America's freedom is tied to her economic independence
Alexander Hamilton wrote: 'Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation...ought to endeavor to posses within itself all the essentials of
a national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense. ' America's political independence, Hamilton was saying, could not survive without economic independence. "
Source: Where The Right Went Wrong, by Pat Buchanan, p.153
Sep 1, 2004
Reduce dependence on trade; support Monroe Doctrine
For Americans, Buchanan’s book says, only America should matter. Buchanan rages against the UN, the WTO, and a previously unknown animal, “the managerial elites of the New World Order.” Allies in South-East Asia and Europe must do their own fighting,
and America must cut down its dependence on trade. The single pillar of American foreign policy should be the Monroe Doctrine; the country’s priorities are to guard against “hostile bastions in this hemisphere” and to try yo keep immigrants out.
Source: The Economist, p. 31
Oct 2, 1999
Match 100% tariffs from Japan & China
Today, we let Japan and China to run up a combined annual trade surplus of $120 billion, blithely allowing them open access to our markets while we pay up to 100% tariffs for entry into theirs. By equalizing tariffs so that imported goods carry the same
tax as American-made products, we can end the exploitation of US workers, and fund flatter taxes for families, fairer competition for business, and renewed economic liberty for all Americans.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues”
Jun 5, 1999
Trade deficit is “tumor in intestines of US economy”
Today Buchanan called the massive merchandise trade deficit-over $26 billion for February alone-a “malignant tumor in the intestines of the US economy. Unattended, it will one day kill this country’s tenure as the world’s mightiest industrial power,” Mr.
Buchanan said. “A $300 billion annual deficit will strip America of our manufacturing and production base. Manic consumption is a mark of a republic that has passed its apogee, and begun its long descent.”
Ross Perot and I stood up again against NAFTA. We stood up against GATT. We stood up against the World Trade Organization. We stood up against the $50 billion bailout of Mexico.
People ask, “Pat, why are you against NAFTA?” I said, “There are lots of reasons I’m against NAFTA. You do not force Americans making ten bucks an hour to compete with Mexicans who work for a dollar an hour.”
One year later, Mexico devalued the peso. American trade surplus disappeared. We now have a $15 billion trade deficit with Mexico, which means 300,000 American jobs were lost this year. Illegal immigration is soaring.
We are required to pay $50 billion to the government of Mexico. For whose benefit was that? It was not for the benefit of working Americans. It was for the benefit of investment bankers on Wall Street.
Buchanan branded the Clinton Administration’s trade deal with China a “complete sellout.” Buchanan said the agreement, reached on Nov. 15,
would continue a move toward world government at the expense of American workers. He said the minute he is elected president, “the new world order crashes.”
Source: Boston Globe, p. A6, “Political Briefs”
Nov 17, 1999
Impose tariffs on China; end World Bank loans
Beijing does not deserve the same preferential treatment as Britain. The US should negotiate a reciprocal treaty with China that imposes on its goods at least the same tariffs and taxes Beijing
imposes on ours, and we should veto any additional World Bank and Asian Development Bank loans to China. These are nothing but foreign aid.
Source: “A Republic, Not an Empire,” p.377
Oct 9, 1999
Match 100% tariffs from Japan & China
Today, we let Japan and China to run up a combined annual trade surplus of $120 billion, blithely allowing them open access to our markets while we pay up to 100% tariffs for entry into theirs. By equalizing tariffs so that imported goods carry the same
tax as American-made products, we can end the exploitation of US workers, and fund flatter taxes for families, fairer competition for business, and renewed economic liberty for all Americans.
Source: (Cross-ref from Free Trade & Immigration) www.GoPatGo.org/ “
Jun 14, 1999
China: Shame the regime & end trade concessions
We must neither ignore nor isolate China, but we cannot embrace as a “strategic partner” an expansionist power that perverts our elections, plunders our nuclear arsenal, and targets our cities. China’s ongoing oppression of women, Christians, Tibetans &
political dissidents is an affront to American values, but [we appease them] instead of shaming the regime. We have mollified China by allowing Beijing to run up a $274 billion trade surplus, but we still permit the purchase of our latest technology.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: China: Our MFN?”
Jun 12, 1999
China: End MFN; veto WTO entry; block technology
As President I will:
Call on Congress to suspend MFN until China closes its concentration camps, stops coercive abortions, and ceases the persecution of its people.
Block the transfer of any new high-tech military technology.
Require that
all Chinese imports are taxed at the same rate China imposes on goods from the US.
Maintain economic leverage over Beijing by rejecting admission of China to the World Trade Organization.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: China: Our MFN?”
Jun 12, 1999
Pat Buchanan on Globalization
Gobal Economy betrays working Americans
The elitist architects of GATT and NAFTA have locked arms with their corporate cohorts to support a trade policy that is neither fair nor free. This year we will incur a $300 billion trade deficit. The bulls run wild on Wall Street, corporate profits
and CEOs ring up record salaries. But in Middle America, our industrial base is eroding, factories are closing, and manufacturing jobs are moving overseas. America’s working men and women are being sacrificed to the Global Economy.
