Comments on: Dismantling America

By: Allan Daniel

Allan Daniel — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:31:47 +0000

Globalization was not meant to be like this. China has monopolized trade when we should have been working with our neighbors, the Mexican and Central American nations. How did we end up in such a disaster of a deal?

By: Kerr Wilson

Kerr Wilson — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:36:19 +0000

In the UK we’re the same. We’re surviving in an economy of the greedy. Nobody wants to work for nothing, nobody wants to pay more than they have to and when you can have a chinese good shipped and delivered for the same price as 3 from the mainland, where’s the point in producing homemade items anymore?

By: Mastering the Art of Procrastination « Outside the Box

Mastering the Art of Procrastination « Outside the Box — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:43:27 +0000

[...] for instance, this informative article entitled DISMANTLING AMERICA from Patrick J. Buchanan posted on the American Conservative site this past March. In the article, [...]

By: Erica Brigid

Erica Brigid — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:41:26 +0000

Why is there such an obsession with having all our goods made in China, and only China? Fifty years ago we weren’t even speaking to them, and our economy didn’t suffer in the least. Today, if cheap shoddy imports are so vital to our economy, we can have them manufactured in Mexico, India, Brazil, or any number of East European countries, and probably save some money on the shipping. But why pass them all up infavor of China?

Could the real reason be that we are being used to prop up the world’s last major Communist regime?

By: Hot Tub Economics | Front Porch Republic

Hot Tub Economics | Front Porch Republic — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:12:43 +0000

[...] argument, given that, in absolute numbers, we remain the world’s largest manufacturer. But Patrick J. Buchanan , in “Dismantling America,” provides the sort of concrete clarity on this matter that I [...]

By: DLK

DLK — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:02:47 +0000

The American manufacturing decline equates to the financialization of the US economy. This is simply the next step in America’s economic demise, and thus, America’s overall decline. We all know that our childen and grandchildren will not have the same standard of living as we have experienced. More concerning, is how long our political system can last with a smaller and declining middle class. Were just beginning to experience the angst associated with high unemployment and allocation of diminishing resources.

By: Richard Ferris

Richard Ferris — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:36:20 +0000

Another good column in a long line of good columns by a P.B. long ago freed from the occupational bondage of organized politics and its paymasters on wall street and in ” corporate America ” . Too bad Pat didn’t tell these elite “internationalists” masquerading as patriots where to go when he had the power to make them listen. He must have some regrets.

By: William Dalton

William Dalton — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:33 +0000

I’m glad that Pat explains our disastrous trade imbalance results not from NAFTA and CAFTA, but from unrestricted import of Chinese goods. If our free trade agreements with neighboring countries, those in our hemisphere, work as intended, the Mexican and Central American economies would be prospering, the influence of the drug cartel would be less, and the flow of undocumented aliens from the South would be considerably less. Plus, these countries would be far more stable and far friendlier to the U.S. If we are to export any of our wealth abroad, this is where it should be, not to China and the Middle East, where only our enemies and potential adversaries are strengthened. Bring our troops home, rebuild the Great Wall of China, but let free trade build a sphere of influence and comity for us throughout the Americas and the Pacific – the future patrimony of our nation when the overpopulated continents of the Eastern Hemisphere are scrambling to exploit and live on their diminishing resources.

By: Jose R. Pardinas

Jose R. Pardinas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:55:04 +0000

I just don’t know how anybody – anybody in their right mind, that is – can possibly argue that unregulated markets are the answer to all our problems.

This Ayn Rand knee-jerk mentality so popular with Libertarians just doesn’t square with reality. One could argue that it’s a beautiful theory (like Communism or true Christianity) that has been killed by a nasty host of recalcitrant facts.

Look at what the unregulated banks did to this country over the last few years. Look at what American companies are doing – taking their jobs to Mexico, to India, to China, to…anywhere, but here.

To be bluntly colloquial: Unregulated capitalism just dont work!

By: Tony Versandi

Tony Versandi — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:53:39 +0000

The problem is not with Libertarian principles of individuals following their own self interest but instead a corruption of the free market system that rewards people who use government power and extortion of taxes to fund their corporations. A truly free market backed by hard currency would not permit for these fluctuations in currency value. Release restrictions on entrepreneurs, end the fed and lower taxes by ending spending on military adventurism and entitlements.

More collectivism/central planning will lead to the bottom of this rabbit hole and it’s a place none of us want to go.

By: Jack Tracey

Jack Tracey — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:25 +0000

It seems that a lot of the commenters on this column– including some who might otherwise call themselves Conservative– are schooled only in the Marxist/collectivist paradigm of economics. (Thank you public schools!) Please take some time to learn a more logical, less ideological, perspective: mises.org

Greed and the human desire for more, in general, will never go away. The problems of our economy are the result of the subversion of natural free-market principles: sanctity of private property, free and voluntary exchange, private responsibility for risk and consequences.

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:42:33 +0000

I am a big fan of this site, but protectianism is not a conservative principle. The USA has a lot to offer the world, the IPod is manufactured in China but who in the world says it is Chinese ? it is an American product.. If one has a productive workforce then one does not need to fear other competitors and try to set up barriers to that competition.

The US needs less red tape and government know it alls to tell businesses how to run themselves. Freedom implies free trade not “fair trade”, people should be able to choose who they want to trade with and what they want to buy, a nation that practices this the most will be the wealthiest.

By: Gordon P Welch

Gordon P Welch — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:53:30 +0000

My father was born in 1915, law degree by 1937, FBI agent, 1941 went to Japan as a Marine officer. He told me when everyone was worried about Russia (USSR) that China was who we should be concerned with.
Son they have a billion of them over there willing to work for a dollar a day!

By: Dr.D

Dr.D — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:50:50 +0000

Glenn Scheer is correct in saying that the root cause of most of our problems is the Federal Reserve. If we simply shut down that entity and went back to real money, backed by some commodity (gold, silver, oil, whatever), our economy would rapidly begin to right itself. Removing the Fed from the scene would prevent the government from meddling in the economy the way it does on a regular basis. It could still raise and lower taxes, make tariffs, etc., but it could not inflate and deflate the value of the currency as it today does at will. This is the root cause of our disaster in my opinion.

By: Jose R. Pardinas

Jose R. Pardinas — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:28:00 +0000

If I’m allowed, I’d like to complete to my previous post by saying that it is to this blind warthog of a force (i.e. unregulated Capitalism) – void of all sense of responsibility to its societal cradle – that Libertarians, Tea Partiers and many Republicans would like to hitch the future of the Republic.

I’d like to remind them that “he who tramples his own house shall inherit the wind.”