[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!

[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.

[ParityErr]

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

[ex-snook]

Pat riles them up because he puts the good of American citizens before all others.

Unable to refute Pat's truth, smearers are reduced to name-callers.

[logician2u]

Pat Buchanan says:

Again, when can we say a free-trade policy has failed?

Logician2u says, why do people like Buchanan continue to think NAFTA is free trade?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

When NAFTA was up for a vote in 1993, the Clintonites and their GOP fellow-travelers said it would grow our trade surplus

What trade surplus? Has the US even had a trade surplus since the 1960's?

This has nothing to do with NAFTA and everything to do with GATT and the Roosevelt era policy reducing tarriffs.

[elhombrelibre]

Pat wants to give US tax dollars to Hamas, but he doesn't want us to employ Mexicans or buy things from Asians. Weird man.

[krunkygirl]

save

[steadfastconservative]

Maybe the Democrats should hire Buchanan. He sounds alot like Clinton did in 1992 when he blathered on about how this country was suffering through the worse economy in 50 years.

[q_an_a]

Pat is an idiot. when software is shipped out the country it is billed - often for tax purposes - at the cost of the media not the product. So a $100 export might be for 5 million. We export a chip plant to Isreal, does every bit of the intellectual captial get added to the install - NO!!