The US government has a buy American policy but I was told by a government employee who makes purchases for his department that they routinely get around that by making the specifications of an item that goes out for bid such that only one manufacturers product meets all the specification requirements. That is done even when there are plenty of other products including American made products that would do the job just as well. Those are government employees being paid with American workers hard earned tax dollars. People like that are practically traitors, but believe me the practice is wide spread throughout all government agencies.
The US government has a buy American policy but I was told by a government employee who makes purchases for his department that they routinely get around that by making the specifications of an item that goes out for bid such that only one manufacturers product meets all the specification requirements. That is done even when there are plenty of other products including American made products that would do the job just as well. Those are government employees being paid with American workers hard earned tax dollars. People like that are practically traitors, but believe me the practice is wide spread throughout all government agencies.
ReplyDeleteIt's been that way forever. Sad, isn't it?
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