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Congressional intervention helped Hoist win a contract over Doosan is this fair. Hoist say's it will help American jobs but surely Doosan has American employees. Doosan will pay taxes in US so why should congress intervene to help Hoist.The contract was four four 16,000kg truck what if Hyster of Yale had won the contract would the same intervention of come because these are American owned brands ,but the trucks are made in Holland. How far can this go will Americans only buy American products ,will Chinese only buy from there local companies and will Europe do the same, If this was to happen what type of mess would we end up with
  • Posted 28 Oct 2011 03:34
  • By Daveilift
  • joined 26 Oct'10 - 241 messages
  • west yorks, United Kingdom

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