Posted on 02/15/2006 10:42:45 AM PST by SirLinksalot
How is business violating anyone's rights by buying and manufacturing where it is cheapest?
Do you believe business has a duty to provide jobs? Or to be profitable to its private owners?
Yes, all of his articles have the same central theme.
If you want to defend the article you can start at the beginning and explain his opening: "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?"
His idea is that our freedom to spend our money is bad because it made a trade deficit. He didn't mention that it also made a capital surplus, that's paid for the trade deficit, and the result of all this is that the total private net worth in America has increased by $4 trillion dollars this past year. This increase in wealth not only is good for us personally, but it makes our nation strong as well.
Your posting name suggests that you don't like taxes. Let's be consistent-- tariffs are taxes. Buchanan and his followers talk about things like wealth, taxes, security, and patriotism, but they lack the self discipline to actually study and understand what they're talking about. So far, they're a public joke. If they ever get what they want politically, they'll be a menace to the nation.
Take nonfood products, such as hides and skins, from the equation, and the United States now imports more food than it exports, according to the trade figures.
--Feds predict farming income to take a dive
If you believe me unAmerican it is because you don't understand our system of Government.
A controlled economy for the general welfare is a socialist model, not an American one.
pat puts pat first...always has, always will.
Pat seems to have a problem with Jooooooos. Have you noticed?
Unless of course you consider undermining our troops and the WoT putting America first.
4% of $12 trillion is $480 billion. Just the trade deficit is about $700 billion.
Of his last six articles, pat has attacked the President in all of them and Israel in four of them. I think he hates the President even more the Jews.
But then, that's just Pat...ALL of the Jews weren't killed and Israel exists. That is ASHES in his mouth and a loss to him!
So, you want Americans to be forced to pay more for American goods? Why don't you come out and say so? You like paying triple the world price for sugar? What else would you like to pay triple for? How about only using American oil? Would paying $180 a barrel for American oil be good for the economy?
It is you who bring the topic of Jews into discussion. What is your problem?
Well not if you buy American made products. I assume when you post that the nation is better off, you have already taken into consideration the government borrowing security obligations and unfunded social liabililies. But the probably mean this generation is better off, screw the next.
Is that the kind of job you want Americans to regain primacy over?
BTW...Miss Cleo, how do you know that another poster has been "replaced by mexican" (sic) ?
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