You beat me too it! Take my upvote and be damned!

There are no absolutes, unrestricted free trade also has bad outcomes. You need a measured approach, not ideologies.

If opinions upset you, you are in the wrong place buddy.

Doomed to fail, because we are off of the standard supply routes, and our costs are prohibitively expensive. We could make it work, but that would require tariffs and other laws to stifle outside competition for computer chips. But that would require biting into corporate profits, which as as much chance of passing in the U.S. government as a snowball in hell.

Duh! There is a reason the industry left the U.S. Subsidizing it will just be a money pit and get you substandard product. You need to change the way the U.S. does business to make that feasible. And we ain't doing that.

I also think I read somewhere it is used as an additive to other stuff. Ground up and mixed in to boost nutritional value.