Goodbye, Dollar—and Empire

The American Conservative ^ | November 22, 2004 | by Pat Buchanan

[snarks_when_bored]

Buchanan draws from a deep well of bitterness towards the American electorate, who rejected him when he sought to be their President. He's sure that he's right about most things, and so feels vindicated when he sees America struggling in one respect or another. It's called schadenfreude, and it's not a pretty sight in someone who ought to know better.

[Rain-maker]

Tables and Charts
US Trade and Budget Deficits, and the Fall of the Dollar

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/crisis/tables.htm

[Brian Allen]

<< So Freepers, what say you? >>

Bullshit, Pat!

[Brian Allen]

<< Good Bye Pat and take your lunacy with you! >>

Straight into his Korsokoff's-Syndrome-accelerated Alzheimer's!

The cranky, cynical coot has finally flipped!

[Just mythoughts]

"The Baby Boomers, celebrated by liberals in the 1960s as the “finest young generation we have ever produced,” will likely go down in U.S. history as the most self-indulgent and selfish."

Could we say a perverse generation.

[BellStar]

Well that's to the point.

[tm22721]

We are the first nation in all history to sustain a fiat currency that has lost 98% of its value in 70 years yet still survive.

If we can do it for 70 years we can do it for the next 70 as well.

We will know soon if the Asians stop buying our worthless Treasury paper.

When that happens, we will use our superpower military strength to suppress them, and the Fed will drop dollars out of helicopters to prevent a panic.

BUMP

[raybbr]

ping

[raybbr]

Sorry, repost. Forget it.

[raybbr]

Already posted.

[BellStar]

50 replies most must have missed the first post.

[BellStar]

Ping!

[Carry_Okie]

If the Democrats can't win at the ballot box, ginning up economic catastrophe will have to do.

The Slave Party will do anything to hamper the opposition.

[Rain-maker]

Weimar Hyper-Inflation plans?
Copters of Greenspam funny money ?...LOL

[OldSmaj]

Buchanan is a butt-head.

The only reason he has not been denounced as a disloyal USA-hater, like many of the rabid left, is that he is verbose enough to disguise his crap in a "I only want to hep you, 'cause I love you" folder of tripe.

And anyone that claims to be a conservative and actually thinks this bozo has something to be listened to, is as rabidly nuts as he is.

[LowCountryJoe]

I think that if Pat says that the dollar will continue its slide against the Euro, then it must be time to short the Euro

[VeniVidiVici]

I think I read about this in 1987.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Pat is clearly in a deep depression. He needs some Prozac.

[ijcr]

Those guys who said I'd have a flying car by the year 2000. Where is my flying car, you bast@rds!

They are living next door to the guys who said "With computers we will have a paperless office."