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Fighting Back Against Fox News Falsehoods
by
Seth Michaels
Sen.
Barack Obama
is running for president to fight for working families and to make sure
economic prosperity is shared by everyone, not limited to a tiny elite.
Apparently, that pro-worker agenda threatens the corporate interests that
have been the beneficiaries of Bushonomics over the past eight years. These
special interests are lashing out with lies and smears, through such Big
Business-friendly media outlets like Fox News.
But, this election season,
Brave New Films
is challenging the lies and distortions about the Democratic
presidential candidate. Check out this great
video,
in which Fox News commentators and other reactionary loudmouths get called
out on falsehoods that wrongly impugn Obama’s policies, patriotism and
concern for working families and our troops.
Let’s be clear: Attacks by Fox News commentators
and other talking heads aren’t slipups, accidental mistakes or good-faith
misinterpretations of the truth. These are easily disproved and unfair claims
intended to mislead those listening.
These political operatives, disguised as
journalists, know that Obama will win the election based on issues,
principles, policies and values. So rather than explore the proposals of
Obama and Sen.
John McCain
on jobs, health care and other
working family issues,
they provide deliberate falsehoods to confuse, distract and frustrate viewers
into voting against Obama—or not voting at all.
The AFL-CIO has been
active in fighting
misleading smears, disinformation and propaganda, and AFL-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer
Richard Trumka
has spoken powerfully to union members about the importance of not letting
deep-pocket special interests divide us with deceit and fear-mongering. And
through the Labor 2008 political mobilization program, millions of union
members are getting the facts about Obama’s record and his plans.
Today, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual
conference in Orlando, Fla., Obama
took on
the fear-and-smear campaign directly.
If we think that
we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent’s
patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times
are too serious for this kind of politics. The calamity left behind by the
last eight years is too great.
These are the
judgments I’ve made and the policies that we have to debate, because we do
have differences in this election. But one of the things that we have to
change in this country is the idea that people can’t disagree without
challenging each other’s character and patriotism….Let me be clear: I will
let no one question my love of this country.
The campaign to
attack Obama and stir up division, distrust and fear will only get louder
over the next 77 days. The best way to combat it is to speak out about where
the country needs to go and to break through the lies and distractions by
addressing jobs, health care and the issues that really matter to people’s
lives.
Corporate media toadies like those on Fox are
spreading lies because they most fear an informed and engaged electorate of
working people, ready to vote for pro-worker candidates. Let’s not let them
win this time.
My opinion Garrison
Keillor : Someone needs to teach McCain what
'LOL' means
If you
haven't read
Garrison Keillor's
column from last week on the presidential, I
urge you to do so. Seriously.
Here's a
nugget:
And it's an
amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South
Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick.
The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him,
and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and
was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the
Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an
indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are
very lucky that their fathers were born before they were.
The
Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a
computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him.
But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the
Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is
hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.
Good luck
with that, sir.
Meanwhile,
the casual revelation last month that McCain has never figured out how to use
a computer and has never sent e-mail or Googled
is rather startling. It's like admitting that you've never clipped your own
toenails because your valet always did that for you. It's like being amazed
at the sight of a supermarket scanner. What world
doesMcCain live in? Where does he keep his sense of curiosity? My
94-year-old mother has sent e-mail. Does somebody plan to show him how it's
done and will they explain to him what "LOL" means?
A new bill would require
the Department of Defense to “grant
journalists access to ceremonies honoring
fallen military personnel.” Introduced by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) last
month, the bill has six co-sponsors and won the endorsement of the National
Press Photographers Association
this week. The bill states:
The Secretary of Defense
shall grant access to accredited members of the media at military
commemoration ceremonies and memorial services conducted by the Armed Forces
for members of the Armed Forces who have died on active duty and when the
remains of members of the Armed Forces arrive at military installations in
the United States.
The current Defense policy,
which was updated in 2003, states that there shall be no “media coverage of”
the returning war dead.
