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made in America by American citizens; every refrigerator, every TV, every computer, every dishwasher, every washer and dryer sold in America to be manufactured in America, by American citizens. The manufacturing companies can
be foreign-owned, and I hope they would be wildly profitable to encourage more
investment. However, all jobs must be filled by American citizens.
What this would do is take the $400 billion (approx.) per year that we don’t have
to send out of the country and cycle it around several times in the process of
buying American goods that make more money available to Americans to buy
more American-produced items that are built by Americans, etc., etc.., etc. It
would give us an annual stimulus of a few trillion dollars. If the $800 billion TARP
stimulus program in 2008 was supposed to be good for our economy, just imagine what an annual $3 trillion stimulus would do every year for 5 years, 10
years, 25 years?
So, to me, instead of all the time that Bryce devotes in his book to using arcane
figures and charts to show us how gasoline is cheaper today than 100 years
ago, I think this process is a far better direction for America. And I think that if
you are an American libertarian who believes in the United States Constitution
and the United States Bill of Rights that this is the only way to go.
By the way, I hope you’ve noted that I didn’t even figure in how much we would
be saving by not using our military to defend the world’s oil…Did I say “the
world’s oil,” and not just American oil? Yes, I did. We’re even protecting the oil
of countries that hate us.
I do have to admit, however, that if I had received a fabulous trip to Saudi Arabia
and other oil-producing foreign countries and then pushed this kind of agenda,
I’m sure the Arabs wouldn’t be very happy with me. I’m not suggesting that they
would do something violent – I’m really not. But I don’t think they would want to
spend that kind of money on me again.
To be frank with you, it’s disappointing to me that Robert Bryce and other patriotic Constitution-loving Americans like him don’t readily understand this approach and haven’t already jumped on the bandwagon.
I’m disappointed, but not surprised.
Why am I not surprised? Because this goes back to the other “thing” I have, the
thing about the need to understand business; to truly understand business. I
don’t think that Robert Bryce has ever had any real business experience. I don’t
think that Pimentel has had any business experience. I don’t think that Taylor
