Pat Buchanan : America's Hollow Prosperity

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

[Final Authority]

It occurs all to often on these threads, the person who replies did not read the comment that he replied to. I wrote "if..they actually wanted". What does that mean to you? I did not write "something we actually want to sell them" that you somehow believed I wrote and replied to.

It is their business and ours to buy and sell what we want it is however at our peril not to understand the consequences of our actions and the complexity of international trade.

If you reread the statement that you replied to, if they actually wanted to buy things we offered for sale, what is wrong with it?

[oceanview]

you cannot do that so long as you have currency imbalances, currencies that don't float, import restrictions in other countries, and lower living and wage standards that americans simply will not accept for themselves.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Paul Craig Roberts has been and still is an conservative economist assclown.

Better.

[expat_panama]

The indians sold the island of Mannahatta for 24 dollars worth of beads.

Let's think a little --$24 in 1637, invested at 7% (long term historical investment return) would now be worth $1,670,418,178,311.90.  That's more than the total value of all of Manhattan today -- all the land, the buildings, and the businesses.

[SuperOne]

poor people shop at walmart and think they are getting a good deal... Their foreign electronic products are bottom end junk. THE GROWING UNDERCLASS OF AMERICA---> their jobs have been exported to the "MIDDLE CLASS BUSH CARES ABOUT".... AS HE HAS SAID REPEATEDLY

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> INDIAN, CHINESE AND MEXICANS.... not the american middle class.

this is the same idea the corporations have.

dont get me wrong ... the country was built by cheap labor imported in waves after waves... right now it is the mexicans.

[SuperOne]

real conservatives want to conserve our language, values, culture, history, and yea... our borders. Pat is an isolationist.... AND HE IS RIGHT. WE GOT NO BUSINESS OVERSEAS... ALMOST ALL OF THEM HATE US anyway.

But hey rummyfan... you just been replaced by a foreigner.

ENJOY.

[expat_panama]

Paul Craig Roberts has been and still is a conservative economist....

Wait a second.  Anyone who says we'd be better off with Osama Bin Laden as president is not a conservative.

[Toddsterpatriot]

For example in Poland - a few years ago you could get 4 zlotys for a dollar, today you can get 3.1

Darn it, I guess I'll have to wait for the zloty to sink again before I take my big trip to Poland. Is the dollar decreasing against any major currencies?

[stand4somethin]

Sorry Freepers Against Buchanon... I agree with Pat. I know, I know.... he's a goofy and sometimes hostile little feller... but I think our relationship with China is a one way street to their prosperity and our slavery. We are already at a point of no return. If we cut ourselves free of Middle East oil... China would just buy it up. Once China gets a navy... and their workin' on it... you'll all wish we would have listened to that goofy little hostile feller Patty B !

[SuperOne]

hedge you are right... PAT'S PHILOSOPY IS VERY SIMPLE:

AMERICA AND AMERICANS FIRST!!!

[SuperOne]

your right----> AMERICA FIRST!

[CWOJackson]

Most midwest areas that are experiencing those problems are solidly Democrat already.

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's based on static, zero-sum, thinking. Essentially, they assume there is a finite of wealth to go around.

Protectionists are bad at math.

[A. Pole]

Allow Americans to trade freely in legal goods with the citizens of other nations.

What about medicines as it will reduce profits for the pharma corporations?

[Howlin]

PAT'S PHILOSOPY IS VERY SIMPLE:

It sure is!

"I'll say anything that keeps my face in front of the microphone, even if it hurts my country!"

[SuperOne]

nafta is a drug smuggling operation

[CWOJackson]

And history. In one of his latest screeds buchanan put forward some really bizarre views on WWII and the WoT.

[ex-snook]

"dont get me wrong ... the country was built by cheap labor imported in waves after waves... right now it is the mexicans. "

True enough. Now we don't need labor in the new 'information economy'. Now we export money and build up other countries and we will process information on how well they are doing so investors can find out where to invest.

[CWOJackson]

It's getting tougher and tougher being a shill for Hamas these days...or a cheerleader for the shill.