Oh boy Larry W.! Where should I start with you. You obviously do not understand economic and globalization.

Here are 4 videos that everyone SHOULD watch to understand what is going here right now in your country. If someone could embed them, it would be great:

Keynesian Economics is Wrong: Bigger Gov’t is Not Stimulus. (Dan Mitchell, Cato Institute)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxDyC7y7PM&eurl=http://www.antagoniste.net/

This one explains “Creative destruction” of jobs:
Mexicans and Machines: Reason.tv (Drew Cary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9csCerjfdE

This one explains why Obama is wrong and do not understand:
Obama Promises To Stop America’s shitty jobs From Going Overseas:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_promises_to_stop_americas?utm_source=embedded_video

This one explains why Ford cannot make it in America:
Ford’s Camaçari Plant
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ik6j_fords-camaari-plant_news

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Hard Right, I did not address the accusations that always are a’whirl around Buchanan as an anti-Semite. As I said, where the man excels is in history… most especially military strategy and economic history. He comes from the days when isolationism and protectionism weren’t dirty words.

However, INRE the anti-Semite charges… I often wonder why so many would believe that Reagan chose an “anti-Semite” for his communications director. Could it be because he is misjudged? From the things I do know about Buchanan… which are mostly confined to his books and writings, I’ve never seen the anti-Semite side. However I am not in full possession of what facts the accusers put forth. I’ll read your links. However this does not change my opinion of him as an economic and military historian.

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BTW, I thought Pat’s book was more recent than 1998-9. I was wrong.

Little Green Footballs has a lot of info on Pat’s nazi loving ways and that of his father.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30663_Neo-Nazis_Heart_Pat_Buchanan
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30650_Buchanan_Blames_Israel_and_AIPAC_for_High_Gas_Prices
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30593_Pat_Buchanan_Appears_on_Neo-Nazi_Radio_Show
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30416_Pat_Buchanan-_Hitler_Didnt_Plan_to_Kill_the_Jews

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-search.php?searchString=pat+buchanan

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Mata, unfortunately Buchanan (aka Pukecannon) has recently shown himself to be a rabid anti-semite and nazi lover. He has also aligned himself with the Belgium political group Vlaams Belang a bunch if Ultra Nationalist neo-nazi lovers. He outed himself some time ago in his book.
A Republic, Not an Empire
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/patbuchanan1.html

Here’s one link on him.
http://www.realchange.org/buchanan.htm

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I have no idea what happened to my post when I tried to edit it so I erased the whole thing. wierd stuff.

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I can tell by the comments here that few have read Buchanan’s 1998 very excellent book, The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy.

Think what you like of Buchanan personally, but where the man genuinely excels is in history.

The linked column is a very abbreviated synopsis of Buchanan’s book. However to know how he got from there, you actually have to read it. i.e. if you’ve never heard of the Auto Pact of 1965 by LBJ with Canada, that stated for every care sold in Canada, one would have to be built in Canada, then this book will fill you in on the history of not only the auto industry, but all our manufacturing… and it’s gradual demise. This starting back from colonial days, walking thru the Sugar and Townsend Acts, and forward. It’s truly a great read, and dedicated solely to one subject… American economy, and the events that affected it… good and bad.

You’ll learn how George Washington was adamant that the US maintain our basic needs within our borders, like steel, textiles, etal. He was truly a product of the west, and shunned any dependence upon Britain or Europe.

What is most fascinating is prior to the Great Wars, the US was not only in the black, but had surpluses. Then again, it was the time of tariffs and protectionism. This worked out well in the times when int’l trade and shipping wasn’t so easy. In modern times, I doubt the same principle could work.

But you’ll learn much on Buchanan’s walk thru American history of trade and economics. This has been his biggest beef for decades…. watching industrial American slip into oblivion… and thereby our economic power and potential. I’m not sure he has absolute answers, but I do know that I’d like to hear more of what Buchanan believes is a solution in the context of history performance. He’s not a man to be discounted on this particular issue.

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I’m not endorsing all of Buchanan’s points of view. I think, however, that he is correct in pointing out that the actions of Southern politicians, such as Shelby and DeMint, were not entirely based on principled conservatism, but were also infused with motives of protecting and growing their own (albeit foreign-owned) automobile industries. Also, there is certainly a degree of hypocrisy in not acknowledging the considerable taxpayer subsidies paid on behalf of the foreign auto assembly plants in those states.

