To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 to "buy American" sounded like a good way to protect jobs by keeping out cheaper foreign products. Historians agree it was a mistake, setting off waves of retaliatory tariffs and making the Great Depression worse.
That's one reason Pat Buchanan isn't a historian.
12 posted on
12/19/2009 4:24:23 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s one reason Pat Buchanan couldn’t get elected.
13 posted on
12/19/2009 4:38:52 PM PST by
1rudeboy
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