Steel Thyself, Karl Rove

WSJ Online ^ | 8/6/03 | Wall Street Journal

[FITZ]

Even if the government was responsible for the jobs in those sectors, who cares? That still says nothing about government subsidies being inefficient.

I don't believe the government has made education, health care, or the welfare system efficient, but it subsidizes those while at the same time makes things very different for other kinds of businesses. The situation we're seeing now is that businesses like tool and die and others are unable to compete for business.

[Texas_Dawg]

The situation we're seeing now is that businesses like tool and die and others are unable to compete for business.

Same goes for butter churning, horseshoe cobbling, and covered wooden carriage making. Somehow we survived the loss of millions of jobs in those solid, American, industries which used to employ so many decent white folk.

[Burkeman1]

Well- yes- tariffs are not a good idea when you already have a confiscatory income tax.

[Zack Nguyen]

I would be willing to allow Bush to get away with spending like a leftist Democrat if I thought he was really pushing the political limit elsewhere and making daring moves for change.

The problem is he isn't. The War on Terror, while extremely effective, is hardly a political risk. It has remained immensely popular, regardless of how many protests CNN televises. His domestic policy has been to do the absolute minimum to keep his friends on board, while at the same time doing as little as possible to annoy his enemies.

It is good politics, but short-sighted.

[Zack Nguyen]

The Left likes welfare and Willie likes tariffs because they redestribute the wealth to good solid white folk (as many FReepers will tell you.

Hold on here. Of what are you accusing Willie Green?

[Texas_Dawg]

The War on Terror, while extremely effective, is hardly a political risk.

Are you kidding? It took hours of working, debating, planning, pushing, etc., to get the polls to where they were just 50/50 on an Iraqi invasion? And it is still 50/50 on that issue. The attack on Afghanistan might have been an easy call, but the invasion of Iraq (which I believe was even more necessary than Afghanistan) was and is a huge political battle. I have been frustrated by some of Bush's moves as well, but he has also nominated some great judges that they are doing everything they can (short of an all-out stoppage of the Senate which might be next) to get them confirmed. You got a better candidate I should vote for in '04?

[Texas_Dawg]

Hold on here. Of what are you accusing Willie Green?

Not accusing him of anything. Just an accurate statement. The Left likes government redistribution of wealth to their groups and the paleos like government redistribution of wealth to theirs.

[Zack Nguyen]

So you are saying, then, that Willie Green wants whites to benefit from fair trade policies, but not blacks or hispanics? Is that what he says?

[Texas_Dawg]

So you are saying, then, that Willie Green wants whites to benefit from fair trade policies, but not blacks or hispanics? Is that what he says?

He wants middle-class "workers" to benefit. And he hates "Turd Worlders".

[jla]

Unless I am mistaken, the coal that is mined in the states of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky is used primarily for coking in the steel production process.

Then that would make them coal miners, not steelworkers.