America Doesn't Have to Run the World

www.wordlnetdaily.com ^ | 1/3/06 | Pat Buchanan

[Paul Ross]

Why should nations that are succeeding adopt the policies of nations that are failing, and wailing?

[Paul Ross]

Why should nations that are succeeding adopt the policies of nations that are failing, and wailing?

[Paul Ross]

I wouldn't want him for a neighbor or a leader.

He is your neighbor, and a fellow citizen...if you really are. Looks to me like you are a coordinated slew of Bush 'bot lackies. Continuing their campaign of personal destruction.

[dfwgator]

Don't forget, Pat lost a dear relative in a Nazi Concentration Camp. He fell out of the guard tower.

[Paul Ross]

Typical Buchanan crap... and he starts off with a factual error (go figure). Rumsfeld resigned prior to the election, but Bush held off the announcement until afterwards

Actually, yours is the party in error. Rumsfeld offered repeatedly to resign in 2004, and again in 2005. This time, the "offer" wasn't really his idea.

[Paul Ross]

does Mr Rumsfeld know he was "fired" ?

Why don't you ask him?

[Redleg Duke]

That is the liberal, socialist way. Equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity.

[allen08gop]

Hey Paul,

You assume wrong.

Born and raised in Chicago area. Not a Bush lacky either.

Great-grandfather was a Republican state senator for Wisc. He is credited with the plan that kept Milwaukee in the black during the Depression. In other words, they had little debt.

Grandparents and parents were Conservatives. I am a Conservative.

I stand by my statement. You are entitled to disagree.

"campaign of personal destruction?" You sound like a lib.

[allen08gop]

Why don't you ask him?

[lucysmom]

If you were to ask the World War II generation in the 1950s what enemy would strike America as its "next Pearl Harbor", how many if even allowed to guess 100 times, would suggest fanatical Muslims? Yet they were often the enemy of the British Empire, why shouldn't they threaten the Pax Americana?

Why were Muslims the enemy of the British Empire?

[mo]

"Do you understand the difference between debt and unfunded liabilities?"....

Of course I do...but for the purpose of this thread...the numbers and expectations of the Federal Gov'mt as defined by those numbers, define exactly for all of us Americans what the world expects of us...We have the luxury of some 4-5 trillion in immediate debt with the expectation of such further benefits only to the extent we will shoulder a variety of responsiblities and expectations the world has of us. Buchanan's atttitudes are suicidal in the face of all this...

[lucysmom]

Real democracy or real republic? Democracies are not lasting and they tend to be replaced by tyrannies.

I wonder about that everytime I hear Bush mention democracy in Iraq.

[Mase]

...the numbers and expectations of the Federal Gov'mt as defined by those numbers, define exactly for all of us Americans what the world expects of us...

Why would the rest of the world care if we dissolved social security thereby eliminating a large chunk of our unfunded liabilities? Our annual national debt is just 2% of GDP. This is lower than the 2.7% it has averaged for many decades. Our total debt to GDP is about 69%. This is much less than Japan's 170%.

I think the world expects us to be able to pay our debts which is why so much money continues to flow our way. I agree that PJB's attitudes are suicidal but the charts Hodges posted don't tell the whole story. He does this on purpose to stoke the fires of doom and gloom.

[rabscuttle385]

The massive red bar on the right is deeply troubling...and that's using statistics from seven years ago. The disparity is probably even worse now, judging by the recent flare ups.

[dangerbird]

Is that really true?

[GOP_1900AD]

We've traded new blood and smarts for cheap labor.

[RightWhale]

He has been my neighbor many times in the past, just a few days at a time of course. He is very quiet and decent to have as a neighbor.

[allen08gop]

I'm sure in that context he would be fine.

When a neighbor is in need, you help. His attitude towards other countries smacks of, "You are on your own."

The context is FDR's use of the term and how you help put out a fire and not let it burn.

[Last Dakotan]

...please explain why everyone in the world STILL! wants so badly to come here that they will risk life, limb, and everything just to set foot on our shores?

Better social programs.

[outdriving]

"That deficit is denominated largely in U.S. dollars, which lose value to inflation. If the Chinese displace us, as Pat contends, their little stockpile will be devalued so quickly it won't be funny at all."

A long time before that, if we continue giving away the farm, the Chinese and a few other of our "friends" will force a switch away from the dollar as the base currency in world financial markets in favor of the Euro. It's not like China's sitting on a pile of greenbacks.

Then we're up the creek without a paddle.