Patrick J. Buchanan Examines "The Slow Awakening of George W."

Washington Times ^ | 09-17-03 | Buchanan, Patrick J.

[Texas_Dawg]

Maybe you could charter an invisible jet and take some time off of your invisible job and go to the game....ahhh, no that would not work because then you could not sit on FR all day playing the part of ruthless billionare tycoon from your parent's basement.

Haha. Nice. I like that one (seriously).

[hchutch]

Until the regulators and trial lawyers begin to wreak their havoc, as they have done to every other area of business. As it becomes more profitable, the more the IRS takes, and that becomes a burden.

And eventually, the BS tolerance will be exhausted, and the company will start to look for a friendlier place to do business. The self-destructive cycle we began in the 1960s, where anyone who was a successful businessman now finds himself the object of envy and hatred, instigated by the lefties and the paleos.

This country had treated some of its most successful entrepreneuers, such as Bill Gates, like dirt. When they succeed, it seems as if this country, rather than thanking them, tries to destroy them. That is NOT going to make them feel favorably inclined to this country. Now, the paleos are saying, "You'd better not outsource or offshore, or we will treat you like dirt." They're ALREADY treated like dirt, they're ALREADY held in contempt. What do they have to lose by outsourcing or offshoring?

No poor person provided a productive job to anyone. People like Bill Gates have provided LOTS of productive jobs for this country, and they are thanked with attempts to bring them down. Until we break the cycle of class envy, until we can bring common sense back to regulations and the tort system, we will continue to harvest what has been sown for decades.

[Lazamataz]

You have no college education whatsoever and you prove it with every post.

[RockyMtnMan]

I understand the law of comparative-advantage quite well, you just choose to ignore the need for consumers with strong buying power. Trade deficits are a good example of your "economic efficiency" statement. The value of goods acquired by China/India at a dramatically reduced rate do not translate into better value to the consumer.

Intellectual property is more valuable than the widget itself. The trade imbalance reflects this and would be higher if we counted the value of a "job".

[dogbyte12]

I played hookey today. I have saved up vacation days. That is my excuse for posting habitually to this thread. Texas_dawg posts as much as I do when on vacation. We are to trust a guy who respects his boss, his job so much, that he can continuously post while on his employer's dime.

I simply do not believe him any more. Either his boss is blind, or stupid, or Texas_dawg is a fraud.

Can anybody picture a productive worker on Wall Street spending the entire trading day posting here?

[Lazamataz]

Maybe you could charter an invisible jet and take some time off of your invisible job and go to the game....ahhh, no that would not work because then you could not sit on FR all day playing the part of ruthless billionare tycoon from your parent's basement.

This also could be accurate. A child would have had no college, and this person clearly has never even driven by a college campus.

[Theodore R.]

Well, TX had an election Saturday, and the doctors beat the lawyers by 1 percent.

Can the ill start going to lawyers for medical advice?

[Texas_Dawg]

you just choose to ignore the need for consumers with strong buying power

I'm a supply-sider. So was Ronald Reagan. Sorry you're not. Supply-side economics work very well.

[DoughtyOne]

The progression of the globalist debate has revealed it for what it is. In 1994,95 I railed on the idea of globalism and sending jobs overseas. The ploy in those days was to state that hi-teck was going to save the day. Who needed manufacturing if computer related jobs were going to replace them. We were all going to get an internet job and Hi Teck would be to manufacturing, what the industrial revolution had been to the horse and buggy days.

Then around 1998 hi-teck began to go bust. The tech industry bubble burst and here we are today. Note that none of the hi-teck promoters are advancing the theory that we bring back manufacturing jobs due to the hi-teck tank.

It was all a ruse to support something that they wanted. They wanted to send manufacturing overseas, and they did. Now to hell with the excuses. It's a done deal. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Now outsourcing has come along. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs stand on the brink overlooking the abyss. These outsourcing pricks don't give a damn about anyone. If they can save $0.10 an hour, they'll stab their neighbor in the back.

Ethics have for all intents and purposes vanished from this nation. A nation without them will not remain a nation for long.

[Texas_Dawg]

Can anybody picture a productive worker on Wall Street spending the entire trading day posting here?

And what do you do again?

[RLK]

This isn't about free trade. It's about the ascendence of a new breed of lazy useless commissaars. Bush and the Bush family are among them. Nobody in that family has done anything of substance since somebody in the family hit an oil well 100 years ago. Since then they fabricate importance and perpetuate their position by engaging in politics.

[dogbyte12]

26 posts an hour, during a trading day. Wow, I wish I had the time to do that when working. Even posting 26 bits of rubbish would eat up time. Consider the fact that this guy is reading, thinking, refreshing, while he is not posting, and you can figure out how much "work" this guy is doing while Wall Street is roaring.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Have you checked the stock market lately? Corporate profits were up 51% last quarter over the year before. If you'd invest in the stock market and quit complaining, bla bla bla.

For Gods sake, you never stop with this bull sh*t.

America is still littered with millions of people that got their crank caught in the door, and lost not only their butts in the stock market, but their homes and retirements etc etc.

And you stand here telling people they should invest their hard earned money in the freaking stock market? LOL!

As I've said before, I would rather juggle chain saws or go to Las Vegas, then hand over one dime to the stock market boys

You want to throw your money at the stock market? Have at it!

[RockyMtnMan]

Your statement shows your lack of knowledge of a market economy. You can't have supply without demand that's a fundamental law of economics, didn't you know that?

Reagan was a proponent of Trickle-down economics because it created jobs at home through capital investment. Capital investment has been trickling to India and China, do you think that was what Reagan meant?

[Major_Risktaker]

That is the best you can do?

[Theodore R.]

It's kind of like Wal-Mart coming into a town of 8,000 people and putting all the small merchants out of business. Wal-Mart has the variety, the lower prices, etc, and the small merchant cannot compete. So he goes out of business, and his store becomes a boarded-up eyesore for many years before some video store decides to try that location for a few months.

Not everyone can have the nice white-collar jobs. There must be jobs for the blue-collar men too. And there is a danger in a country not producing so many consumer goods. There is a very long list of what is no longer produced in the USA. It ranges from televisions to radios and even brooms.

[Texas_Dawg]

As I've said before, I would rather juggle chain saws or go to Las Vegas, then hand over one dime to the stock market boys

This probably explains why you're so unhappy. Do you keep your money in socks under the bed?

[Texas_Dawg]

Capital investment has been trickling to India and China, do you think that was what Reagan meant?

No. He meant for it to go to Japan and Mexico.

We're all doomed.

[BMiles2112]

I think the onus is on the free traders to explain what to do about the unemployable.
There is an assumption here that people, in general, aren't smart enough to figure out what jobs exist, what they pay, and what future there is in these jobs, and they will become permanently unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of former farmers found work outside agriculture once machinery made their labor virtually worthless.

[RLK]

Daddy Bush defused the Reagan momentum with a mass of momentum-absorbing bland putty. His stupid useless kid is now presiding over the destruction of this nation.