Monday, June 13, 2011

Modest proposal. Get protectionist with our defense spending.

Its time. 

Time to get protectionist with US defense spending.

We might not have the best product for a given task.

We might not have the best gear for our troops.

But it needs to be American made.  I'm a fan of the CV90.  I'm a fan of the Patria AMV.  I'm a fan of the Force Protection Europe Ocelot.

But our defense dollars need to be spent on and for US products.  Sad fact.  We are the biggest market in the world and every corporation in the world is trying to wiggle in on it.  Sad fact.  If we had even a semi functioning Attorney General Office, then all these mergers/acquisitions wouldn't have gone through.  We're allowing legalized monopolies that are destroying our defense base.  Sad fact.  Our gear will get the job done.  There is no need to go overseas for it.

Its time to play this game the way the Chinese, Europeans and other countries around the globe play it.  Free Trade is free for some but not for the US.  Want a strange take on things?  Read the Early Warning Blog.  On one of his posts he speaks up mightily for the Beechcraft product in the USAF light attack program vs. the offering from Embraer. 

What is that except protectionism?

Its mainstream and its right.  Time to protect US industry.