Open Question: Why did John Kerry try to put a BUY AMERICAN clause in the Stimulus Bill, but buy a yatch made in New Zealand?

27 July 2010, 7:39 pm

New England boatbuilders are upset with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., for buying a $7 million New Zealand-built yacht while local builders struggle to find work. "Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder," Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats, told the Boston Herald. "If someone comes to build a $7 million boat, that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boatbuilding is such a critical component of our coastal economy." "The message is, 'The American boatbuilders aren't good enough and the Massachusetts people aren't good enough to maintain it.' It's just a bad message all around," said Connecticut boater Steve Potter, who docks in Charlestown, Mass. When asked to respond to criticism of Kerry's decision not to buy American, his state director Drew O'Brien said: "When it comes to creating and preserving jobs and economic opportunity in Massachusetts, no one has worked harder in Washington than John Kerry. Sen. Kerry is using smarts, clout and good old-fashioned hard work to make the Massachusetts economy grow and prosper." http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1270040 Just another example of 'do as I say, not as I do.'... Read More »

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