Allow me. Pat says the trade deficit is bad. Do you agree? Please explain why it's bad.
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.
The article isn't favorable to their God President Bush's economy, so they're trying to kill the messenger.
"....kinda strange how there's dozens and dozens of personal attacks against PJB yet no one (I stopped reading at about post 75) takes his article head on and disputes it..."
I haven't seen anyone dispute Pat's comments either.
Thanks for the post.