Pay a bit of attention: the pipeline to which you refer was never intended to transport "crude" oil. It was designed to pump tar sands, not crude oil.

If you would make use of such silly things as "facts" your arguments might be taken more seriously. Those tar sands were meant for export to China, after being pumped over (with the inevitable leaks all pipelines develop) the largest freshwater aquifer in the nation. Ant refining of tar sands here would've been to create more asphalt and my car, for some strange reason, simply won't run on asphalt. Maybe the local gas stations should install special asphalt pumps for those of us, you et/. al. who have magic IC engines that can easily burn asphalt for fuel? But, yes, let's just take that 1 in 10,000 chance that the Keystone XL wouldn't leak and poison our own citizens in order to help-China. It's so logical that I can't see why no one has thought of that method to help China already. Oh, you and some others have and think it's a great idea. Profit over people! Profit for a Canadian company over citizens of the U.S. Let's all get behind that brilliant idea.

Just that one glaring error puts your other claims into question.

As for MMT, many economists don't see it as a "fairy tale", nor Weimar Republic economics but as possibly a wise step to take at this point. Adam Smith's "invisible hand" has throttled about as many throats as it can and it's time to move on to a truly fair version of capitalism. Sweden has done just that. Capitalism with regulation. Mr. A. Smith might be rolling in his grave to learn that his way of a "might makes right" economy doesn't work in an economy the size we have now nor in a global economy.

If you would put in the work (maybe, read a newspaper?) you may have a fundamental understanding of- what you're talking about?