Tribune Exclusive: Presidential candidate visits Greensboro, Mooresville area
By Jon Mayhew, Editor Lincoln Tribune
Lincolnton - U.S. Congressional representative and presidential candidate Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is visiting North Carolina today to campaign for tighter border security, high-paying textile jobs coming back to America and stronger military defense.
He’s planning on stopping at a hosiery mill in the Greensboro-Burlington area before going to Mooresville.
Hunter said part of his campaign is based on making other countries play by the rules of fair trade.
“One of the cornerstones of my campaign is bringing back high-paying manufacturing jobs to the U.S.,” said Hunter. “China is cheating, undercutting American products and sending jobs overseas.”
Part of playing fair relates to taxation. Hunter said American manufacturers are double taxed here in America while overseas competitors aren’t taxed when their goods are shipped to this country.
“They get their taxes refunded to them when they ship,” said Hunter, adding when products are shipped from America to overseas destinations, these products are taxed by the receiving country.
Hunter added that he’s worried America is also losing the once strong “arsenal of democracy” -- a term coined during the FDR administration -- which is manufacturing serving the military needs of the country in times of war.
He cited World War II as a prime example.
During the war, Ford Motor Company built a bomber aircraft every 60 minutes while Chrysler built tanks. The industrial base, said Hunter, made machinery and war material faster than anyone which helped America gain victory.
Things, however, have changed over the last five decades. According to Hunter, the arsenal isn’’t as strong as it should be.
“In a recent search for high grade armor steel plats for vehicles in Iraq, I could only find one company in America that could make that material,” said Hunter.
Besides campaigning to make other countries play by the rules of fair trade, Hunter said he wants immigrants to play by the rules when coming to this country.
“I wrote legislation that extended the San Diego fence through Texas,” said Hunter. “The House and Senate passed the law last October. Right now, the administration has built only 13 miles of one layer of the fence.”
The legislation called for 850-plus miles of fence; the Senate knocked the length of the fence in half.
“The Senate bill would leave New Mexico and Texas wide open to smuggling,” said Hunter. “There’s not a senator on the floor who can explain that one.”
Hunter added that President Bush has “the wrong position” on illegal immigration and border control.
“I support the President in many areas, but here he’s wrong,” said Hunter. “Amnesty would provoke a stampede of our borders by 12 million people who think they’re going to get in under the wire.”
Hunter added the people here now were told to stop coming after the first amnesty.
Hunter said as president, he would ensure America would have strong conventional forces, bring jobs back to America and fight against illegal aliens.
“America is due for a new sunrise of opportunity, faith and freedom,” said Hunter. “My commitment is to maintain peace through a strong military, bring back high paying manufacturing jobs by forcing compliance by China and I will further enforce U.S. borders by completing the border fence, ensuring people knock on the front door when they want to come in to our country.”
For more information on Duncan Hunter’s campaign, visit the Web site www.gohunter08.com.
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Tribune Exclusive: Presidential candidate visits Greensboro, Mooresville area 
