re: #357 Honorary Yooper

It does seem like Obama stole Hoover’s and FDR’s playbooks and is now trying them out again on us.

Exactly. Cases in point - Smoot-Hawley in Hoover’s day, “Buy American” component of the stimulus bill. Holding agriculture prices up artificially in FDR’s day; holding housing prices up artificially (with the mortgage package) today. Increasing taxed on the “rich” in FDR’s day….oops.