Originally Posted by
GlassMan
While I agree that saving tax payer dollars is important, another aim of every government should providing prosperity and good jobs for its own citizens. In this case, if a good quality product can be made and has been made in your own country for generations, then it makes more sense to me to spend the small amount of extra money to keep your citizens at work than it would be to pay even more for unemployment payments after their firm shuts down.
It's definitely possible to be penny-wise and pound-foolish in these situations. Personally, I think that a government, any government, should be required to purchase from a company based and operating within its own borders. Only if there is simply not a local industry or if that industry is so small that it cannot meet the government's needs should it look outside its borders. It's good to save taxpayer's dollars, but it's even better to save taxpayer jobs and keep them as taxpayers instead of welfare recipients.
Yeah, what Phil said! 
Dee
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