McCain's Mansions: The Houses That
Greed Built
"Most working families today do not have homes that have anywhere near
ten rooms. John McCain has ten houses. Many working people in America
have to work two and three jobs to provide for their families and pay
their car loans. John McCain hops on a private jet. Is it any wonder why
McCain champions a George Bush agenda of cutting taxes for corporations
and the wealthy, helping oil companies turn record profits, and leaving
working families to fend for themselves? McCain's velvet world leaves him
utterly unprepared to make the tough choices we need to restore the
middle class and ensure that everyone in America has quality, affordable
health insurance."
- Andy Stern, President,
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
John
McCain is soaring to new heights of hypocrisy on his wife's personal jet.
He flies around the country bent on duping the public into believing he's
"one of them," a regular guy who can empathize with Americans facing an
overwhelming economic crush. What's more, he disparages those who oppose
his
ridiculous policy proposals as "elitist." But who's the real elitist?
The REAL McCain is a
multimillionaire who owns ten luxurious homes. The REAL McCain backs
President Bush's
tax cuts for big corporations.
The REAL McCain empathizes only with the interests of our nation's
wealthy minority, not its money-strapped majority. But far too many are
buying into McCain's deceit because the corporate press won't present
the whole picture, so we created this video to educate the public about
the REAL McCain.
Watch the video and send it to everyone you know.
Together, you have been a
force in making sure The REAL McCain videos have been seen by
nearly 6.5 million people. But as Frank Rich noted in his
NY Times column
yesterday, 40% of Americans hear too little about McCain from the
mainstream media, meaning "the public doesn't know who on earth
John McCain is." That's why it's crucial you ensure this video is
seen by as many as possible, and that we use each and every tool at
our disposal to get the word out.
Send this on to five friends and family members,
and tell them to send it to five people they know. Raise hell
about McCain's economic duplicity!
AFL-CIO President John
Sweeney summed it up best when he said McCain "simply doesn't
understand the challenges America's working families are facing
because he isn't remotely affected by them." It's up to us to
tell people who McCain really is, a jet-setting elitist more
concerned with corporate lobbyists than hard-working Americans.
Kentucky's
workers and voters should recognize that the recent rash of anti-union TV
and radio ads are nothing more than propaganda intended to divert the
attention of the electorate from the critical issues of the day: health
care, good jobs, education, trade, retirement security, energy security and
the war.
Voters
should reject the cynical premise of this ad campaign along with those
responsible for its dissemination.
The ads'
principle claim is that the proposed Employee Free Choice Act would take
away a worker's right to choose union representation by the traditional or
”secret ballot“ election procedure. Not true. Under this legislation, there
still would be an option to have the National Labor Relations Board
administer ”secret ballot“ elections at the workplace.
Under the
current system, employers are the ones who make the decision whether to call
for an NLRB election — which they often do because it gives them months to
run an aggressive anti-union campaign.
The Employee
Free Choice Act would put this decision in the hands of workers. If 30
percent of them choose to have an NLRB election they can; if they prefer
majority sign-up, they will have that option as well.
Majority
sign-up is not a new approach. For years, employers such as AT&T, Cingular
Wireless, Harley-Davidson and Kaiser Permenente have allowed that majority
sign-up, finding that it results in less hostility and polarization in the
workplace than the failed NLRB process.
The ad
campaign attempts to deceive the voters into thinking that Employee Free
Choice is on schedule to be voted on in Congress. The bill was passed 241 to
185 in the House on March 1, 2007. The U.S. Senate passed it 51-48 on June
26, 2007.
But thanks
to arcane Senate rules, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and company
were able to obstruct passage in spite of the majority vote. If there is
some sense of urgency associated with these ads it is that McConnell, the
obstructionist in chief, is in trouble this November.
Those
responsible for these ads, the Center For Union Facts (more appropriately
the Center for Union Mis-Information and Propaganda) and its allied
organization, the Employee Freedom Action Committee, are the creation of
Richard Berman, who has a reputation for mounting vigorous media
misinformation campaigns on behalf of wealthy, unnamed clients.
