Posted on 10/14/2008 6:10:11 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
Pat can go back under his rock and stay there, and the sooner the better.
I've seen Obama respond to this -- it is enlightening. The question: What would you cut?
The answer: I would invest in higher salaries for teachers. I would invest in roads and bridges. I would invest in people by cutting taxes for anyone who wasn't rich. I would invest in Green technology. I would invest in health care, offering expanded beenfits for all.
And millions of people are thinking this guy has the right approach. He doesn't have anything at all.
Deficits don’t matter we gonna spend, spend, spend.
Its hard to face the facts.
Thanks.
Take a look at the shift in investment policies of some of the major investment funds, like those of the public employees. Where have they chosen to redeploy their investments? Outside of the USA! The country is being bled dry! Check out California's policy, for instance....
Its denial. It needs a 10 step process.
Saw the word “empire,” guessed it was a Buchanan screed ... and I was right.
Finally an accurate prediction.
Mr, Buchanan is 100% correct. And you can change that Wall Street Journal subscription to the Farmers Almanac. You will be needing it to plant your home gardens to survive.
Got guns? You will be needing those to defend your market garden. That is the new paragigm, and it applies now to almost every facet of American life.
The wheel of history has turned.
And Obama doesn't even khow it, but John McCain does.
Buchanan has failed to mention that we no longer have the ability, as Obama wants to do, to dedicate 7% of the US annual GNP to "foreign aid." Obama now lives in a world where his " Hope & Change " has been irrevocably destroyed by the very affirmative action mortgages he and his Acorn mavins so actively touted and forced on America.
Obama and his ivy league cadre of party organizers have just become the victims of Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution, and now have become dinosaurs in the process of extinction. Their party's ciminal largesse begs accountability, but will America ever figure it out?
We shall see.
How about we liquidate . . . wait, that might be construed as a threat.
another depressing screed from pat.
eisenhower did not have technological multiplier that we have today.
Simple, nations that want our support are going to have to pay more, either for their own defense, or for us to do the job. They don’t have good options otherwise, and while they’ll whine, in the end, they’ll pay, one way, or another. That’s what Pat has wrong, fundamentally. There are a number of ways where we can cut off the free riders, without harming ourselves.
Pat's problem is that he sees everything through the lens of his 1930s-era America First heroes. And thus his "answer" to the financial crisis is the same as it is for all of his other hobby horses to pull back all of our military forces ...
The problem with that, of course, is the same one that characterized the myopic idiocy of his ideological forebears: the rest of the world is still out there, and we will be forced to deal with the bad guys one way or another.
We learned after WWII that it is better to be proactive -- we won the cold war because of it. It doesn't mean the US always acts properly, but Buchanan's basic strategy of "not acting" toward threats, has had demonstrably disastrous results.
So the problem with THIS article is the same as with most of what Pat writes: it's stupid and short-sighted.
Tell you what Larry, there are MANY things we can do here at home to help our economy, even if the current volatility (I refuse to call it a crisis, because what is being done, is people are being herded) doesn’t subside. Newt had it right - 1) cut corporate tax rates (we should actually see a rise in tax receipts) 2) cut capital gains taxes so that owners can effectively allocate their resources 3) repeal Sarb-Ox, it hasn’t done shit and costs a lot 4) repeal quite a number of useless government regulations - and they exist 5) drill and mine here, now, and so on.
“the same as with most of what Pat writes: it’s stupid and short-sighted.”
Yep. Spot on.
Yep, yep, yep, and yep.
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