Steeling (on Bush announcement of tariffs up to 40% on imported steel) All hail the principle of laissez-faire As Adam Smith upheld in treatise famed: The unseen hand of Providence at work And all our ills on intervention blamed. For is that not George W's intent: Prop up no corpses, let the market run With evenhandedness and dealing fair, Although he be an oil magnate's son? Why then these tariffs on imported steel Which trounce our international accords? Behold the steel mills in marginal states To understand whose votes the chief rewards. Then this shall be the president's new boast: "Free trade, free speech, a few more free than most". March 2002