It frightens me when I find myself agreeing with Pat. ;>)
that must be because you never really knew where Pat stands on everything
Peter Schiff, Ron Paul's financial adviser.
I'd vote for Buchanan and Peter Schiff before any of these inept bozos from either party.
I would be afraid too if I were agreeing with Pat.
But you likely aren’t agreeing with him, you are just agreeing on a couple of specific facts in this whole debacle. Undoubtedly, you don’t agree that the solution to all this is to stop trading with foreign countries and build a giant wall around the U.S. to protect union jobs in the upper midwest. And you probably don’t think that we should have put our hands over our eyes and watched WWII happen without us simply because Hitler ‘really wasn’t that bad’ and the real cause of WWII was Churchill trying to protect Poland and France.
Getting into bed with Buchanan on anything is a suicide pact. It’s a short plank and everybody else has to walk it with him when he makes his next wackjob claim - and the GOP will always get tarred with the same brush.
FREE TRADE IS NOT FREE
Patrick J. Buchanan
Address to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
November 18, 1998
. . . I am called by many names. “Protectionist” is one of the nicer ones; but it is inexact. I am an economic nationalist. To me, the country comes before the economy; and the economy exists for the people. I believe in free markets, but I do not worship them. In the proper hierarchy of things, it is the market that must be harnessed to work for man - and not the other way around.
As for the Global Economy, like the unicorn, it is a mythical beast that exists only in the imagination. In the real world, there are only national economies — Japan’s that has lost its animal spirits, South Korea’s that is deep in recession, China’s which is headed for trouble, Brazil’s which is falling, Indonesia and Russia’s which are
in collapse.
In these unique national economies, critical decisions are based on what is best for the nation. Only in America do leaders sacrifice the interests of their own country on the altar of that golden calf, the Global Economy.