Source: Buchanan/Foster web site
Aug 6, 2000
Make IMF & World Bank ‘eat’ lost billions
If anyone should be forced to ‘eat’ these incredible losses of foreign aid loans, it is not US taxpayers, but international bankers at the IMF, World Bank, and other globalist institutions who deceived us when they said the loans were good.
If heads roll at the IMF and World Bank, and both institutions are docked for the losses for which they are responsible, this would be simple justice; and there will be a far greater likelihood that future lending will be more responsible.“
Source: Press Release
Apr 24, 2000
Smash OPEC: stop putting globalism ahead of patriotism
America needs a leader who will restore America’s economic independence, and map a strategy to smash the price-fixing conspiracy called OPEC once and for all. If Americans
are paying $2 a gallon for gas in June, it will be because of the lack of political courage and vision of Clinton and Gore, and their placing of globalism ahead of patriotism.
Source: Press Release
Mar 14, 2000
With Seattle WTO protestors against loss of sovereignty
Q: [Speaking with Buchanan in Seattle] Do you want to be associated with the WTO protestors who rioted in Seattle? A: No, not at all - they’re thugs and I’m against violence. But I’m protesting the idea of [loss of our] sovereignty and that an
international organization is making rules for us. Once we Americans pass a law, it’s OUR law, and none of the WTO’s business.
Source: The Howie Carr Show, WRKO Boston 680 AM
Dec 2, 1999
Trade shouldn’t trump environment, human rights, or security
The WTO elevates trade to the highest good. It is trade uber alles. Trade trumps the environment. Trade trumps human rights. It trumps the security of countries. It trumps the sovereignty of countries. It should
never have been created. Americans have had treaties with Russia and Great Britain and Japan throughout 200 years of history. We enforce the treaties, as do our partners in these treaties.
Source: Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer
Dec 1, 1999
“Good for global business” isn’t necessarily good for US
Global capitalists have become acolytes of global governance. They wish to see national sovereignty diminished and sanctions abolished. Where yesterday American businesses suffered damage to their good name for selling scrap iron to Japan before Pearl
Harbor, today [war materiel is routinely exported] to potentially hostile nations. Once it was true that what was good the Fortune 500 was good for America. That is no longer true, and what is good for America must take precedence.
Source: “A Republic, Not an Empire,” p.349
Oct 9, 1999
Globalists are wrong; dumping destroys towns
[Buchanan] opposes free trade and casts himself as the workingman’s champion. “The globalists in Washington... believe that all Americans are riding a wave of Wall Street prosperity,” he told the Independent Steelworkers Union in July. “But I have seen
factories close and towns destroyed by illegal steel dumping.”
Source: Jeff Jacoby editorial, Boston Globe
Sep 20, 1999
“Economic Nationalism”: trade only when it helps US
Rather than making “global free trade” a golden calf which we all bow down to, and worship, all trade deals should be judged by whether:
they maintain US sovereignty;
they protect vital economic interests;
and they ensure a rising standard
of living for all our workers.
We must stop sacrificingAmerican jobs on the altars of transnational corporations whose sole loyalty is to the bottom line.
In a Global Economy financial blunders from Mexico to Asia shake US markets. As our independence falters, our sovereignty erodes. In 1994, for the first time, the US joined a global institution, the WTO, where America has no veto power & the one-nation,
one-vote rule applies. Global interdependence is a betrayal of our heritage of liberty. As President, I will use the trade laws of this country and the power of my office to protect the independence of our country, and the sovereignty of the US.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: America First Trade Policy”
Jun 11, 1999
America’s workers are being sacrificed to the Global Economy, and our leaders seem deaf to their distress.
As President, I will:
Impose tariffs on cheap foreign imports
Prioritize the American Economy before the Global Economy by withdrawing
from international organizations that imperil our financial stability & economic independence
Open foreign markets to American products by requiring reciprocal trade policies
Protect vital industries by passing tough anti-dumping legislation.
Source: www.GoPatGo.org/ “Issues: America First Trade Policy”
Jun 11, 1999
NAFTA & GATT sold out America’s workers
The NAFTA-GATT trade deals sold out America’s workers, ravaged our manufacturing base & caused disruption in our small towns & farming communities. Our “trading partners” still impose 40% tariffs on US agricultural goods. Our once mighty steel industry
now begs relief from the World Trade Organization for problems that were caused by the Clinton-Gore headlong march into the New World Order. The Clinton-Gore trade policy is a betrayal of America’s workers, and virtual economic treason against the US.
Source: www.gopatgo2000.com/000-c-tradepolicy.html 5/28/99
May 28, 1999
GATT surrenders our national sovereignty
I oppose GATT [not only on groundsof unfair competition but because] it is the wholesale surrender of America’s national sovereignty to multilateral institutions and global organizations. What were they fighting and dying for [in the American
Revolution]? They were fighting and dying so that America would be sovereign-be free-be independent-and retain her liberty from all these world organizations from London and Brussels-from anywhere.
Source: [X-ref War] United We Stand America Conference, p.320
Aug 12, 1995
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