It will take more than a
It will take more than a decade to get the USA up to speed using the free market alone, and we are hurting RIGHT NOW. This act will give us jobs and cut our costs starting within a couple of years.
What annoys me is that so many people would rather export 200 million dollars a year to some arab shiek rather than see 50 million go to an American - anything is better for some people than seeing Pickens get money.
This act gives us back our independence. And that is worth tax dollars being spent. I don't see this as any worse than tax dollars being spent on huge volumes of expensive military hardware, I see it as being preferable in every way.