Accordingly,
Berman ”never discloses his financial backers, allowing large, mainstream
companies to fund him without having to associate their brand names with his
sharp-elbowed approach,“ according to the Nov. 3, 2007, Las Vegas Sun.
It is an
insult to the hard-working men and women of Kentucky that someone like
Berman would try to convince them that he, his organization and its rich
contributors are on the side of workers.
The Kentucky
backers of this propaganda include state Rep. Jim DeCesare, R-Rockville, who
sponsored the 2006 ”right-to-work-for-less“ bill.
What a joke. Wealthy businessmen, CEOs and anti-union
politicians — who have opposed unionization at their workplaces in the most
vigorous manner and support anti-union, anti-worker legislation — want us to
believe that they care about workers' rights to join a union.
A clear
example of why the Employee Free Choice Act is so needed is the 15-year
struggle by the nurses at Louisville's Norton Audubon Hospital to have a
union election free from harassment, intimidation, surveillance and other
illegal management tactics.
As The
Courier-Journal reported on July 24, ”the National Labor Relations Board has
issued a complaint charging Norton Audubon Hospital with coercing nurses to
vote against a union. The complaint alleges that hospital managers told
nurses that they could lose wages if a union came in and that they kept
pro-union nurses from distributing literature.“
It is long
past time that workers reject this wholesale undermining of their right to
collective bargaining to improve their living and working conditions and
support candidates who support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Don't be
fooled by the ads of these phony front groups. Their goal is to help
re-elect McConnell so he can continue blocking legislation critically
important to the workers of Kentucky and the nation.
Comments:
John Edwards cheated on his wife. The media found out about it. John
Edwards will not be attending the Democratic convention.
Rudy Giuliani used public funds to cheat on his wife and used city agencies
to cover his tracks. The media found out about it. Rudy Giuliani will be
delivering the keynote at the Republican convention.
DAILY GRILL
None this week
Quotes
of the Day
"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where --
I'll have them get to you." --after being asked how many houses he and his
wife, Cindy, own, interview with Politico, Las Cruces, N.M., Aug. 20, 2008
(Take a
Google Earth tour of the McCain residences)
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Recent Senate Votes
Senate is in recess
Recent House Votes
House is in recess
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HUMOR
"Nation, a few months back,
John McCain was asked whether he used a PC or a Mac. He said something
shocking [on screen: McCain saying he relies on wife Cindy for help with the
computer]. Which confirms a long-standing rumor that Cindy McCain is half
computer. Now, a lot of people have said a guy who can't use a computer is
the wrong person for the White House. Last time I checked, the president
only needs to know how to press one button." --Stephen Colbert
"And
now comes proof that McCain has learned to use a computer, because
evidently, he has plagiarized from the internets. Congressional
Quarterly reported this week that John McCain may have copied some
facts in a recent speech on the Georgian crisis from Wikipedia. I think it
should have been obvious when he referred to the country's leader as
President 404 Error: File Not Found." --Stephen Colbert
"Here's just one of the examples listed in the article. Listen to what John
McCain said about Georgia [on screen: McCain making a speech, and using
sentences that sound exactly like a Wikipedia entry on Georgia]. Now, here's
what Wikipedia's entry says on Georgia. 'One of the world's first nations to
adopt Christianity as an official religion.' Of course, McCain said
countries, Wikipedia said nations. But those words are interchangeable. Just
like Sunnis and Shiites." --Stephen Colbert
"Now, I think McCain getting his facts from Wikipedia is great news.
Wikipedia gets its facts from the American people, which means McCain is now
using the people's voice. Or at least lip-synching to it. Plus, the internet
can be a creepy place, but it's a lot less creepy than McCain's previous
source of foreign policy information, Joe Lieberman [on screen: an archived
speech by McCain in which Lieberman corrects him on Iran]. Ironically,
Lieberman often needs similar help when he gets confused about the
difference between Republicans and Democrats." --Stephen Colbert (Watch
video clip)
"A Republican politician form Idaho has endorsed
Barack Obama. The last time a Republican switched sides was in an
airport men's room."
