Pat Buchanan : America's Hollow Prosperity

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 02/15/2006 | Patrick Buchanan

[Rummyfan]

Now that the U.S. trade deficit for 2005 has come in at $726 billion, the fourth straight all-time record, a question arises. Yeah, like, who cares?

[Criminal Number 18F]

He's not dead?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[EternalHope]

Isn't there a rule somewhere that says anything from Pat has to have a BARF ALert?

If there's not, there sure should be.

[jpf]

Too bad they're not outsourcing whack job columnists.

[steve-b]

More echoings from within Pat Buchanan's Hollow Head.

[pissant]

Unfortunately, conservative columnist Paul Craig Roberts..

PCR is a leftwing moonbat. And if Pat thinks otherwise, he is one too.

[A. Pole]

Now that the U.S. trade deficit for 2005 has come in at $726 billion, the fourth straight all-time record, a question arises.

What constitutes failure for a free-trade policy? Or is there no such thing? Is free trade simply right no matter the results?

Bump!

[CWOJackson]

Be nice...pat is having a bad day. They just released the DNA testing on the bad guys we took out in Pakistan last month. We did in fact nail a senior bad guy.

Keep in mind, that was the same raid that poop pat wrote about whining about how we had killed "innocent women and children"...and never once mentioned the bad guys who were the target.

[RightWhale]

Maybe so, but from the point of view of commerce there wouldn't be trade if there were no profits being made. There must be more to the story.

[ozzymandus]

I used to like to watch Pat make fun of eleanor clift, but that was years ago. Now he's just a bitter, loser nut.

[Darkwolf377]

Pat Buchanan--the male Arianna Huffington.

[dead]

Last year, the United States ran a $202 billion trade deficit with China, the largest ever between two nations.

They get the money, but we get all the stuff.

If we thought the paper drink umbrellas and the cheap rain coats and the plastic shoes weren't worth the couple bucks we paid for them, we wouldn't make the deal.

If we want crappy Chinese products, it's none of the Federal Government's (or Pat Buchanan's) business.

[rcocean]

"The affluent free-traders, whose wealth resides in stocks in global companies, are enriching themselves at the expense of their fellow citizens and sacrificing the American worker on the altar of the Global Economy.

None dare call it economic treason."

I agree with Pat. I think more people are hurt by our trade polices than helped.

Problem is: the working people hurt by these policies are the same ones who hate Conservatives like Pat. I noticed the AFL-CIO doesn't give a damn about the workers hurt by free trade and massive legal immigrantion and the invasion of this country by illegal aliens.

But I don't see anything changing. I'll continue to invest my money on the assumption the trade/budget deficits will continue to increase. Commodity prices will go up, and the value of the dollar will decrease.

[steve-b]

Isn't there a rule somewhere that says anything from Pat has to have a BARF Alert?

I think it's generally accepted that Pat Buchanan's name IS a BARF Alert.

[hedgetrimmer]

Now there's an edifying comment on the deficit. Maybe you're not a US citizen?

[MikeA]

Now that the U.S. trade deficit for 2005 has come in at $726 billion, the fourth straight all-time record, a question arises. Yeah, like, who cares?

Trade deficits do not measure the strength of the economy OTHER THAN indicating the demand for imported consummer goods are high and thus people have money to spend. Indeed, trade deficits are so high because many economies among our trading partners, though of course not China, are struggling and thus demand for US consumer goods are low in those countries, while America's economy continues to roar ahead. Buchanan using trade deficits to make negative judgments about the US economy shows his ignorance of economics.

Buchanan isn't an economist. Those who are INCLUDING the new Fed Chair, say the economy is humming right along. Patty Boy just hasn't gotten over the fact no one wants him to be president. And thank goodness for that. His trade protectionist policies would have tanked the US economy by slackening off demand for US products abroad even more and also by driving up inflation here at home.

I guess if Patty Boy wants to tell the American public to stop shopping at Wal Mart for inexpensive foreign goods and for foreign made electronics and appliances that are more affordable than if they were made here in the US, then I wish him good luck getting that message across. No one will be listening.

[hedgetrimmer]

Communications equipment lost 43 percent of its workforce. Semiconductors and electronic components lost 37 percent ... The workforce in computers and electronic products declined 30 percent. Electrical equipment and appliances lost 25 percent of its workforce

Can you disprove this statement?

[pollyannaish]

LOL. Very true.

[ParityErr]

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From now on please use babelfish to convert Pat's writings from
'Stupid' to 'English'.