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To: kinghorse

Ya got me...what's a 'Smoot Harley idiot'?


91 posted on 03/09/2006 9:21:44 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr; kinghorse
Ya got me...what's a 'Smoot Harley idiot'?

Unless he's attempting to say Smoot-Hawley: I have no idea. :)

183 posted on 03/09/2006 9:32:41 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: stuartcr; kinghorse

I think he meant Hawley-Smoot idiot. As in the Hawley-Smoot tariff act of 1930.

"1930, passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States...The act brought retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffered a sharp decline, and the depression intensified."

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/HawleySm.html


189 posted on 03/09/2006 9:33:49 AM PST by Betis70 (zoom zoom)
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