Where are champions of Buy American?

I was never so angry as I was when I was Christmas shopping this season. Gift items made in the United States were almost impossible to find. Nobody is championing the only cause that is going to save our economy: buy American-made goods from American-owned factories. Green jobs are a farce and a long time off.

Where are the leaders in manufacturing, the politicians we elected, the labor leaders we look up to fight for me and you and the millions of people without jobs who used to make goods in the United States?

Four phrases would cure most problems:

l Buy American, for obvious reasons.

l Reciprocity, meaning do unto others as they are doing unto us through greed, trade deals and government subsidies

l Tariffs so there would be a level playing field when foreign workers get low wages and foreign factories get subsidies by their government.

l Protectionism, anything that damages our ability to compete internationally.

The last two were good enough 100 years ago. We need them as much today as we did then when there wasn't product dumping into the U.S. market and tax subsidies to send jobs elsewhere.

There seems to be no differences between Democrats and Republicans on this issue. Why is nobody in D.C. saying anything about Buy U.S. goods?

Frank Reynolds

Marion