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RB TexLa

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31. Go to one in Toronto and tell them they

Fri Apr 3, 2020, 04:06 PM

Apr 2020

Can’t buy from a company that does business in their country and they’ve been buying from for years. Tell them if they were Americans you’d consider letting them.

Guess you could explain Americans want you to buy from 3M and other companies in the US until it’s necessary to help keep you alive and then we only care about ourselves.

Kinda like having two fire hoses. Guess you’d use both on your burning house and IF you get your fire out in time maybe you’ll let your neighbor use one on what’s left of their burning house.

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The Defense Production Act should not be used to prevent exports during a pandemic [View all] RB TexLa Apr 2020 OP

What an assinine thing to say. So you are fine with our HCW's dying as they go without protection? hlthe2b Apr 2020 #1

It sounds like you are the one defending the trump administration telling 3M they can't export to RB TexLa Apr 2020 #4

SHAME ON YOU! hlthe2b Apr 2020 #5

For thinking health care workers in other countries matter as much as ones in the US RB TexLa Apr 2020 #6

For putting the lives of those who will have to save YOU at risk, YES. hlthe2b Apr 2020 #7

So people should only care about people who will be doing things for them and no one else? RB TexLa Apr 2020 #11

YOU are defending Trump's PROFITEERING--not the notion of sending surplus help to others hlthe2b Apr 2020 #12

trump is the one stopping 3M from selling to their customers outside of the US. You are defending RB TexLa Apr 2020 #14

Trump is the one exporting critical goods for profit and reimporting from Asia and Russia for hlthe2b Apr 2020 #15

These sales were going to be to Canada the respirators were not going to be sold back to anyone here RB TexLa Apr 2020 #19

Guess what? NO ONE is saying they are not as valuable. BUT YOU ARE DEFENDING PROFITEERING hlthe2b Apr 2020 #20

This is an international list which, if anything, Ms. Toad Apr 2020 #9

We don't have SUPLUS! That's the point. As a HCW on the lines, my colleagues and I are shocked hlthe2b Apr 2020 #10

We don't have an across the board surplus - definitely. Ms. Toad Apr 2020 #18

No surplus emphasizes the need to restrict exports. THAT DOES NOT EQUATE TO not wishing to hlthe2b Apr 2020 #21

Of Course It Should, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #2

I think the answer lies in between genxlib Apr 2020 #3

"if they truly have needs that outweigh ours" left-of-center2012 Apr 2020 #8

Immediate followed by "(which does not seem to be the case here)" genxlib Apr 2020 #22

So what you are saying is because we are not in a soldier to soldier war GemDigger Apr 2020 #13

That is EXACTLY what he is saying. Contemptible. hlthe2b Apr 2020 #16

Deplorable. GemDigger Apr 2020 #25

Are you economically libertarian? Cirque du So-What Apr 2020 #17

Contemptible. Go to the local ER and try to make this argument to workers there drray23 Apr 2020 #23

Go to one in Toronto and tell them they RB TexLa Apr 2020 #31

Imma disagree witcha there, Dawg. Happy Hoosier Apr 2020 #24

Bingo. nt crickets Apr 2020 #26

Yep, we are not at war with other countries, particularly poor countries. "America First" sucks. Hoyt Apr 2020 #27

Jared Kushner is hiring nt msongs Apr 2020 #28

They are the ones stopping 3M from selling to their Canadian and Latin American customers RB TexLa Apr 2020 #29

Sweet how you stick your head out every so often Lars39 Apr 2020 #30

Sure it should. That's what it is there for. Make sure our front-liners have what they need jmg257 Apr 2020 #32