Paleo Pat Wants... Well, What?

Forbes.com ^ | 03/17/06 | Rich Karlgaard

[peyton randolph]

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Economic patriotism means, I gather, kicking Toyota and Nissan out of the U.S. Yes, what an unfair advantage these manufacturers have down there in Tennessee and Alabama. Their workers actually show up for work. Imagine that! They have an average daily absentee rate of 2%. Up in Michigan, Buchanan country, the average daily absentee rate in a union auto factory is 10% to 12%. But let’s bring this back in the name of economic patriotism.

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[peyton randolph]

Paleo Pitchfork Patsy Post

[Howlin]

This is a great line, too:

Let’s dissect his phrase, economic patriotism... what is that? In Buchanan’s world, it means shutting down free trade. The last time economic patriotism was tried, in 1930, well, you know the result.

[Para-Ord.45]

what a wild bunch,

Pat Buchanan,Chuck Schumer,Mark Levin.

[COEXERJ145]

And of course Pat would just love to get rid of all the JOOOOOOOOOS.

[Willie Green]

Up in Michigan, Buchanan country, the average daily absentee rate in a union auto factory is 10% to 12%.

Bullshit.

[ClaireSolt]

My problem with economic patriotism is that it usually means that people with no real interest in a business want to tell it what it can do. When I used my money and talent to start and develop a business I did not regard it as an American business. It was mine.

[peyton randolph]

Bullshit.

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Your posts are always so amusing. I picture an angry man with a framed photo of Paleo Pat sitting next to the keyboard...one hand typing away...and the other holding a Brigadier Pitchfork.

 

[Howlin]

it usually means that people with no real interest in a business want to tell it what it can do.

Correct; and the loudest ones are the ones whose "business" is selling themselves.

At your expense.

[Clemenza]

Yeah. Another MORON who has NEVER WORKED IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR and "hates big bidness" without acknowledging that most of us in "little business" have benefitted from the global economy as well.

Of course, Pat wants us to return to the old days, when my ancestors worked in smelly factories, lived in row houses and tenements, but at least they were loyal to their parishes (an important point for the Paleos).

[peyton randolph]

My problem with economic patriotism is that it usually means that people with no real interest in a business want to tell it what it can do. 

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Pat's business experience consists of working for the media and creating a fundraising machine based on duping paleos to send him money. Ayn Rand referred to the Pats of the world as second-handers. Other examples include Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Bill Clinton, etc.
 

[Willie Green]

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."

-- Samuel Adams

[DB]

You seem to forget freedom also means buying things from whom I choose, selling things to whom I choose and working for whom I choose without others dictating the terms.

You seem to be the one trading individual freedom for the illusion of security via unions and trade barriers.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

In Patty's world, the President of Iran is just that guy who's only threatening Israel and not us, and besides it's all their fault anyway.

[Once-Ler]

lol

[Age of Reason]

I value what Pat Buchanan says over any neocon's opinion any day.

[Age of Reason]

You seem to forget freedom also means buying things from whom I choose, selling things to whom I choose and working for whom I choose without others dictating the terms.

Very well, then.

Legalize drugs and prostitution.

[peyton randolph]

I value what Pat Buchanan says over any neocon's opinion any day.

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Save yourself the time of monitoring his statements. Just buy a copy of Mein Kampf.

[Age of Reason]

Just buy a copy of Mein Kampf.

The more people like you are driven to spouting panicky hyperbole at the mere mention of Pat's name, the more I believe Pat has you all figured out.

[M203M4]

Isolationist mouth-breather place-marker.

[peyton randolph]

The more people like you...yada yada yada

 

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People like me?

Does that mean

(a) I'm Jewish?

(b) I'm a neocon, i.e. same as (a).

(c) I'm hispanic

or

(d) all of the above.

 
When you determine which of the above I'm guilty of, feel free to point the way to the crematoriums.