Your tax dollars at work, sort of….

The U.S. government spends more than $1.5 billion a year buying clothing that's made overseas. That's a shocker to me.

I'm not a simplistic advocate of "Buy American," but 1,500,000,000 is a lot of greenbacks going into the pockets of workers and factory owners outside the United States.

What's the government buying?  You name it—uniforms for airport security officers, those olive shirts the forest rangers wear, the camouflage outfits worn by military personnel, stuff like that.

So, the New York Times (December 23, 2013) says, Uncle Sam is one of the world's biggest purchasers of clothing.

Government purchasing agents are chasing the best price around the world, conceptually there's nothing wrong with that.

But in our current economic distress, I'm thinking we'd be better off if a lot of that $1.5 billion were spent right here in the states.

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