I agree that this was a golden opportunity to restructure the American auto industry labor contracts. I hope that Bush gets Gettlefinger to agree to contract restructuring, but it appears that he’s moving forward with his own personal backdoor bail out.

Yes, Clinton and the GOP partnered on NAFTA, which I supported then and continue to support.

I don’t consider it to be a serious argument to call someone a “nutcase.” I’m more impressed by a specific counter-argument to a specific point. Even “nutcases” are occasionally correct.

- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA

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It’s not just foreign investors that have received incentives to build and bring jobs to the various states, the big 3 auto companies have also received plenty of tax incentives from the states they operate in. Bad management and high labor costs have created this problem.

What do you want Larry, shut down the competition or should the union and the big 3 get serious about figuring out how to stay in business? It’s not the fault of the taxpayers, the Republicans or the guy next door that this has happened. No one should have a guilt trip laid on them because they don’t see sense in throwing billions on their problem today, again in three months, again in another short period of time. The root of the problem is corporate management and union leadership. Those are the two that have to budge and stop blaming everyone else for what they have wrought. They had a chance with Senator Corker’s direction, they blew it.

Republican globalists caused the migration of our jobs? baloney. Buchanan’s a nutcase. Clinton also had a big hand in greasing the jobs leaving the US skids.

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=789_0_2_0

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Mr. Weisenthal,

I am sure that you also believe that George W. Bush signed NAFTA too, right?

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Pat Buchanan has an interesting “take” on all of this:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29926

Is the Republican Party so fanatic in its ideology that, rather than sin against a commandment of Milton Friedman, it is willing to see America written forever out of this fantastic market, let millions of jobs vanish and write off the industrial Midwest?

So it would seem. “Companies fail every day, and others take their place,” said Sen. Richard Shelby on “Face the Nation.”

Presumably, the companies that will “take their place,” when GM, Ford and Chrysler die, are German, Japanese or Korean, like the ones lured into Shelby’s state of Alabama, with the bait of subsidies free-market Republicans are supposed to abhor.

In 1993, Alabama put together a $258 million package to bring a Mercedes plant in. In 1999, Honda was offered $158 million to build a plant there. In 2002, Alabama won a Hyundai plant by offering a $252 million subsidy.

“We have a number of profitable automakers in America, and they should not be disadvantaged for making wise business decisions while failure is rewarded,” says Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.

DeMint is referring to “profitable automakers” like BMW, which sited a plant in Spartanburg, after South Carolina offered the Germans a $150 million subsidy and $80 million to expand.

Buchanan continues:

But why this “Let-them-eat-cake!” coldness toward U.S. auto companies? General Motors employs more workers than all these foreign plants combined. And, unlike Mitsubishi, General Motors didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor.

Do these Southern senators understand why the foreign automakers suddenly up and decided to build plants in the United States?

It was the economic nationalism of Ronald Reagan.

When an icon of American industry, Harley-Davidson, was being run out of business by cutthroat Japanese dumping of big bikes to kill the “Harley Hog,” Reagan slapped 50 percent tariffs on their motorcycles and imposed quotas on imported Japanese cars. Message to Tokyo. If you folks want to keep selling cars here, start building them here.

Fear of Reaganism brought those foreign automakers, lickety-split, to America’s shores, not any love of Southern cooking.

Do the Republicans not yet understand how they lost the New Majority coalition that gave them three landslides and five victories in six presidential races from 1968 to 1988? Do they not know why the Reagan Democrats in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan are going home?

The Republican Party gave their jobs away!

How? By telling U.S. manufacturers they could shut plants here, get rid of their U.S. workers, build factories in Mexico, Asia or China, and ship their products back, free of charge.

Republican globalists gave U.S. manufacturers every incentive to go abroad and take their jobs with them, the jobs of Middle America.

And, for 30 years, that is what U.S. manufacturers have done, have been forced to do, as their competitors closed down and moved their plants abroad in search of low-wage Third World labor.

It’s Herbert Hoover time in here, Vice President Cheney is said to have told the Senate Republicans — as they prepared to march out onto the floor and turn thumbs down on any reprieve for General Motors.

In today’s world, America faces nationalistic trade rivals who manipulate currencies, employ nontariff barriers, subsidize their manufacturers, rebate value-added taxes on exports to us and impose value-added taxes on imports from us, all to capture our markets and kill our great companies. And we have a Republican Party blissfully ignorant that we live in a world of us or them. It doesn’t even know who “us” is.

We need a new team on the field and a new coach who believes with Vince Lombardi that “winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”

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