicare trustees’ annual reports showing the nation’s sinking economy has had an impact on the Social Security Trust Fund, doomsayers will be crying for drastic medicine that’s not needed.
The trustees 2009 report on Medicare paints a compelling case for comprehensive health care reform to rein in the skyrocketing health care costs that are driving Medicare closer to the financial brink and weighing down the entire economy.
A closer look at the Social Security 2009 report shows the program continues to run large surpluses and remains capable of paying scheduled benefits in full for the next three decades. The trustees reaffirm that the Social Security system is sound and faces no immediate danger, says AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.
No doubt, Social Security alarmists and doomsday prognosticators will use these projections to justify dramatic “reforms” such as benefit cuts and raising the retirement age. However, the Social Security system remains structurally sound. Radical changes are not necessary to bridge short-term revenue decreases or to address the program’s long-term solvency.
According to the report, the recession has marginally reduced the size of the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds in the near term, but Social Security continues to run significant surpluses to meet its projected obligations for years to come.
Edward F. Coyle, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, says current and future retirees should be “suspicious of sky is falling” predictions because such warnings
mask an ongoing ideological agenda to cut benefits to current and future retirees.
In a statement this afternoon, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) says:
It is not surprising that Social Security’s annual financial picture deteriorates in a downturn….This short-term falloff in revenue has a relatively limited effect on the program’s finances as indicated by the limited movement in the projected date of the Trust Fund’s depletion.
…Retirees and near retirees have lost more than $10 trillion in housing and stock wealth in the last two years. It would be incredibly malicious policy to amplify the impact of these losses by cutting Social Security benefits, especially since people in these age cohorts already paid for these benefits through their Social Security taxes.
But Medicare faces a more troubled future. The costs of the Medicare program are expected to grow fivefold over the next 75 years, driven in large part by surging health care costs.
President Obama repeatedly has said that bringing health care costs under control through comprehensive health care reform is vital to rebuilding the economy. The same holds true for Medicare, says Sweeney.
Skyrocketing Medicare costs cannot be brought under control without national comprehensive health care reform. We urge the president and Congress to move swiftly to address this great crisis.
In a statement accompanying the reports, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said:
The Medicare Trustees Report makes clear today there is no more important long-term fiscal policy measure than gaining control of the growth of Medicare costs by delivering health care services more efficiently. These savings can only be achieved in the context of a larger effort to control health care costs and improve quality more generally.
Says Coyle:
The impact of the recession on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds underscores the critical need to support President Obama’s plans to reform health care and create a lasting economic recovery. Putting more Americans back to work will send more money into these Trust Funds, and a universal, more efficient health care system will alleviate the severe strain that our health care crisis imposes on both families and employers.
If you lost your job today, would you know where to turn for help? The new online Unemployment LifeLine from Working America and the AFL-CIO is a one-stop resource center to guide jobless workers to local services and advice from others coping with unemployment.
YOUR COMMENTS
DAILY GRILL
"[Democrats have] had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed
a law making waterboarding illegal."
-- Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
5/10/09
VERSUS
"The Senate voted yesterday to ban waterboarding and other harsh
interrogation tactics used by the CIA, matching a previous House vote and
putting Congress on a collision course with the White House over a pivotal
national security issue."
-- The Washington Post,
2/14/08
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"[Director of National Intelligence] Dennis Blair comes out and says that
these enhanced techniques worked and he probably would have done it in
2002." -- MSNBC's Joe Scarborough,
5/12/09
VERSUS
"I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past...the
damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they
gave us and they are not essential to our national security." -- Blair,
4/16/09
Quotes of the Day
"Bring it on!" quipped a White House official yesterday when asked about Vice President Cheney's recent re-emergence. A "dismayed" Republican remarked: "We're trying to turn the page and he's climbing out of the grave to haunt us."
Recent Senate Votes
Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 - Vote Passed
(91-5, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this bill intended to prevent foreclosures and improve
mortgage credit availability.
Sen. Mitch McConnell voted YES
Sen. Jim Bunning voted NO
Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act - Vote Passed (367-59, 1
Present, 6 Not Voting)
The House passed this fraud enforcement bill with an amendment to create a
commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis, sending the
bill back to the Senate for its approval.
