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Old 12-31-2010, 05:41 PM
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Annie Oakley
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I don't begrudge a farmer a good price on his crop! I just hope all Americans "buy American" every chance they get.

I'll gladly pay a little more to make sure my neighbor or my fellow citizens have a way of earning a decent living. I have friends who have been laid off by 6 & 7 cotton mills (losing all their company retirement funds each time) just because their jobs were sent overseas.

Roger Milliken (Mr. Textile) died yesterday, and he was a great patriot. When one of his South Carolina mills was closed and eventually demolished, he ordered an upper story wall knocked out of the mill, then ordered fork lift drivers to carry all the machinery to the edge and drop it over the side, utterly destroying them. He refused to sell his machinery at bargain prices to the Asian competitors who were crippling the American textile industry and taking decent jobs from American workers.
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