[CWOJackson]

Yes pat, we know. You ran, conservative America yawned, you lost (a the Little Big Horn was a minor loss for Custer) and you're still ticked off.

[Drango]

America needs a new party.

Perhaps...but you won't be leading it Pat.

[cardinal4]

Go, Pat Go..........away!

[RiflemanSharpe]

The American middle class is increasingly being squeezed between a hight cost of living (higher prices and higher taxes come to mind real quick), and by a decreasing pool of good paying jobs.

Over Christmas, I visited my Yankee in laws. This was a lively topic of conversation. They as many I know down south are getting feed up and want this issue addressed in ways that help the middle class. Immigration amnesties are not it. And to quote my father in law who has 40 years as an accountant and investment advisor free trade is killing the middle class.

[em2vn]

This proposal is the type of crap from the President that makes me wish there were a true conservative running to unseat President Bush from the office.
I like the man but his policies are from the East coast block of the Republican party.

[Mamzelle]

If Pat is saying that Bush ought to be enforcing our generous immigration laws, Pat is right.

Every poll taken indicates that American CITIZENS, TAXPAYERS, LAWABIDING VOTERS--want these laws enforced.

And Rove just smirks and shrugs at us conservatives with --"Hey, we'll ignore you,where ya gonna go?"

Well, it won't do us any good to vote for Dean--so I guess we won't GO anywhere in Novemeber.

Maybe, Mr. Rove, we'll just stay home--while it's still our home!

[Semi Civil Servant]

What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or near the minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say, construction.

Sure, Pat. American companies will jump at the chance to replace their highly skilled work forces with unskilled, non-english speakers. For example, hospitals would offer pay "at or near the minimum wage" for thoracic surgeons so they could smuggle in Guatemalan farmers to perform open heart surgery.

THINK, Pat, THINK.

[Who dat?]

What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or near the minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say, construction.

I keep hearing that.

I’ve been involved in various aspects of construction for 35+ years. (Framing, roofing, plumbing, painting and electrical.) I haven’t seen anyone making minimum wage since the mid 1970’s – that’s when I apprenticed with an electrical contractor. Now you’ll make anywhere from $28 - $45 per hour, depending who you work for and what you’re doing.

Not a single $5.00/hr job I’m aware of. Helpers start out at $10.00. That’s for a live body with no experience whatsoever.

[MissAmericanPie]

What he says may be true, but Pat is certainly not the answer to the problem.

[Fred Mertz]

Americans today buy nearly 15 percent of the entire GDP of China. The Chinese buy two-tenths of 1 percent of ours. It's what the Bushites call "free and fair trade."

Doesn't the Bush family and friends have major league business connections in China?

[Phaedrus]

Buchanan is very good at describing problems, less than good at proposing solutions AND he seems to believe Big Government will solve problems IF he's running things. No thanks, Pat.

[LetsRok]

What would this mean? U.S. companies would offer pay at or near the minimum wage for jobs they had open in, say, construction. As few Americans can support a family and kids in school on $5 an hour, many of these jobs would go begging. The employer would then be allowed to go to Mexico, where the minimum wage is about 60 cents an hour, or countries where it is even less, and hire all the hard-working labor he needed at the U.S. minimum wage. As there are billions of people on earth who do not earn anything near $5 an hour, what the Bush plan means is throwing open America's borders to millions of workers who will come in and suppress the wages of America's workers.

If a mexican who lives in this country can survive on the wages being offered, then why can't Americans?

[dennisw]

Common sense form Pat B.

[PGalt]

America needs a new party

Easier to form a one-party nation Pat. Help us vote the Democrats into extinction, then if America doesn't take a turn for the better, you will have many more allies.

[FFIGHTER]

Mr. Irrelevant, becoming every more irrelevant. A man who will do anything and everything to try to stay in his diminishing spotlight. Run a third party into the ground and pick a communist bigot as a running mate. Well Pat you are entertaining, though most are laughing at you, not with you. S.O.S. packaged in attractive wrappings is still S*$%

[deport]

PJB was bred, born, raised and lived his life in D.C. and has developed the spin of that culture to an art form.... He took a few trips outside the beltway during his failed runs at the Presidency and had a few photo ops with him wearing his black hat and holding a gun.... otherwise he's an inside the Beltway money leech himself.... imo.

The following is fodder for his minions to send him some more cash..... and he wants to talk about trolling for cash....

Let it be said: Working America has no powerful voice in politics. Both Democrats and Republicans are open-borders, free-trade zealots, who troll for cash from corporate America and burn their incense at the altars of the global economy.

America needs a new party.

[ex-snook]

Hey, we know Pat is right again when the Commie 'attack the messenger' smear is used on him when they can't refute his message.

[B0rat]

Of course Mr. Buchanan won't say how organized labor has been creating an environment in the work force of America for 100 years that has forced companies to outsource jobs. Too many unskilled laborers who think their lack of skill is more valuable than it is. Buchanan is trully on the side of the rabid left on this one.

[Keith]

All Buchanan posts should carry an automatic barf alert.