Rep. Brett Guthrie voted YES
Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act - Vote Passed
(300-114, 19 Not Voting)
The House approved this bill to reform mortgage lending practices.
Rep. Brett Guthrie voted NO
Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
RADICAL RIGHT -- CHRISTIAN RIGHT: OBAMA IS A HERETIC FOR OBSERVING DAY OF PRAYER IN PRIVATE JUST LIKE MOST OTHER PRESIDENTS: Yesterday, President Obama signed a proclamation recognizing a National Day of Prayer (NDP), but he did not continue George W. Bush's practice of holding a "formal White House event." Leading up to the proclamation, conservative commentators spent days suggesting that Obama was in some way attempting to downplay the significance of the NDP -- and thus faith in general. Hate radio talker Rush Limbaugh went so far as to suggest that Obama was trying to "cancel" the NDP, while the conservative National Day of Prayer Task Force issued a statement suggesting that Obama was departing from historical tradition. The Task Force claimed that Obama's decision was "contrary to the administrations of President George W. Bush, President George H. W. Bush, and President Ronald Reagan." On Fox and Friends yesterday, co-host Steve Doocy echoed the claim that Reagan and George H. W. Bush held events similar to that of George W. Bush. Guest Elisabeth Hasselbeck asserted that public events at the White House on the National Day of Prayer stretched back to President Truman and strangely suggested that Obama's decision was interfering in Americans' right to "gather and pray" in public. In reality, it was Bush who broke with tradition by holding official White House events on the NDP. Indeed, the National Day of Prayer Task Force spokesperson Brian Toon actually admitted days before that "[t]here was no East Room event until George W." Indeed, despite the Task Force's claim yesterday that Reagan and H. W. Bush were in the habit holding White House events on the NDP, U.S. News and World Report explained that each of them held such events only once during their presidencies.
TORTURE -- FEINGOLD SAYS CHENEY IS WRONG, 'NOTHING I HAVE SEEN' IN CIA MEMOS PROVES TORTURE WAS NECESSARY: Vice President Cheney has spent the past few weeks on a media blitz defending the Bush administration's authorization of torture. During his media appearances, Cheney repeatedly points to two currently classified CIA memos that he says "showed the success of the effort." During a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on Bush's torture regime, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) declared that nothing in those memos suggests that torture was the most effective way to gain information. "Nothing I have seen -- including the two documents to which former Vice President Cheney has repeatedly referred -- indicates that the torture techniques authorized by the last administration were necessary, or that they were the best way to get information out of detainees. The former vice president is misleading the American people when he says otherwise," Feingold said. Also during the hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) echoed Cheney's defense of torture, saying that "one of the reasons these techniques have survived for about 500 years is apparently they work."
Think Fast
Former Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge announced that he won't run for Senate. "[M]y desire and intention is to help my party craft solutions that both sides of the aisle can embrace," he said. "My hope is to raise the level of civility in public debate and raise the bar on outcomes that serve our citizens fully, fairly and equally."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has backed out of plans to
attend the White House correspondents' annual dinner on Saturday, to which
she was invited as a guest of Fox News. Due to "a
state of emergency because of record flooding in Eagle, AK," Palin will
be unable to make the trip to D.C. and has also had to pull out of
co-hosting a dinner in Virginia for the Republican Governors Association.
In his FY 2010 budget, President Obama boosted his commitment to immigration enforcement, calling "for extra money to build an employee-verification system and to pay for more personnel and equipment to patrol the border." "If the American people don't feel like you can secure the borders," he said last week, "then it's hard to strike a deal that would get people out of the shadows."
FEMA will be taking away the temporary housing they provided to Louisiana residents after Hurricane Katrina at the end of May despite the fact that many residents have just received money to rebuild in the last six months or "are struggling with inadequate grants or no money at all."
Doctors, hospitals, drug makers and insurance companies will join President Obama today "in announcing their commitment to a sharp reduction in the growth of national health spending" that could "save $2,500 a year for a family of four in the fifth year and a total of $2 trillion for the nation over 10 years." Relatedly, in a new CAPAF report, Harvard economics professor David M. Cutler shows how "health system modernization could increase productivity growth in health care by 1.5 to 2.0 percentage points annually."
