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...
Definitely close the border! A complete moratorium penalizes others though. But we aren't doing enough to discourage people from trying to be here illegally.
Make that, “upthread,” Pat. Upthread, downthread, you’ll hear it everywhere. But it is old.
I worked very hard for Pat Buchanan in his quest for the White House. If he had won, I wonder if we’d not be in this precarious position we are in with killer trade deficits, and many other problems we now face.
Agree .....maybe Pat wrote that chapter a few years ago........long time from proof read to press per se....
Let’s keep whistling in the dark
Pat is to political commentary what the first Black Sabbath album is to rock and roll: pure doom and gloom. At least Ozzy, Tony, Bill, and Geezer, however, were just pretending.
I might not agree with every word from Pat. But he is closer than anyone else, IMO.
And he has been closer for a long time.
So, yes, it seems to me that we'd not be in quite the precarious position as now if Pat had won.
That's painfully obvious to anyone paying attention.
But we can turn this around. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it to save America. The sooner we get started, the better.
I watch telemundo on occasion, and this morning featured “Conchoman”..
A sort of Superman whose man mission seemed to be tearing down the Wall on the Border, so families could head north..
No, I’m not making Conchoman up....but I may have misspelled his name.
Sergei! We agree! :) I think Duncan Hunter liked Pat Buchanan, too.
Agreed. Pat has his faults but he’s right more often than wrong. He sounds alarmist but I think we need some alarm bells. He’s particularly right about culture. I’m a big fan of R&R having been brought up in the 50s and 60s and I’m aware that R&R is not about limits, let alone boundaries. But we’re entering new territory when the “music” culture speaks of our mothers, sisters, and daughter as “bitches’ and “hos.” And the corporations could care less if they make a buck. Look at the Ford Motor Company and their business ties with their new poet laureate, a certain “Funkmaster Flex.” His “ballads” speak of the bloody anuses of young women. Shame on Ford. Check out some of the lyrics of this guy. They’re readily available. Amazing! These companies will stop at nothing if they can get a little more money. Thank God that we have people like Pat who will not be silenced as we enter the abyss.
Some people are just the last to know. ;-)
MSNBC still periodically identifies Buchanan as a “Republican Analyst.” He might be, but I think it’s funny.
“. . . a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville;...”
If fences don’t work the one around the White House should be taken down.
Without getting into a point by point consideration of Buchanan’s argument, I have to say I tend to agree with his conclusion; America is falling aprt, and often, IMO, seems to be in the throes of a prolonged national suicide.
Problem is, the sheeple don't notice.
1979 and the Carter Administration was a bleak year and Reagan, the Sunshine Conservative, said America's best days were yet to come.
I have no opinion on some of what PB says in the article, agree with a great deal of it, and disagree with the rest. Watch that sneaky GREE, get you every time. I predict it will be a best seller as soon as it is released, or before if that’s possible. He strikes a great many notes that ring true.
Oh, and Pat, who the fudge are you to start excluding people when you belong to a Church that is headquartered in Rome?
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