Posted on 07/09/2014 12:24:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
Correction, reread post #54.
Yeah, those are some timely facts.
Got anything else?
Yes, stop wasting my time.
Interesting. Thanks.
I have these conversations because not only do I enjoy talking about, grappling with, and thereby, refining my own views on this stuff, but I'm hopeful others might be following along and gain some insight as well.
:-)
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September 29, 2006
Patrick J. Buchanan
How could we level the playing field? Simple. Impose an “equalizing fee” on imports equal to the rebates. Take the billions raised, and cut taxes on U.S. companies, especially in production. Create a level playing field for U.S. goods and services in foreign markets, and increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies in our own home market by reducing their tax load.
U.S. trade deficits would shrivel overnight. And jobs and factories lately sent abroad would start coming home.
http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-how-to-bring-manufacturing-back-home-109
No Donna, it’s your turn to reasonably reply and answer substantively to my Posts #16 and #54. If all you can do is make semi-incoherent one liners or copy and paste a Buchanan passage, then forget about it, you’re wasting my time.
Nationalism versus Globalism
A speech by Pat Buchanan
Five years ago, historian Christopher Lasch published The Revolt of the Elites [1995]. It was a book about how our national elite was literally seeding from America. Pointing out the huge and growing gap in income between the elite and the middle class, Lasch argued that a more ominous gap existed in how each perceived America.
The old elite, Lasch wrote, had a sense of obligation to country and community. But the new ruling class, more merit based, brainy and mobile, congregates on the coasts and puts patriotism far down the list in hierarchy of values. Indeed, said Lasch, “It is a question of whether they think of themselves as American at all.”
Lasch did not mention names, but the new elite is not difficult to identify. A few years ago, Ralph Nader wrote to the executives of 100 giant US corporations, suggesting they might show their loyalty to “the country that bred them, built them, subsidised the and defended them.” At the annual stockholders’ meeting, Ralph said, why not begin with a pledge of allegiance to the flag?
Only one company responded favourably. Half did not respond at all. Many sent back angry letters declaring that they were not American companies at all. Motorola denounced the request as “political and nationalistic.” Other companies likened the idea of a pledge of allegiance to loyalty oaths of the McCarthy era. Why were the heads of these corporations so outraged? Because for years they have been trying to sever their bonds to the country of their birth.
In 1997 the head of Boeing told one interviewer he would be delighted if, in twenty years hence no-one thought of Boeing as an American company. “My goal,” said Phil Condit, “is to rid [Boeing] of its image as an American group.”
http://www.spearhead.co.uk/0003-pb.html
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