--Craig Ferguson
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House Defenders of the Big Oil Agenda
House Conservatives Vote Against Release of Reserve Oil While Swimming
in Oil Contributions
By Daniel J. Weiss, Alexandra Kougentakis
See tables of how much representatives received in oil contributions both
over their careers and in 2008 and how they voted on the Consumer Energy
Supply Act, H.R. 6578.
Americans are burdened with the highest gasoline prices
ever. These debilitating prices have worsened consumer pain by
contributing to higher costs for food, clothing, and other essentials. They
can be traced back to record oil prices linked to demand growing faster than
supply, the relative
inelasticity of gasoline demand (people buy it regardless of cost), and
speculators driving up prices.
The fastest way to lower oil and gasoline prices is to significantly
increase supply by selling a
small amount of oil from the 97 percent full Strategic Petroleum
Reserve. This would also burst the speculative bubble by upending the
expectation that oil supplies will remain limited. Unfortunately, a minority
of conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives
blocked such a measure in a vote on July 24. Not surprisingly, these
same members received significantly more campaign cash from Big Oil
companies compared to supporters of selling a small amount of the oil in
storage. Oil companies have made record profits due to record prices. No
wonder their congressional defenders want high prices to continue.
Representatives Nick Lampson (D-TX), Ed Markey (D-MA), and John Barrow
(D-GA) introduced the Consumer Energy Supply Act,
H.R.6578,
which would require the sale of at least 60 million barrels of sweet crude
oil from the reserve, and eventually replace it with heavy crude. Although
it passed by 268-157,
it fell 16 votes short of the two-thirds majority required when bills are on
the suspension calendar.
Opponents of the bill argue that selling a small amount of our oil
reserves would harm national security and would not lower prices. Both
arguments don’t hold water.
The reserve has 707 million barrels of oil in it, with a capacity of 727
million barrels. Selling 60 million barrels will leave it 89 percent full,
and H.R. 6578 requires that oil companies replace the sold oil. Nonetheless,
Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) claimed that “draining the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve is short-sighted, foolish and hurts our national
security.”
The White House and other opponents claim that selling reserve oil won’t
lower prices. At a
press briefing presidential press secretary Dana Perino claimed: “What
we have seen in the past when people have tried to use the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve to affect price is that it hasn't worked.” In fact, her
boss President George W. Bush sold reserve oil after Hurricane Katrina in
2005, and it lowered gasoline prices. This move
saved families an average of $125 over 100 days. President Bush’s
father, President George H.W. Bush, sold reserve oil beginning on the eve of
the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Families then saved an average of $65 dollars
from lower gasoline prices.
Opponents of releasing this government oil have received average lifetime
contributions from oil and gas interests of $133,605. In contrast,
representatives who voted in favor of reducing current gas prices have
average lifetime contributions of $42,341. This 3-1 oil industry fundraising
advantage indicates that opponents of selling reserve oil have much more oil
industry support. It makes sense that these big oil allies would oppose the
sale of this oil since it would lower prices and therefore oil company
profits.
Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) falsely claimed that the bill would “drain
our nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.” He received $362,248 from the oil
industry in campaign contributions. Representative Boustany, who made the
above-mentioned remark about national security, received $281,530. And a
constituent of Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
wondered
whether his opposition to selling extra oil has “something to do with the
$45,000 in contributions he's received from Big Oil?”
Many of the opponents of selling some stockpiled oil instead favor the
expansion of offshore oil drilling in the protected Outer Continental Shelf.
This ignores the Department of Energy
analysis
that determined that opening the OCS to offshore drilling “would not have a
significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or
prices before 2030.” Three of every four barrels of oil offshore of the
United States are in areas already available for drilling.
Selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to promptly increase
supplies and decrease prices is a short-term fix for record prices. For the
long term, the
most effective policies would decrease the use of oil by making vehicles
go significantly further on a gallon of gas, develop sustainable alternative
fuels, and dramatically increase the affordability and accessibility of
public transit.