"We're doing what the Japanese did in the nineties," economist Paul Krugman told reporters in Beijing. "It's clear the administration won't take radical action to strengthen the banks any time soon," he said, referring to the administration's refusal to temporarily nationalize Citigroup and Bank of America. "A second stimulus is becoming clearly urgent. They need a very, very strong stimulus."
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was the target of some of President Obama's jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday, but he didn't take any offense. "It was good love between two brothers!" Steele said. He then "noted with a smile," "This worm will turn. My time will come. Trust me."
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is expected to announce today that he will run next year for the U.S. Senate. Crist's announcement "will trigger one of the most chaotic and wide open election seasons ever in Florida."
To pay for its health care plan, the Obama administration yesterday "proposed to raise nearly $60 billion more over 10 years mostly from tightening rules for inheritance taxes affecting the wealthiest estates." A Treasury official said the tax changes "would hit less than three-tenths of 1 percent of estates in any year."
"The top senators on the Senate Banking Committee have reached a compromise on a bill that would protect consumers from abusive credit card industry practices, increasing the likelihood that the Senate will pass it as early as this week." The compromise includes a ban on raising rates within the first year a credit card account is opened, among other consumer protections.
Forty-five Blue Dog Democrats in the House "have protested the secretive process by which party leaders in their chamber are developing legislation to remake the health care system." In a letter to three committee chairman writing the bill, the conservative Democrats said they were "increasingly troubled" by their exclusion from the bill-writing process.
"The parents of slain Army Ranger and NFL star Pat Tillman voiced concerns" yesterday "that the general who played a role in mischaracterizing his death could be put in charge of military operations in Afghanistan." "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation," Pat Tillman Sr. told the AP. "It is imperative that Lt. General McChrystal be scrutinized carefully during the Senate hearings," said Mary Tillman.
Though there is a "widely reported expectation that President Barack Obama will be looking for a qualified woman" to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, a new Gallup poll found that "64 percent of Americans say it doesn't matter to them whether Obama appoints a woman." Another 26 percent said that it would be "a good idea, but not essential."
HUMOR
"Dick
Cheney, the former vice president, said that
President Obama went too far with the
jokes at the correspondents' dinner. By too far, does Cheney mean like
waterboarding a guy 183 times?" --David Letterman
"Sarah
Palin has got a deal to write her memoir. Got a deal to write her
memoir, yup. I believe it's titled, 'The Book to Nowhere.'" --David
Letterman
"Dick Cheney was on the news this week, and he said that it would be a
mistake for the
Republicans to moderate their policies. He said they should remain true
to their core principles: gay bashing, war profiteering and torture." --Bill
Maher
"Donald Trump came to the defense of
Miss California, Carrie Prejean, despite her opposition to same-sex
marriage. Trump then said he personally believes that marriage is a sacred
institution between a man and a series of progressively younger women."
--Jimmy Kimmel
"Last night, President Obama hosted a poetry slam at the White
House. A poetry slam is when poets stand up and read poems. They try and
outdo each other. And things can get out of control. Apparently, last night,
one person got up on stage and rambled on and on and didn't make any sense.
And then, when
Joe Biden was done, they started the poetry." --Craig Ferguson
"Well, here's what I've heard from Washington. The
Republicans are downhearted. They're disenchanted and they're worried
now, the Republicans, because they're out of office, they're out of power.
The Republicans are worried that the image of the Republican Party is
downbeat and angry. And I was thinking, well if you ask me, honestly, all
the fun went out of the Republican Party when
Arlen Specter left. Are you like me, do you kind of feel, all right, the
party's over! … Yeah, so the Republicans are angry. And I was thinking, well
you know, the time to get angry might have been eight years ago, but that
didn't happen." --David Letterman
"Governor
Schwarzenegger says he is trying to get
marijuana legalized here in the California. He wants to legalize it.
Yeah. Yeah. I believe his campaign slogan is 'Change We Can Breathe In.'"
