re: Regardless of your political affiliation what concerns you most today?

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If there's a war that America isn't a party to and prices skyrocket, you can bet your arse that our government is going to sequester American oil and food.

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You use the word "sequester," but that doesn't mean anything. What you mean is nationalize. There's no other way to force producers to only sell domestically and to set prices.

If you think oil producers are going to allow the US government to seize their property like that, I don't know what to tell you. It would be unconstitutional and if we'd be as "fine" as you think we would be, there would be no basis to declare martial law or anything approaching circumstances exigent enough to justify setting aside the constitution to allow the government to seize the property of American citizens in such a manner.

That's the sort of thing that fascist and communist governments have done historically. We wouldn't recover from that kind of lawlessness as a country. We'd be much better off participating in fighting the war somewhere else than we would be abandoning our protections against government tyranny and allowing our own government to rob us.

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Our economy is already one of the least internationally integrated in the world

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So that means we pay lower oil and food prices than other countries right now, I guess?