| akuma587 said: But couldn't you also say that protecting domestic production of just about any major manufacturing processes, including cars, trucks, etc., would fall within the President's commander-in-chief power? That would be like saying that the President couldn't do something about a light bulb manufacturing plant who produces 50% of the nation's light bulbs because of a few bankruptcy laws. |
Well I wouldn't say it fell under Presedential power because of his roll as commander-in-chief. How ever congress could pass laws granting them an oversight on industries vital to national infrastructure. I know at least before the breakup of Bell Telephone the the government had that type of oversight on them, and I sure there is something similar for the power grid.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
