Breitbart News 9 Jul 2020
Joe Biden is taking a page from Barack Obama’s old playbook Thursday by proposing a $700 million ‘Buy American’ plan.
Economic nationalists stung by Obama’s betrayal of his similar promises in 2008 will be skeptical.
Biden is expected to release plans calling for a $400 billion, four-year increase in government purchasing of U.S.-based goods and services plus $300 billion in new research and development in U.S. technology concerns. Among other policies expected to be announced Thursday, he proposes tightening current “Buy American†laws that are intended to benefit U.S. firms but can be easily circumvented by government agencies.
That echoes a message that helped Obama and Biden win during the last recession. In the 2008 campaign, the Obama-Biden campaign ran “Buy American, Vote Obama†ads in states with large numbers of pro-labor voters. But that plan was scrapped just weeks after Obama took office.
“I think that would be a mistake right now,†Obama said in February 2009. “That is a potential source of trade wars that we can’t afford at a time when trade is sinking all across the globe.â€
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