Enhanced fuel-efficiency standards would significantly reduce oil
consumption, yet House Republican leaders
blocked enhanced fuel economy standards from 1995 to 2006, and many
opposed them in 2007. Had the House not defeated a 2001 bipartisan proposal
to make light trucks like SUVs meet the same standards as passenger
vehicles, Americans would be using 1 million barrels of oil per day less in
2008.
Better fuel economy standards or immediate relief due to the sale of
reserve oil are not the only energy measures that most of these members
opposed. They also voted against requiring oil companies to develop the oil
leases that they already posses, reining in speculators who have driven up
oil prices to make a quick buck, and ending tax breaks for big oil and
investing the money in clean energy. These members have chosen “none of the
above”—except for drilling in protected coastal areas—for their energy
policy.
With gasoline prices still near record highs, President Bush and Congress
must act to provide immediate help to lower pump prices. The only policy
that would accomplish this goal quickly is selling some of our extra oil in
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. As prices drop, the real work of
investments in super-efficient cars, non-oil fuels, public transit,
efficiency, and clean energy must begin in earnest to prevent a recurrence
of skyrocketing prices and promote the sensible policies for energy
Americans want.
Think Fast
None this week
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INTERESTING
If you want to know why it's going to be next to impossible for Focus on
the Family's James Dobson to publicly support John
McCain (R) -- at least in a manner that he can straight-face -- you
need only look at the condemning statement of McCain that Dobson issued in
2000:
February 17, 2000, Thursday
Dr. James Dobson's Statement on Gary Bauer's Endorsement of Senator McCain
DATELINE: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 17
Speaking as a private individual and not as the president of Focus on the
Family, Dr. James Dobson expressed disagreement yesterday with former
presidential candidate Gary Bauer's endorsement of Senator John McCain as
Republican nominee for U.S. President. The Senator has offered no
assurances that he intends to appoint a pro-life running mate or pro-life
justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Indeed, he voted for pro-abortion
Stephen Breyer and pro-abortion ACLU-activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg for that
Court and for David Satcher for Surgeon General, who supports
partial-birth-abortion. McCain also voted in support of President Clinton
to expand fetal-tissue research.
Furthermore, McCain has accepted huge contributions from the gambling
industry and apparently is comfortable with the proliferation of gambling
in American society. He has also accepted large contributions from
producers of alcohol. McCain is in favor of combat assignments for women
in the military, and has sought and received enormous financial and
political support from the Log Cabin Republicans and other homosexual
activists. McCain also supports Most Favored Nation status for the brutal
regime in China, and voted against our nation's monitoring of Communist
Chinese commercial fronts operating in the United States. He seeks to
appease the bloated Federal public school bureaucracy and has refused to
support vouchers.
"The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man
of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to his
first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal with four
other senators. He was eventually reprimanded by the Congress for the
'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly has a violent temper
and can be extremely confrontational and profane when angry. These red
flags about Senator McCain's character are reminiscent of the man who now
occupies the White House."
Gary Bauer's endorsement of the Senator is troubling for another reason.
When Clarence Thomas was being considered for Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court, Mr. Bauer actively championed his candidacy. However, Warren
Rudman who is John McCain's National Campaign Chairman and his most likely
choice for U.S. Attorney General was a pro-abortion Senator who opposed
confirmation of Clarence Thomas, despite the fact that he voted for him in
order to get three federal judgeships approved. He said about the Thomas
decision, "It's a vote I'm not proud of."
Given these concerns about McCain, it is difficult to understand how Gary
Bauer can support him "with great pride and with absolutely no
reservation."
This statement is not intended to imply Dr. Dobson's endorsement of anyone
else's candidacy for the presidency -- simply to clarify his lack of
support for Senator McCain.
SOURCE Dr. James Dobson
The biggest problem that Dobson would have in backing McCain, which he
has recently hinted at, is that the reasons he castigated him in 2000 --
adultery, Keating Five, ethics, violent temper, profane behavior, courting
the Log Cabin Republicans, stem cell research, and his acceptance of
gambling and alcohol money -- haven't gone away. McCain still has those same
character flaws and though he rivals Mitt Romney (R) when it comes to the
speed of his flip-flops, even McCain hasn't shifted on all the issues that
Dobson cares deeply about.
