Pat Buchanan : America's Hollow Prosperity

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 02/15/2006 | Patrick Buchanan

[Wolfie]

What's the point. Until Hillary's in the White House, people here just won't care.

[A. Pole]

Buchanan isn't an economist. Those who are INCLUDING the new Fed Chair, say the economy is humming right along.

Exactly! As Alfonso Nunez de Castro said a while ago:

"Let London manufacture those fine fabrics of hers to her heart's content; let Holland her chambrays; Florence her cloth; the Indies their beaver and vicuna; Milan her brocade, Italy and Flanders their linens...so long as our capital can enjoy them; the only thing it proves is that all nations train their journeymen for Madrid, and that Madrid is the queen of Parliaments, for all the world serves her and she serves nobody."
(Prominent Spanish official - Alfonso Nunez de Castro in 1675)

[Strategerist]

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Oddly, I see the same thing for anything written by Alan Tonelson, or anything Lou Dobbs says. Strange.

[Rummyfan]

No, I am a citizin. Most anyone you ask today would say that the economy is humming. Most indicators point to the same conclusion. Pat Buchanan meanwhile gets nuttier with every article he writes; his recent stance vis a vis the Danish cartoons was ridiculous, his protectionist ideas are ridiculous, his hatred of Israel is apparent. I detest him even being called a 'conservative'. I just thought that first line gave a good opportunity for a witty response, even if my retort was lame.

[hedgetrimmer]

The indians sold the island of Mannahatta for 24 dollars worth of beads. The settlers knew the worth of what they were buying and built their paltry investment into something very very valuable.

History repeats itself except this time the Americans are selling off their nation for cheap chinese 'trinkets' and now China is building itself into the most formidable nation on the planet as a result. I guess if we don't teach history to people like you, we are doomed to repeat it. This time we're the losers.

[A. Pole]

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Freetraders arguments are OVERWHELMING !

[CWOJackson]

buchanan went so far right he's come up on the left.

[Aquinasfan]

They get the money, but we get all the stuff.

Milton Friedman opened my eyes on that one. Either they spend the money, in which case it returns to us, or they burn it, and we keep the stuff.

[ex-snook]

Pat riles them up because he puts the good of American citizens before all others.

Unable to refute Pat's truth, smearers are reduced to name-callers.

[dead]

I guess if we don't teach history to people like you, we are doomed to repeat it.

Your “island of Manhattan” analogy is absolutely retarded on just about every level. No, I did not learn history from people like you. Thank God.

If you want to learn history, learn the history of government-controlled economies, like the one Pat Buchanan and Hillary Clinton would prefer for the United States.

That history is quite unpleasant.

[Paul Ross]

Especially the leftist apologists for the whack job outsourcing...Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman of the New York Times.

[hedgetrimmer]

Most anyone you ask today would say that the economy is humming.

Oh really? Is that why the citizens of Texas can't afford to build their own highway system and have to ask the Spanish company Cintra to fund and run it? Is that why Arnold Schwarzenegger who hasn't spent one red cent filling some of the potholes on California freeways, is asking China to fund a "goods movement corridor" out of the LA basin? Is that why our water and utility systems are being sold off to foreign entities-- they say its because citizens and municipalities are broke and can't afford to keep them up. If we are making so much money, where is all the tax money they are collecting going? Not to the infrastructure. By all appearances, the economy is going very poorly and the citizens of the United States are losing all their assets at the same time the high dollar jobs are being outsourced.

[Paul Ross]

What part of the following are you failing to grasp?

"The decline in some manufacturing sectors has more in common with a country undergoing saturation bombing than with a super-economy that is 'the envy of the world,'"... Communications equipment lost 43 percent of its workforce. Semiconductors and electronic components lost 37 percent ... The workforce in computers and electronic products declined 30 percent. Electrical equipment and appliances lost 25 percent of its workforce.

[Paul Ross]

Ok, what's wrong with my browser.

Maybe your software was written in India. Call your friendly helpdesk.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Well, I sort of recall you being at the tip of the sword over this immigration thing or the Presidents spending policies.....

Am I correct?

[logician2u]

Pat Buchanan says:

Again, when can we say a free-trade policy has failed?

Logician2u says, why do people like Buchanan continue to think NAFTA is free trade?

[hedgetrimmer]

the history of government-controlled economies

Like OUR government enacting the ESA so farmers, ranchers, timber property owners and fishermen can't use their property to earn a living?

Like OUR government killing off the private sector jobs through "free trade" so that only GOVERNMENT sector jobs are growing?

Like our trade representative going to Hong Kong and selling off our cotton industry to Africa so the transnational corporations can get FDI there?

Like our government using EPA and DOT money to control the housing market by requiring cities and towns to build high density "smart growth" developments and not permitting single family home projects by individual property owners?

You really are NOT paying attention.

[Paul Ross]

More echoings from within Pat Buchanan's Hollow Head.

Hollow? Well obviously if he is not quite as dense as some heads amongst the phoney Free Traitors.