A look to most of the basic materials mining and manufacturing stats from around the world shows the US losing a competitive race in many areas. The idiocy -- from Clinton forward and the whole "stakeholders" nonsense which was and remains an attack on private property rights -- which is the "climate change" grift needs to be stopped.
Just another of the variations on "gimme" as the Left and the corrupt want to "rob Peter to pay Paul." But Paul is almost uniformly the middle class, while the robber is government,
As quoted on a couple of other threads:
The state is an organized crime racket. It appropriates wealth by coercion and regularly uses force in violation of the nonaggression principle. The state is a parasite that perpetuates itself at all costs and extends itself by any means possible. Regardless of its putative leaders, the state grows and increases its power at the expense of its hosts and others who fall victim to its predations.As Hans-Hermann Hoppe poignantly wrote, states are “gangs of murderers, plunderers and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots—[the state is] an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.”
One of the state's dirty occupations is war. When undertaking war, the state uses expropriated wealth and human capital to defend its territory or extend its reach and influence. Clearing away the fog of statist preconceptions regarding war, Hoppe explains that war is gang warfare: “Gang wars, then, typically involving some territorial issues, are always wars conducted by rival gang leaders with other people's money, machines and manpower (just think of taxation and compulsory conscription!).”
In Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War Mises Institute, 30 October 2023
But first, we must acknowledge that as organized crime syndicates, states have no legitimate claim to territory. This is no less true in Israel than anywhere else. States acquire territory by plunder and confiscation …This is communistic gobbledygook. The mere existence of states is not “statism” per se; the definition of that word implies totalitarianism, and it is not the case that all states are totalitarian. So this article also by implication condemns the US Declaration of Independence, which makes statements to the effect that “governments are instituted among men” whose purpose is “to effect their safety and happiness”, and the article is garbage, with all due respect, implying that the mere existence of the State of Israel is the cause of Hamas’ war. (There is no context that can justify that excerpt I posted.)