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\nGordon Parks Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Football practice<\/b> 1943<\/center>
<\/center>Here\u2019s a delicious little rant from Dr. D., by now a regular contributor at the Automatic Earth.<\/p>\n

<\/center>Dr. D: <\/b><\/i>The schizophrenia surrounding the tariff plan is really startling. But then I could just say, \u201cthe level of insanity everywhere is startling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Self-avowed schmartz-guys are all \u201cdoesn\u2019t the U.S. know their empire is failing and everybody is cutting them off? What are they thinking starting trade wars with allies and raising prices???\u201d Stop. So your argument is the U.S. is losing its influence, other nations are about to cut it off and end the trade deficit, and thereby basically halt imports? While the U.S. has no internal manufacturing? And your argument here is that, not if but when the world cuts us off we a) would like to have some steel and aluminum to build factories, washing machines and tanks or b) do NOT want to have access to the basic raw materials of society? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry that this generation burned down the factory, then retreated to the mansion, sold off and burned all the furniture there too, then ran up the credit card with cocaine and heroin parties while yelling \u201cI\u2019m a rock star! I\u2019m a Contender!\u201d, but they did. Now there are only bad decisions, like the ones real adults have.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s nothing but work to put that factory back up, and that\u2019s going to cost something, in this case, money and higher prices, using the thousand-year method of protective tariffs. Why not? Europe has 25% tariffs. China has a virtual lockout. If the U.S. machine then also has higher real wages for U.S. workers they can afford the tariffs. I mean, what\u2019s their counterargument? If it\u2019s better to not have steel and aluminum, perhaps we should shut down the few remaining foundries and have NO materials? I mean, if a little is bad, surely none is way better.<\/p>\n

Mish for example thinks this way: if China is willing to give us cheap, under-market steel we should take it. No, not if you want to have a country, you don\u2019t. Isn\u2019t it a matter of national security to be able to make tanks, ships, railroads, and artillery? There\u2019s more to the world than money.<\/p>\n

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Gordon Parks Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Football practice 1943Here\u2019s a delicious little rant from Dr. D., by now a regular contributor at the Automatic Earth. Dr. D: The schizophrenia surrounding the tariff plan is really startling. But then I could just say, \u201cthe level of insanity everywhere is startling.\u201d Self-avowed schmartz-guys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19339,1938,2557,19343,19340,15618,19341,13924,712,10105,9937,5177,19342,848],"class_list":["post-32520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-adams","tag-aluminum","tag-community","tag-dr-d","tag-franklin","tag-opioids","tag-pedophiles","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-security","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-tytler","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32521,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions\/32521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}