Soon, Old Glory will have to be born in the land of the free and not merely flying over it.
Congress has passed a proposal to require the federal government to purchase only American flags that have been completely manufactured in the U.S. The U.S. imports millions of American flags from overseas, mostly from China, and the sponsors of the proposal said it’s time for American flags to originate in the country they represent.
Supporters of the proposal, led by Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, said the change is more than just symbolic — they believe it will support American jobs and manufacturers while preserving the nation’s most recognized banner.
Hello young person, do you know why you should care about the government? Me neither. JFC can we address something that actually matters you fucking empty uniforms. Sorry. Great share, and thanks!
Yeah but take the small wins where you can get them. This is a good thing and we should celebrate even if for a short moment.
No. Don’t celebrate performative bullshit. Especially if it’s wrapped in nationalism. Because then all you’ll ever get is performative bullshit wrapped in nationalism. You take this, put it in your pocket, say thanks, and pick the pitch fork right back up.
my grandfather heard that crock of horse shit his whole childhood and when he grew into an adult he told his kids the same lie
Baby steps we will get there on small victories.
am not telling my kids the same lie
shit does not get better because some less than quarter ass solution got implemented
I hope you never have kids if you’re going to tell them they have nothing to look forward to.
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Nobody needs foreign propaganda when Congress feeds us literal crumbs as the answer to offshoring. Yay we created 10 jobs. This is the fucking Senate. Not a random Appalachian county council.
“nothing short of a revolutionary war is progress”
There is a wide wide gap between a revolution and requiring companies headquartered here to hire 51 percent of their staff from the US.
Bingo.
they believe it will support American jobs and manufacturers
What, like 3 jobs?
They will probably be made by slaves, I mean prisoners.
To be fair, it is extremely weird to imagine the U.S. government buying U.S. flags from China. Like, I’m not some patriot flag-code respecting type, but it does feel like a powerful metaphor to be importing our symbol of freedom from abroad. It’s some severely bad optics at a minimum.
Sounds very american to me.
Yep, even giving a shit where a piece of cloth was made is fucking weird
but it does feel like a powerful metaphor to be importing our symbol of freedom from abroad
Freedom to buy from the lowest cost provider!
I remember all the cheap Chinese bumper stickers that people were slapping on their cars…an American flag with the words “THESE COLORS DON’T RUN”
Within a couple months most of the flag color had faded. It was so funny seeing a light pink and blue American flag with that contradictory phrase over it.
It will support one company that gets the GSA contract.
We have so much shit going on in this country and this is what we’re worried about?
Ohio, Maine, come get your senators. They’re drunk.
Senator Brown is a great senator and literally the only statewide Democrat we have other than a few state Supreme Court justices (who will be out soon now that Republicans added party affiliation to the court ballot). He will be far better for America than Bernie Moreno.
I know nothing about Senator Brown other than this bill. At any rate it passed so they’re certainly not alone.
I didn’t realize this is how it worked, where can i pick up Mr. Vance? I have some choice words for him
Oh just ask the secret service. It’s like a daycare situation. They’re literally just waiting for a parent or guardian to show up.
Ohio senators are probably high, it’s legal.
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I read your comment as “hanging tractors” and for the split second I was confused as hell.
Apparently the mods are fucking confused, too, somehow thinking that it’s not okay to follow the law when it comes to treason.
It’s like they know that one of our major problems is that capitalists have destroyed all our manufacturing and sent all of our production jobs overseas thus weakening our economy our society and our National Defense. Yet instead of doing anything about it they just do this thumb their nose bill that does nothing. Kind of like a fuck you to the entire country.
Fine. Then China will produce 99.98% of the flag and an American factory will put 2 stitches and a “Made in America” tag on it.
So you didn’t read the article and are just making shit up in your head? Got it.
Even with current rules, 50% of the flag has to be American made.
Typical.
Why did I think this was already a thing?
Millions of people dying on the street.
The government: lets play with flags!
When talking about bizarre American obsession with flags… :
So many damn flags here. I’d rather not have the flag of a country that’s teetering on the edge of fascism flying everywhere, thanks.
I feel like all this is going to do is raise government costs and line the pockets of selected contractors. We aren’t always going to be the relative best producers in cost/quality balance for every product and service.
If we’re going to subsidize any industry, it should be done directly and explicitly. Otherwise, it becomes another example of “inefficient” government that should be privatized.
Protectionism. The word you’re looking for where we just mandate domestic manufacturing is protectionism. And there’s a lot written about how bad it is.
“Oh… okay. But did you want to do anything about that giant list of actual REAL problems over there behind you on the table?”
