Thompson toured North Bay Industries on Tuesday. The Rohnert Park company makes thousands of flags each year, mainly for the Department of Veteran Affairs, which was already required to source memorial flags made in the United States with American-only materials.
North Bay Industries is a vocational rehabilitation center dedicated to assisting mentally, physically, and developmentally disabled adults through participation in agency-sponsored training, housing, and employment programs.
Thompson had visited the Rohnert Park facility last year and found out that not all flags purchased by the military were being made in the US, which he said prompted the need for the legislation
美军士兵们不仅扛着国旗战斗,这些国旗还高悬在美军驻海外军事基地上,放在凯旋美军的行囊里,然而这些美国星条旗却常常是由中国制造。
这让北湾(North Bay)民主党国会议员麦克·汤普森(Mike Thompson)深受刺激,他写信给美国立法机构要求美国国防部(Dod)购买的星条旗必须是百分之百美国制造。这个提议现在已经变成了法律,国旗的购买成为了美国2017年综合拨款法案的一部分。
汤普森说到:“国防部会购买外国生产的美国国旗,我想这真是耸人听闻,但这也很能说明问题,因为美国需要制造更多的国旗。”
军队使用美国本土生产的国旗法案已被通过,但与之相似的一项要求所有由政府购买的国旗也必须产自美国的提案却屡屡未能得到批准,要改变现状可不是易事,因为中国产的星条旗要比美国产的便宜很多。
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