“...traces back to regulations with environmental connections.”
Hitler started getting out of the Depression by invading other countries and developing their natural resources.
All we would need to do is invade the EPA, BLM, Forest Service, etc. offices and develop our own natural resources. Seriously. Roll back some of the restrictions, even put a 10-year period on them or something if we had to, but get us back up and running.
This is one of the reasons I left the Republican party. They refuse to reign in the BLM/Interior/EPA ect. They could have done it at almost any point. Defund them. Simple. But they won’t.
The number of jobs lost in the Pacific NW and northern states over owls and fish is staggering. That cost also includes an increase in building materials...snow ball effect. In Apalachia it’s coal. In Colorado it’s mining.
And all the land closed into national parks that are then closed to motorized vehicles which are then closed to mechanized transport which are then closed to hiking...
How many people did that put out of work, from tourism jobs to the manufacturing base to support it all?
And Oil... It’s insane. People think “Price of gas”. But that’s the least of the problem. Important of course, but all the things we use requiring petroleum... So few people think.