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So, who's the donor friend who owns flag manufacturing facilities?

Hello young person, do you know why you should care about the government? Me neither. JFC can we address something that actually matters you fucking empty uniforms. Sorry. Great share, and thanks!

they believe it will support American jobs and manufacturers

What, like 3 jobs?

I remember all the cheap Chinese bumper stickers that people were slapping on their cars....an American flag with the words "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN"

Within a couple months most of the flag color had faded. It was so funny seeing a light pink and blue American flag with that contradictory phrase over it.

To be fair, it is extremely weird to imagine the U.S. government buying U.S. flags from China. Like, I'm not some patriot flag-code respecting type, but it does feel like a powerful metaphor to be importing our symbol of freedom from abroad. It's some severely bad optics at a minimum.

How about we just fly fewer flags. I live in the center of the US and don't need to be reminded by every public building, car lot, and bigot's house of what country I live in.

Official federal and state buildings, those are fine.

The current number of congresspersons, 435, was created in 1913. In the 1920 census the US population was 29,662,053.

29,662,053/435 ~= in 1913 there were 68,188 persons per member of Congress.

In 2020 the population was 331,449,281

331,449,281/435 ~= in 2020 there were 761,952 persons per member of Congress.

One person can't represent three quarters of a million people in a national assembly. That isn't representation.

If memory serves, I believe GOP Senator Susan Collins was the one who exercised great skill in brow furrowing - and nothing further - when expressing disapproval over felon Drink Bleach's reckless behavior.

It will support one company that gets the GSA contract.

We have so much shit going on in this country and this is what we're worried about?

Ohio, Maine, come get your senators. They're drunk.

It's like they know that one of our major problems is that capitalists have destroyed all our manufacturing and sent all of our production jobs overseas thus weakening our economy our society and our National Defense. Yet instead of doing anything about it they just do this thumb their nose bill that does nothing. Kind of like a fuck you to the entire country.

I don't get why people are tilted about this. The government should always buy US made unless the item literally cannot be found from a US manufacturer.

Tax payer money should stay in the country when possible. Yeah it's a small issue but I doubt much time was spent on this

Well thank fuck they've started addressing such important issues.

Capitalism. Until we don’t like particular ramifications of capitalism and then we legislate nationalisation of particular industries….because.

Truly the invisible hand of the market at work.

On its surface that's not a horrible position for a government to take.

It's not unreasonable for the national government (in any country) to give some level of local preference to all procurement, not only something symbolic like flags. That would actually incentivize companies to onshore more of their manufacturing - or at least slow down their offshoring.

What?

Flags being born?

What?

Why did I think this was already a thing?

Fine. Then China will produce 99.98% of the flag and an American factory will put 2 stitches and a "Made in America" tag on it.

When talking about bizarre American obsession with flags... :

https://lemmy.world/post/17511734

You know what, for context for anyone late to the discourse.

All of this is about a bill passing through the Senate for the manufacturer of the government bought flags to go from 50% American manufactured materials to 100%.

Enjoy the ride.