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cause Obama did? A new "Buy American" push in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan is sparking protests about protectionism from US trading partners.
Passage of the 819 billion dollar economic stimulus package Wednesday by the US House of Representatives raised hackles in Europe and Canada, the United States's biggest trading partner.
Obama has pushed for swift passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as vital to prevent the collapse of the US economy, reeling from the global financial crisis that has thwarted governments' unprecedented actions to ease the turmoil.
The legislation's package of tax cuts and spending has moved to the Senate, where lawmakers are working on their own version of the plan.
The bulk of the bill's spending is aimed at bringing aging infrastructure into the 21st century to preserve and improve the country's long-term competitiveness in the global economy, creating millions of jobs in the process.
I wish all the other countries would make up their minds and then shut the hell up.
Passage of the 819 billion dollar economic stimulus package Wednesday by the US House of Representatives raised hackles in Europe and Canada, the United States's biggest trading partner.
Obama has pushed for swift passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as vital to prevent the collapse of the US economy, reeling from the global financial crisis that has thwarted governments' unprecedented actions to ease the turmoil.
The legislation's package of tax cuts and spending has moved to the Senate, where lawmakers are working on their own version of the plan.
The bulk of the bill's spending is aimed at bringing aging infrastructure into the 21st century to preserve and improve the country's long-term competitiveness in the global economy, creating millions of jobs in the process.
I wish all the other countries would make up their minds and then shut the hell up.