re: #540 n in wi

To that point,I’ve wondered why we cannot be allowed to drill,refine and use our own oil. not on National lands,anyway. Something that would add to the world supplies and reduce the price.
Yet it seems preferable that we mine and refine our own steel. And put a tariff on imported steel. Something that raises the price.
I believe the Stimulus bill requires U.S. steel on all it’s projects.
Hypocrisy at it’s finest.

Usually when someone advocates tariffs or boycotts against certain countries, they have no damned clue what they are talking about economically. It’s interesting (and scary) when you read about the history of mercantilism and then look at what our own Congress advocates during a recession. You are absolutely right about that hypocrisy, but then again this all comes down to control. Mercantilism was refined and perfected under the absolutist state of Louis XIV. It was the perfect system for gold-standard absolutist monarchies, but it’s a terrible system for a paper currency global economic juggernaut like the US, so why the hell do the Congresscritters advocate it? Control.