| Our government is usually the epitome of the law | | | | Indeed, I told the Sierra Club lady, that the steel |
| of unintended consequences. Most everything the | | | | tariff taxes hurt the auto industry, the truck |
| government does is inefficient and nearly every | | | | manufacturers, ship builders, and Caterpillar |
| law they make causes problems somewhere else, | | | | tractor, that could no longer compete with other |
| challenges which they will solve for us in the | | | | tractor manufacturers around the world and |
| future. Occasionally, the government does | | | | therefore they were unable to sell their tractors |
| something really stupid, and accidentally something | | | | in China and get some of our trade deficit back. |
| good becomes of it. | | | | She said she didn't care because it saved the |
| Just the other day, I was in Starbucks talking to | | | | desert tortise, because less people were going |
| someone from the Sierra Club, and they were | | | | out into the desert to dump their old cars. I told |
| drinking some kind of foo-foo latte drink, and they | | | | her that she was a very smart lady and she had |
| told me that because of the high steel tariff | | | | all figured out and she should run for Congress |
| taxes, that the price of junk steel has | | | | because she would fit in really well with the people |
| skyrocketed. So what people were doing is they | | | | there. She thanked me so much for the |
| were going out into the desert where people had | | | | compliments shook my hand and smiled. She then |
| abandoned old cars and they were collecting the | | | | walked out while singing a tune, totally oblivious to |
| cars, and taking them to the recycle yard and | | | | the reality of the world. |
| collecting on the money for the steel. | | | | |