[Theodore R.]

Pat is so right: if NC goes to Kerry, all the rest is immaterial.

[Theodore R.]

I forgot to plug in Pat Buchanan's name as the author of this article.

[NotchJohnson]

I was watching Dennis Miller last night abd there was aformer Clinron aide talking down the economy (as Clinton did in 92) My question is what in the world would democrats do? This question goes to the economy as well as war.

[Alberta's Child]

The GOP is fortunate its opponent in 2004 is John F. Kerry, who is as clueless as they are on the new world economy that has been designed, and is operating, to loot America of her patrimony.

The difference is that a Kerry victory in November will actually have one positive effect. All talk of "outsourcing" and "jobs crises," etc. will vanish the minute he is inaugurated, and he'll be held up as a champion of the American working class even if the unemployment rate rises to 98% after his first year in office.

The author of this article misses some major points. In addition to the acronyms he mentions (NAFTA, GATT, etc.), he should also include FICA, OSHA, EPA, SFTL (Stupid F'ing Trial Laywers), etc.

I would also point out that "the American dream" is not really something we should aspire to -- since it is probably the one insurmountable obstacle in this issue.

[coffeebreak]

There is no job crisis. The unemployment rate is 5.6% which is excellent. Just because the democrats SAY there is a jobs crisis doesn't mean there is.

[The Clemson Tiger]

I'm not an economist and I don't pretend to understand it. But unless this outsourcing issue is handled better than it's being handled now, we'd better get ready to see a lot of new Democrats in office come 2006 and 2008.

People whose jobs are threatened/lost don't vote for the status quo.

[#3Fan]

BoLS show 3 million jobs created. The unemployment rate is lower than normal now too.

[Peter J. Huss]

Wow. Good piece.

What is the end game? The US dollar will continue to slide and inflation will eat away at Joe and Jane's' ability to purchase basic goods and pay on their debt, which is at record levels.

After a lot of pain (including a rise in chronic unemployment, bankruptcies, crime, divers, and numerous other social ills), domestic industry starts to fill the demand that the high priced foreign goods cannot (only because the masses here can not generally afford them). Jobs are created again and the economy starts to recover.

[lainde]

bttt

[TXBSAFH]

Jobs are being created, in India and China.

[Walkin Man]

How about Ohio, do you think the President will win there?

Or Missouri?

People are sick and tired of hearing how great the economy is and yet still not being able to find a decent middle class job.

And then to have the President or his men call them economic isolationists and say its a good thing for America to outsource our jobs is like a slap in the face.

May people are going into the voting booth in this fall to pay back the party that has said and done these things.

[LS]

The problem with this analysis is the imports did NOT repeat----NOT----"create" anywhere near 150,000 new jobs because, as we are constantly reminded, the jobs overseas pay a fraction of what people will work for here. So in fact the imports may have created a million jobs. So what? A million jobs at $1 an hour? Is this really what Patsy wants?

These jobs WILL NOT GET DONE at higher prices, because they are not competitive at higher labor prices. They are not worth the investment.

So the accurate way to look at this---regardless of the political spin---is that we are in a restructuring economy in which many of the jobs no longer are valued as they used to be. We can either export them at cheap wages, or watch their parent companies disappear entirely. There is no other alternative. NO ONE is going to pay $80,000 a year for many of these jobs, period.

[Consort]

Democrat business owners are laying off/not hiring workers, Liberal stockbrokers are scaring away investers.....it's a Left-wing conspiracy.

[rwfromkansas]

Actually, there has been a net gain of jobs during the Bush administration domestically.

[petercooper]

Unemployment rate is 5.6%. Hardly a crisis.

What is it in Germany, 11%?

[Pentagram]

The U.S. trade deficit is the greatest foreign aid and wealth transfer program in history, and our workers are paying for it by the loss to their families of the American Dream.

We reformed welfare inside the U.S.A., and then started it up outside the U.S. Delicious irony at its very best!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The reasons can be traced to these four acronyms: NAFTA, GATT, WTO, PNTR.

He left out the dot.com boom and 9-11. The dot.com boom put people in unstable jobs that were doomed to disappear. 9-11 erased $8 trillion from our capital. That will stop a lot of job creation. Our annual GDP is still only about $10 trillion.

The 2.4 million job increase so far will soon start to take accelerate and this commentary will look plain silly.

[#3Fan]

Rush spent his last few minutes going over this issue and said some of the same stuff that was said here. Good rant at the end to the whiners. It was great.

[raloxk]

Pat is a moron. If he is right how is it that any jobs have been created since 1975 when the US began consecutive trade deficits?

Likewise in 1992, the US came within 100b of a balance in trade down from -150b in 1988, yet where were the jobs?

Do a regression alanysis on trade defict and job cration, you will find NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT relationship