Conservatives AND Liberals should take notice of the 'hostage dollar'

[EVDebs]

July 4, 2005 Issue
The American Conservative

Who Owns the Dollar?
Our currency and our economy are held hostage by Asia.
by Paul Craig Roberts

http://amconmag.com/2005_07_04/article1.html#anchor

DUers should not be quick to criticize Roberts, who has called for Bush's impeachment, I must add. Knee-jerk reactions to Republican conservative ideas are counter-productive. Roberts, with this article and his call for impeachment, has given DUers a lot of ammunition to shoot the hell out of the other sides' positions. In fact, when you read the last paragraph of Pat Buchanan's Suicide by Free Trade article,

"Indeed, if the issue is jobs, Republicans ought to be thrown out. For not only are they not creating them, they have no idea how to stop exporting them. In their hearts, some of them think it a good thing. They are like the doctors of old who sincerely believed bleeding the patient was the way to get rid of the disease because that is what their textbooks and wise men told them"

www.amconmag.com/2004_04_12/buchanan.html

You can see that, deep down, they want to join DUers in restoring the once proud US economy. But they know only Democrats with common sense can do it, their own party has sold them out !

[billbuckhead]

1. I actually know that many moderate Republicans are looking for alternative

Hillary Clinton looks like a life raft to them. They think she will be good for business. They know the Bush-Rove Republicans are nuts and out of control. Main street longs for sanity. The media talks about Rupert Murdoch talking with her but many red state moderates look with nostalgia for the Clinton era and they know she is a tough cookie. To often, we loose moderate and independent votes cause it looks like liberals just don't want it enough. We left Al Gore, Tom Daschle, and John Kerry down. And they left us down. Something tells me that Hillary not only is made of tougher stuff but is possibly the most competent politician of our age.Surprisingly, i think she will shock those on the farther extremes of the right and the left, when she successfully attacks both sides from the middle through competence.

[AX10]

2. Wesley Clark is my choice. He'll be good for everyone's wallett.

Just as Clinton was, though Clark is more interesting in correcting the mistakes that caused ENRON & Co to occur. The CEO of Bank of America backed Kerry last year. He knew that Bush was no go for business.

[Warpy]

3. Yes, small business owners think she's a life raft

Unfortunately she looks like an anchor to their employees, who are drowning in business as usual.

We need somebody who will jack up taxes on the rich and corporate, ram through a decent minimum wage, and institute targeted tariffs to protect US jobs. Hillary Clinton just isn't that person and we all know it.

[EVDebs]

5. Yes. For awhile at least they HAVE to give up on globalization, read

Warren Buffett urges higher corporate taxes
www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0306-01.htm

and the full-length book version of that article, David Cay Johnston's excellent Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else, that shows the double-whammy of globalization (using our tax system's incentives to screw the middle class) and the Republican's overwhelming influence to not do anything to help balance the need for taxation equity and maintain the valid needs of government at all levels, federal state and local (their 'starve the beast' mentality),
means that HERE is a chance for Dems and progressives to educate our more conservative, and ill informed fellow citizens !

Businesses, especially those individuals and corporations making under $3 million annually, are realizing that pension and healthcare burdens being sloughed off already by multinational globalized corporations in the guise of keeping up with 'foreign competition'-- read themselves via foreign affiliates--puts the burden on THEM !

[necso]

4. Some of what Pat is saying here is

actually high praise of the Dems (coming from him).

Pat can come across as an intemperate reactionary (which he does at times quite deliberately), but he is a knowledgeable, skilled, cunning and dangerous opponent.

His shadow-play candidacy in 2000 was worthy of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

(frank appraisal.)