Say goodbye to the golden land

World Net Daily ^ | November 27, 2002 | Pat Buchanan

[Sparta]

Bump!!!

[dagar]

Living in the PRC Bump!

[2banana]

Ayn Rand Bump!!!!

[xrp]

Funny how the article doesn't mention that if government spending were cut back to the pre-market bubble days (let's push it back to about 1994 or 1995) then present day tax intakes would be sufficient to cover what government would be requiring in spending. If peoples' incomes and the economy can suffer a recession and setbacks, then why can't government spending?

[MissAmericanPie]

NY and Cali are third world cess pools that will tap D.C. on the shoulder to pick the pockets of productive Americans, nation wide, to continue to float their illegal immigrant boat.

Before the elections Davis was already tapping D.C. on the shoulder to cover the expense of their socially engineered electricty crisis, in which Americans nation wide are expected to make up the difference between what energy costs and the socialist ceiling placed on how much the California customer can be charged for energy use.

Instead of learning from their mistakes and failed ideology, they want to continue their expensive errors no matter how glaring. Not content to keep their cancer within their state borders they demand it's spread be financed by the rest of the country. I don't like that pip squeak Ross Perot, but he was right when he said there would be a giant sucking sound as America's manufacturing left the country.

Globalist politicans knew good and well when they signed GAT and NAFTA that it was anti-American, and this administration is just as guilty in it's desire to dissolve our sovereign borders and turn America into a third world flop house.

[Sparta]

Globalist politicans knew good and well when they signed GAT and NAFTA that it was anti-American, and this administration is just as guilty in it's desire to dissolve our sovereign borders and turn America into a third world flop house.

I must repectfully disagree about GATT and NAFTA. I believe both trade deals, while not perfect, had a huge effect in creating the recent prosperity.

[Willie Green]

Debt incurred by State and Local Government adds another $1.4 Trillion to the $6.3 Trillion National Debt racked up by the federal government. That's a total of $7.7 Trillion placed on the backs of taxpayers, and doesn't incude household debt that individuals are personally responsible for.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Somebody tell Pat it's almost 2003, not 1995. California's net loss of population was reversed a long time ago. We have our problems here but it is not all doom and gloom as Pat says. I bet he justs hates staying in some run down hotel, sipping a cold one by the pool, watching the sun slowly set off Malibu when he's out here on his latest book tour.

Why does anyone pay this guy to write anymore. Oh, I forgot, it's World Net Daily.

[Willie Green]

If peoples' incomes and the economy can suffer a recession and setbacks, then why can't government spending?

Senators Give Raise To Themselves -- Measure To Halt Increase Rejected

[billybudd]

Pat substitutes an "everything's-going-to-sh!t" screed for thoroughgoing analysis, lumping the loss of manufacturing jobs with the recession and market decline, as if a cause-effect relationship is established because all are unwelcome events. Yes, we all know how much Pat glorifies the American "worker", toiling away all day at the coal mine or on the assembly plant, or whatever, and wishing the old times would just come back. Sorry Pat, but the economy has changed. Manufacturing only accounts for a fraction of the economy. And the recession and market decline were caused by speculation, hype, bad predictions, bad accounting, regulations, and an inflow of newbie investors.
A suggestion: stick to demographics rather than economics.

[Sparta]

Bump!! Adolf Buchanan needs to stick to what he does best, kissing Arab ass, trashing Jews, and rabble-rousing against Bush and anyother mainstream conservatives. Leave the borders and economics to people who know what they are talking about.

[xrp]

Heh...and who would you recommend regarding the borders? No one seems to be doing a damn thing about that ;)

[trebb]

Why don't these idiots ever mention that the original "salad days" were a direct result of Reaganomics, and the latter ones were a result of Clinton taxing the prosperity out of existence and then using bad accounting procedures to hide the decline until it really built up a head of steam?

Another nice thing to mention would be how some States/Cities actually did maintain fiscal responsibility and either declined to raise taxes, or actually cut them.
Now, the worst that most of those affected citizens haev to go through is a re-institution of taxes that had been cut. Whereas the other places that kept finding new ways to throw the largess away are now deeply in debt....

[Sparta]

That would be Tom Tancredo. Buchanan is just a publicity whore.

[happygrl]

An ex-Californian here - left 5 weeks ago for reasons other than thse in the article, but I will attest to its truth. The golden days are over; Los Angeles will resemble the rust-belt and eastern cities of the 1970s in short order.

[happygrl]

P.S. "Buh -bye !!"

[TopQuark]

That 70 percent fall in the NASDAQ and 25 percent decline in the Dow, and the recession and unemployment they produced, have begun to cause major collateral damage to municipal and state budgets.

More stupidity from Buchanan: the stock market produces recession and unemployment.

What a moron. He should read a bit more and write a bit less.

[TopQuark]

And the point of these statistics is...