Trading Seabiscuit for a Rabbit

WorldNet Daily ^ | 4 August 2003 | Patrick J Buchanan

[Wolfie]

Its all good for the multi-national corporations. Can't wait for Rollerball to replace wars.

[Texas_Dawg]

"Let's see how it all pans out."

Kind of like we did with Japan, then Mexico, now China, etc... Yet still our economy is rolling along just fine. Just tell me when to panic, Pat.

[csvset]

Democrats have lately begun to notice that under President Bush, one in every seven U.S. manufacturing jobs has vanished. U.S. manufacturing jobs have been disappearing at the rate of 75,000 a month for 34 months.

Perhaps Emperor Bush has no clothes.

[Texas_Dawg]

Perhaps Emperor Bush has no clothes.

Just think... you get to enjoy him as your President till 2008. Excellent.

[You Dirty Rats]

He left out Herbert Hoover.

Gee, I wonder why? After all, Hoover signed Hawlet-Smoot, raising tariffs to record levels. Didn't that greatly increase jobs in America, Pat?

To suggest, as Pat does, that our industrial explosion in the half-century after the Civil War was primarily due to tariff protection is ridiculous. Our rise into the world's superpower was based on freedom; that's why we grew, and that's why millions came over the ocean to this great country.

Pat's not interested in freedom. He wants the Federal Government to adopt policies that would freeze our current manufacturing. Very FRENCH of you, Pat! That's the exact policy followed by the EU, and look where they are!

[csvset]

Lol, the famous, "Made in China" tape incident.

[Cacophonous]

Gee, I wonder why? After all, Hoover signed Hawlet-Smoot, raising tariffs to record levels. Didn't that greatly increase jobs in America, Pat?

To suggest, as Pat does, that our industrial explosion in the half-century after the Civil War was primarily due to tariff protection is ridiculous. Our rise into the world's superpower was based on freedom; that's why we grew, and that's why millions came over the ocean to this great country.

Equally ridiculous, then, must be the suggestion that Smoot-Hawley caused the Stock Market Crash and Depression. Especially as Smoot-Hawley was enacted after the crash.

So were we less free after Kennedy ushered in the "free trade" era? Is that why we went from a creditor nation to a debtor nation?

What you are saying is that freedom is the price we pay for cheaper goods. Bad trade, in my book.

[jacquej]

Oh dear me!,

Could that "crazy-as-a-loon" Ross Perot have been right about that "giant sucking sound"?

[Texas_Dawg]

Lol, the famous, "Made in China" tape incident.

Those photo-ops are all stupid to begin with. Less union jobs are a wonderful thing in my mind.

[Texas_Dawg]

Could that "crazy-as-a-loon" Ross Perot have been right about that "giant sucking sound"?

Ummm... No.

[Texas_Dawg]

In the United States, however, the president has presided over the loss of 2.6 million manufacturing jobs.

Let's see... a cyclical economic downturn costs a couple million jobs for ultra-left Democrat unionists who bankroll the DNC and their pro-abortion, anti-Christian platforms, and George W. Bush is supposed to be sad about this? Only Pat Buchanan and his good friends at the AFL-CIO headquarters could be sad about this.

[Valin]

Especially as Smoot-Hawley was enacted after the crash.

True. But it did a great deal to extend the depression.

[Wolfie]

The only reason to vote anymore is to enforce one's social view, the economics are being bought and paid for on both sides by the large campaign contributors.

[Cacophonous]

Wow. So George Bush is supposed to be pleased because 2.6 million voters lost their jobs on his watch? Is this vindictiveness, stupidity or self-emasculation in action?

[Cacophonous]

How?

[Texas_Dawg]

The only reason to vote anymore is to enforce one's social view, the economics are being bought and paid for on both sides by the large campaign contributors.

,said Ralph Nader.

[csvset]

Those photo-ops are all stupid to begin with.

Yes they are, especially when Bush has to resort to carrying around a canvas banner that depicts boxes that have "Made In The USA" on them. They can throw up to make things "look good".

Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain!

Meanwhile Bush, Ashcroft and Ridge are adopting the hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil about the Mexican invasion.

The attacks on 9-11-01 upset George and Vincente Fox's talks about "amnesty" for the millions of illegals invading our country.

Perhaps "amnesty" will come in the second term you're forecasting, eh, vato?

[BlazingArizona]

Equally ridiculous, then, must be the suggestion that Smoot-Hawley caused the Stock Market Crash and Depression. Especially as Smoot-Hawley was enacted after the crash.

The crash of '29 was exactly like the crash of '87, a natural reaction to a huge runup in share prices. There is no law that says a market crash has to be followed by a depression. If we had acted in '29 as we did in '87, there would have been a regular recession instead of a depression. But no - we passed Smoot-Hawley and crimped off world trade, guaranteeing that the economy would collapse.

A far better approach would be to require that foreign markets open up to us in return for access to our markets. It's not free trade unless it goes both ways.

[Texas_Dawg]

Wow. So George Bush is supposed to be pleased because 2.6 million voters lost their jobs on his watch? Is this vindictiveness, stupidity or self-emasculation in action?

We live in a free market capitalist system where people lose jobs in cyclical economic downturns. It happens. That's life. You come up with a better system, and I'm all ears. But in the meantime, this is the best system man has ever known. And actually, Bush has bent over backwards to these AFL-CIO and Pat Buchanan cretans to try to prop up their jobs at everyone else's expense (especially the very poor). But even this can't save their dying industry. I can't speak for Bush (I'm sure he cares), but if ultra leftist unions lose their jobs, well, I can't think of a more deserving group.