We'll soon find out if Dobson is really a man of principle or just
another political hack that drapes himself in religious clothing in hopes of
electing more Republicans.
Yesterday on his radio show, right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh said
it’s “striking how unqualified Obama is and how this whole thing came about
within the Democrat Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that
nobody had the guts to stand up and
say no to a black guy.” Limbaugh continued:
I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative
action has reared its ugly head against them. It’s the reverse of
it. They’ve, they’ve ended up nominating and placing at the top of their
ticket somebody who’s not qualified, who has not earned it. […]
It’s perfect affirmative action. And because of all
this guilt and the historic nature of things, nobody had the guts to say,
well, wait a minute, do we really want to do this?
Media Matters has the
audio.
Buy American Mention of
the Week
Dreaming of Made in USA
Forever
Should we accept endless
Chinese products and the resulting trade deficits or is it possible we can
return to the days when American-made products were in greater supply and
easier to find? Todd Lipscomb, founder of
www.MadeInUSAForever.com, thinks that even as multinationals continue to
outsource there are many smaller companies who simply will not give up on
America, and he believes some of these will become the next core of U.S.
manufacturing. Let’s certainly hope so.
At
www.MadeInUSAForever.com you’ll find over 500 American-made products to
browse over, and there are plans to double the number of items in the next
few months, so don’t think one visit to the website will reveal everything
that will ever be available.
I could give you a long
list of American-made jeans, shorts, shirts, blankets and toys that can be
found on the website. But what surprised me about the wide range of products
offered were the types of things I have often struggled to find made in
America at times myself, and even things that I haven’t sought out in
particular but happily found from the made-in-USA variety.
Ever wondered where you
might find an American-made wallet, or possibly an American-made pillow?
It’s doubtful you’ll find either in most retail stores. If you’re looking
for cushion insoles to put an extra spring in your step, don’t buy the
Chinese-made Dr. Scholl’s cushion insoles. Get the Ener-Gel
cushion insoles from MadeinUSAForever.com to slip inside your American-made
SAS or New Balance shoes!
You’ll also find other
products that you probably thought weren’t available from domestic sources
like clothing for kids, infants and toddlers, sporting goods items like
soccer, hockey and lacrosse goals (free shipping), and handy tools like
extension cords and fluorescent “Stubby II” work lights. You can even find
American-made roller rings for your shower curtain. And don’t forget about
the patriotic section of the website where you can buy American-made flags
and other items that proudly display our flag’s image. Or you can do like I
did and order an American-made hat sporting the Made In
USA Forever.com logo for just $12.95.
Equally interesting if
not more so are the events that led up to the beginning of the
www.MadeInUSAForever.com website. Owner Todd Lipscomb was making a good
salary working in Asia for hard drive maker Western Digital, but some of
what he saw bothered him because of the potential negative impact on
America’s future in the areas of trade, worker safety, and product safety.
He saw America’s wealth and productive capacity shrinking while our trade
deficit with other countries was expanding. That compelled him to leave his
job and start a business that would help America’s financial position
relative to the rest of the world and create and keep jobs here at home.
Not only can you get
free shipping on select items at
www.MadeInUSAForever.com, but your order will likely go out in the mail
to you the next business day. That’s because most of the inventory is stored
on-site, as opposed to just passing your order onto someone else for them to
ship at a later date.
At MadeinUSAForever.com,
the belief is that there is a passionate grassroots movement of consumers
from every walk of life who want American-made products. It doesn’t
necessarily matter if you’re on the political left, political right, a
liberal, a conservative, an environmentalist, a rancher or farmer, or if you
live in an urban or rural climate. The very diversity of the people in our
nation is the reason why Made In USA Forever.com
has a diverse selection of products to choose from no matter where it is in
America that you call home.
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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 US News
& World Report among many other publications.
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NEWS
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