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Rick Perry Vetoes “Buy American” Bill Approved 145-0 by Texas House

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  1. KingCheetah

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    Rick Perry Vetoes “Buy American” Bill Approved 145-0 by Texas House

    Rare is it that you get true bipartisan support on anything political these days, but that’s exactly what happened a few days ago when the Texas Senate and House sent the “Buy American” bill to Governor Rick Perry’s desk.

    Passing the Senate by a vote of 23-7 and the House 145-0, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill meant to give preference to American-made goods for purchase by the State of Texas when they are of equal cost and quality to foreign-made products.

    In other words, if an American-made product and foreign-made product are of equal quality and cost, when the state is purchasing a good or service, the state would always give preference to the American-made product or service.

    96% of Texas legislators supported the “Buy American” bill…

    Now tell me there’s not something very wrong when a bill is supported by 96% of a state’s legislators, yet gets vetoed by the governor.

    Then again, this has nothing to do with buying American, supporting American-made products and creating American jobs. The only thing Rick Perry cares about is his ability to give contracts to his big corporate buddies who use cheap international labor and outsource American jobs.

    This also follows his recent veto of a GOP-backed disclosure bill, which would have forced social welfare groups that spend more than $25,000 a year on political expenses to disclose contributions that exceed $1,000.

    Again, the disclosure bill was a Republican sponsored and supported bill.

    And I won’t even get into his continued stance on denying millions of Texans living in poverty health care by avoiding provisions in the Affordable Care Act. That’s a subject for another day.

    But this is exactly what Republicans asked for, and it proudly displays the sheep-like voting by many conservatives.

    You really can’t be shocked by his behavior. After all, what did conservatives expect? This is a man who publicly slammed the 2009 stimulus bill, while privately using money from that very same stimulus to balance his state’s budget.

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    #1 KingCheetah, May 30, 2013
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    Gig 'em, pointy. :rolleyes:
     
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    Links to Burnt Orange Report, so no bias there.
     
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    Yeah, the slant of the commentary is obvious , but no changing the vote count.
     
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    Can't the legislature override the veto? I thought the Tex Governorship was pretty weak given its past history.
     
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    Texas is pretty much Perry's personal fiefdom.
     
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    per http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/2_8_5.html


    I believe they adjourned just days ago and were called into special session for the gerrymandering, I mean, redistricting, so I doubt he will call special session to override his veto... but I'm spitballing here.
     
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    So when is Perry up for reelection?
     
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    Largest international border in the country, top 3 shipping port, state economy based on a globally priced, shipped and traded good. I am very much with Gov. Perry on this one.
     
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    Is there a committee that decides on the quality of every thing the state buys?

    This is typical top down, protectionist, command and control garbage. The reason Texas is booming is because we interfere minimally with the buying and selling of things.
     
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    1) There are no two products that are equally alike in price or quality. All one company needs to do is drop their price just a bit to get around this.
    2) In the event that there are, why do you need a law to state which one you need to buy?
    3) This is a terrible precedent to set. First, its buy American. Next, it will be to buy Texan. Then it will be to buy from the poor unfortunate minorities. Then other countries will start doing similar things like this.

    Again, no two products are the same. This law will only be used for abuse.
     
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    Globalism is a race to the bottom.
     
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    Does the Texas state government spend so much that they can actually affect our import/export economy?
     
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    The answer to this question is always yes.
     
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    it's a race to value
     
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    Librul here: stupid laws are stupid. There is no mechanism to determine the origin of any product, a product could have the pieces manufactured by Asian children and assembled in the US. The complications for making a determination for the millions of products the State buys would stop State business cold. Who would make the determination that something is American enough, how many people would that take?

    I'd be all for the US Chamber of Commerce running a 'Buy American' campaign and making the lists... but they won't because they make more money marking up cheap Chinese products and not paying American labor and their mandated health benefits.
     
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    Laws like this already exist in this country.

    The troubling thing isn't necessarily the veto, as much as overruling nearly your entire legislature on a bi-partisan bill. It is his power, but jeez.
     
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    But jeez, stupid bill, is stupid. And all the people who voted for it can now tell their constituents that they voted for a bill to buy American. They all win.
     
    #18 bobmarley, May 31, 2013
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    Rick Perry actually did something good? Oh well. It was probably for the wrong reasons. Broken clock yadda yadda
     
    #19 Haymitch, May 31, 2013
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    Both this bill and Rick Perry are stupid. You don't make an efficient procurement function by legislating some one-size-fits-all rule. I can understand if people are frustrated that they can't break a legacy of cronyism, but this isn't the way to do it.
     
    #20 JuanValdez, May 31, 2013
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