Posted on 11/25/2007 5:58:15 PM PST by Travis McGee
NEW BUCHANAN BOOK DECLARES 'END OF AMERICA'
Sun Nov 25 2007 20:40:15 ET
**Exclusive**
“America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide.”
The best-selling author and former presidential candidate is on the eve of launching his new epic book: DAY OR RECKONING: HOW HUBRIS, IDEOLOGY AND GREE ARE TEARING AMERICA APART.
This time, Buchanan goes all the way:
"America is in an existential crisis from which the nation may not survive."
The U.S. Army is breaking and is too small to meet America’s global commitments.
The dollar has sunk to historic lows and is being abandoned by foreign governments.
U.S. manufacturing is being hollowed out.
The greatest invasion in history, from the Third World, is swamping the ethno-cultural core of the country, leading to Balkanization and the loss of the Southwest to Mexico.
The culture is collapsing and the nation is being deconstructed along the lines of race and class.
A fiscal crisis looms as the unfunded mandates of Social Security and Medicare remain unaddressed.
All these crises are hitting America at once -- a perfect storm of crises.
Specifically, Buchanan contends:
• Pax Americana, the era of U.S. global dominance, is over. A struggle for global hegemony has begun among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam
• Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a product of hubris and of ideology, a secular religion of “democratism,” to which Bush was converted in the days following 9/11
• Torn asunder by a culture war, America has now begun to break down along class, ethnic and racial lines.
• The greatest threat to U.S. sovereignty and independence is the scheme of a global elite to erase America’s borders and merge the USA, Mexico and Canada into a North American Union.
• Free trade is shipping jobs, factories and technology to China and plunging America into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush
• “Sovereign Wealth Funds,” controlled by foreign regimes and stuffed with trillions of dollars from U.S. trade deficits, are buying up strategic corporate assets vital to America’s security
• As U.S. wages are stagnant, corporate CEOs are raking in rising pay and benefits 400 to 500 times that of their workers
• The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to our survival as one nation than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq
* European-Americans, 89% of the nation when JFK took the oath, are now 66% and sinking. Before 2050, America is a Third World nation
• By 2060, America will add 167 million people and 105 million immigrants will be here, triple the 37 million today.
• Hispanics will be over 100 million in 2050 and concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans believe belongs to them
Buchanan’s Recommendations:
• A new foreign-defense policy that closes most of the 1000 bases overseas, reviews all alliances, and brings home U.S. troops
• A purge of neoconservative ideology and the “Cakewalk” crowd” from national power.
• To avert a second Cold War, the United States should “get out of Russia’s space and get out of Russia’s face,” and shut down all U.S. bases on the soil of the former Soviet Union
• To reach a cold peace in the culture war, Buchanan urges a return to federalism and the overthrow of our judicial dictatorship by Congressionally mandated restrictions on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
• To end the trade deficits and save the dollar, Buchanan urges a Hamiltonian solution: a 20% Border Equity Tax on imports, with the $500 billion raised to be used to end taxation on American producers
• To prevent America becoming “a tangle of squabbling nationalities” Buchanan urges: No amnesty for the 12-20 million illegal aliens; a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville; Congressional declarations that children born to illegal aliens are not citizens and English is the language of the United States; and a “timeout” on all immigration.
Developing...
“We ship all our jobs to China. All our money. Our knowledge of how to make things. Our patents. Intellectual property. Our technological capabilities. We fund our government by borrowing over a trillion dollars from China — resulting in a collapsing national currency.
And China is financially dependent on us?? “
Except we haven’t shipped all of our jobs to China, or remotely anything close to all of our money, or our knowledge, or our patents, our currency hasn’t collapsed (if you think this is a collapse, you’re more sunk than I think), and it hasn’t weakened simply as a product of our borrowing from the Chinese.
But other than that, yeah, it’s exactly as you describe.
Never has been, never will be.
was a footnote in history class... had some good pasta... a little bit of cool art... but other than that listen:
I remember my first beer.
I do not disagree, but that will never happen.
I’d really be interested to see you, or anyone else who thinks like you, to go down his list point by point and explain where Pat has it wrong. Don’t care what you think of him personally, but he is not far off in many of his contentions, and dead on with others.
Pat's worldview has hardly changed at all in a very long time.
Only his demeanor has changed -- become more mellow and detached, it seems to me.
If it suits you purposes to hurl at him a clichéed and insulting caricature of what it means to reach early senior status...hey, enjoy.
That aside, China would collapse like a pyramid of cards if the US decided to slap import duties on Chinese goods...not to mention the fact that the Chinese hold US paper that is worth less and less to them not us. Not to mention the fact that more and more Chinese are chafing at the bit to buy more imported goods...Some Italian Guccis but mainly stuff from where else - the US.
We are creating a mega market that will blow all other markets away into the dustbin of history. And another side benefit is that emerging markets are forcing sometimes neanderthal US industries and labor to change the way they do business forcing them to innovate. Finally!
Tomorrow is a work day.
You should set your alarm clock, if you’re going to sleep.
I always heard bear taste very bad.
“Boycot China...”
I’m with you on that, but the problem is: when wages are low, and the third world lives on two-hundred dollars a year, they won’t be buying beautifully made Amish toys for their children like I’m doing this year. Most of the world has to buy cheap. Remember the lines on Black Friday to get the TVs and digital cameras for half, or less? Price is everything, but you are right, they have us by the short hairs.
Pat Buchanan is a very intelligent man who has long-since discredited himself with his reflexive Jew-hatred and pro-NAZI sympathies. As I recall it was Pat, as a Reagan aid, who scheduled the President to lay a wreath on SS graves at Bitburg, Germany. A long-standing joke about Buchanan is that his books and articles all read better in the original German. I consider Pat a tragic figure, since in terms of pure ability there is no one in American public life who is smarter than he is; except probably our brilliant Chief Justice John Roberts.
Hey, Pat! I'd much rather be surrounded by Mexicans than be surrounded by your Arab buddies.
Glad to see at least one other person sees the parallel with the fall of the British empire. They all laughed at Enoch Powell back then and he turned out to be on target.
I see it’s still fashionable to bash Buchanan on FR. Odd, since he’s a more authentic conservative than about 85% of the posters here....
Pat, sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here.
Right. The U.S. has no money (I suppose because the dollar is weakened), but Russia - now they’ve got all kinds of money, apparently, since they’re going to be challenging us for global hegemony.
I have to agree with Pat on this one. America is coming apart, and unless we make drastic changes right now, we are committing suicide!
I don’t know why you think “more Chinese are chafing at the bit to buy more imported goods...”
I don’t agree with that, at all.
It’s true, Chinese are becoming quite rich. They want to own things.
Except they don’t really care if they’re imported. Why should they? Most everything now, is made in China.
Bet you can’t find 5 things within eyesight of where you are sitting right now, which were not made in China.
Your computer. Mouse. Display. Keyboard. All slam dunks. Your television is from China. The iPod you listen to.
Your cell phone. Your stereo. The clothes you are wearing.
We need to wake up. This problem is now, very very serious.
Charming...
Excellent point.
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