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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: kbg   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Control Panel: Authoritarians and Macro Trends
Date: 08/20/25 12:54 AM
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I have mixed emotions on "some" of the items mentioned having both a national security and business background.

The second part of me is in alignment with the sentiments shared. The first part of me diverges. The fact is Covid was a major wake-up call that made it painfully aware to anyone paying attention how vulnerable the US is now economically and strategically. Economics is not everything. There are other considerations like being able to defend yourself and produce oh say important things like medicine and protecting oneself from economic extortion and thievery.

I'd get at the above differently in many ways, but I have zero problem slapping very large tariffs on items produced uneconomically due large state subsidization designed solely to establish market dominance by crushing companies playing by the normal capitalist book.
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