Import
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Rather than deflating the economy, Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971 and imposed wage, price, and
import
controls, proclaiming bluntly, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.”
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And she told me, "Never
import
other people's limitations."
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the
import
of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
Things stick around for years sometimes before you understand why you're interested in them, before you understand their
import
to you.
It's actually a bigger footprint if we take into account the embodied energy in the stuff we
import
into our country as well.
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