--Jay Leno
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to legalize marijuana. Good
slogan he has — 'Yes, we cannabis.'" --Jay Leno
"Louis Caldera, the White House aide who authorized the controversial
photograph of Air Force One over lower Manhattan, resigned on Friday. May I
suggest that they replace him with Photoshop?" --Seth Meyers
"President Obama announced today plans to either trim or eliminate 121
programs. The programs he wants to eliminate --
Sean Hannity,
Rush Limbaugh,
Bill O'Reilly." --Jay Leno
INTERESTING
None this week
Buy American Mention of the Week, By Roger Simmermaker
Buying tough American-made work boots isn’t tough at all
With the ranks of American manufacturing jobs wearing thin these days, wearing American-made work boots from The Union Boot Pro (www.TheUnionBootPro.com) can show you’re standing up for an American industry that is in danger of extinction.
The United States once held a position that was virtually unchallenged in footwear. The share of imported footwear didn’t pass the 10 percent mark until 1964, but it had reached 50 percent by 1979, and topped 75 per cent in 1985, according to the Footwear Industries of America. Ninety-Four percent of all footwear purchased in the United States was imported by 1999, and today, I doubt that percentage is any more favorable to American industry.
According to Gus Stelzer in his book The Nightmare of Camelot, President Gerald Ford set specific limits on imported shoes in 1976 until July, 1981. During this period, over 100 factories opened, $400 million was invested, and 30,000 new jobs were created. The footwear industry turned a profit for the first time in a decade.
When the quota limits set by Ford came up for renewal in Reagan’s first term, the International Trade Commission recommended that the import limits be continued, realizing the large national investment and employment gains that resulted from the quotas. The industry was still on shaky ground, and it was questionable if the profits earned over the past decade were sufficient to invest in new technology for future production.
However, U.S. Trade Representative William E. Brock, who was paid $500,000 by Mexican interests to grease the skids for NAFTA, advised Reagan not to continue the import limits. Reagan sided Brock. Within five years, over half of the newly reopened factories had closed and over 40,000 jobs vanished.
But these grim statistics certainly don’t mean we have to stand around in a pair of imported footwear with our arms folded thinking there’s nothing we can do.
Even if 94 percent of the footwear purchased in America today is imported, patriotic consumers can buck the trend of ever-increasing imports if they know where to find the six percent of footwear that is still made in USA. We definitely should not be a walking example of why the share of imported footwear is increasing with each passing decade.
A good place to start is to support an American company that has been making work boots in America since 1892! The Weinbrenner Shoe Company (WSC) of Wisconsin is one of a few remaining American footwear companies that still make work boots in the USA, and they offer over 140 styles, so you’re bound to find something that fits your style and your needs.
Weinbrenner makes boots from popular names you can trust like Thorogood, Hell Fire and Work One. And since Weinbrenner is employee-owned, you know they have a stake in making sure your boots are the best-fitting ever and providing the best customer service so you’ll be a return customer as well.
I currently have a pair of American-made Red Wing steel-toed boots, but the next time I order boots, I’m going to order from www.TheUnionBootPro.com. Why? To make absolutely sure that my next pair is American made since Red Wing has started to import some of their shoes and boots from other countries.
And as you can see from TheUnionBootPro.com website, boots from brands like CAT and John Deere are made in China, while Wolverine has a confusing mix of products that can sport either a made-in-china label or an assembled-in-USA label.
At TheUnionBootPro.com, they have an unbeatable 120% best-price guarantee, which means if you find an item for a lower price on another web site, they will refund you 120% of the difference between the lower price and their price. Shipping is absolutely free on all ground orders (there is an extra charge for express, 2-day or 3-day shipping). There is a minimal $5 handling fee added to each pair of boots purchased on the website, which is a fee charged to TheUnionBootPro.com for the convenience of drop-shipping directly from either the Thorogood or WorkOne warehouses in Wisconsin.
If you happen to belong to a union like the workers who build fine Weinbrenner boots, you can apply to get 27% off your order by filling out a simple form.
So saving money and getting a guaranteed, great pair of American-made boots couldn’t be simpler. Simply visit www.TheUnionBootPro.com for great footwear you can wear on the job and keep other American workers employed at their jobs at the same time.
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Roger Simmermaker is the author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism and writes "Buy American Mention of the Week" articles for WorldNetDaily.com and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com. Roger is a member of the Machinists Union and National Writers Union, has been a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Business Week among many other publications.
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