I'm not comfortable playing with loaded guns. Congress is doing that today as I write.
I know I have to suffer for a few weeks until the Joint Committee comes up with the final stimulus bill while both the House and Senate version today have a provision that makes Ahmadinejad's nuclear weapons look mild. The provisions are the: buy American steel, iron and equipment. That is flat out protectionism of the Smoot-Hawley (main cause of 1932-41 depression) kind that will cause a global depression. No person who knows the slightest economic history would dispute this fact. Our allies and most of the American companies expecting to be harmed have already said so.
Ahmadinejad with his bomb and radiation can only kill a few million people. The Democratic Party, with just this simple legislation can cause a trade war and a subsequent global depression which will starve many millions of people and harshly punish several billion people.
Congress playing with guns really can't be justified just to appease union supporters or for any other reason. Stop doing disgusting things like this.