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Posted: 11/26/2007 6:51:15 PM EDT
NEW BUCHANAN BOOK DECLARES 'END OF AMERICA'
Sun Nov 25 2007 20:40:15 ET **Exclusive** "America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," declares Pat Buchanan. "For we are on a path to national suicide." The best-selling author and former presidential candidate is on the eve of launching his new epic book: DAY OF RECKONING: HOW HUBRIS, IDEOLOGY AND GREED ARE TEARING AMERICA APART. [The book's release date has been moved up to this week. It ranked #237 on AMAZON's hitparade Monday morning.] This time, Buchanan goes all the way: "America is in an existential crisis from which the nation may not survive." The U.S. Army is breaking and is too small to meet America’s global commitments. The dollar has sunk to historic lows and is being abandoned by foreign governments. U.S. manufacturing is being hollowed out. The greatest invasion in history, from the Third World, is swamping the ethno-cultural core of the country, leading to Balkanization and the loss of the Southwest to Mexico. The culture is collapsing and the nation is being deconstructed along the lines of race and class. A fiscal crisis looms as the unfunded mandates of Social Security and Medicare remain unaddressed. All these crises are hitting America at once -- a perfect storm of crises. Specifically, Buchanan contends: • Pax Americana, the era of U.S. global dominance, is over. A struggle for global hegemony has begun among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam • Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a product of hubris and of ideology, a secular religion of “democratism,” to which Bush was converted in the days following 9/11 • Torn asunder by a culture war, America has now begun to break down along class, ethnic and racial lines. • The greatest threat to U.S. sovereignty and independence is the scheme of a global elite to erase America’s borders and merge the USA, Mexico and Canada into a North American Union. • Free trade is shipping jobs, factories and technology to China and plunging America into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush • “Sovereign Wealth Funds,” controlled by foreign regimes and stuffed with trillions of dollars from U.S. trade deficits, are buying up strategic corporate assets vital to America’s security • As U.S. wages are stagnant, corporate CEOs are raking in rising pay and benefits 400 to 500 times that of their workers • The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to our survival as one nation than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq * European-Americans, 89% of the nation when JFK took the oath, are now 66% and sinking. Before 2050, America is a Third World nation • By 2060, America will add 167 million people and 105 million immigrants will be here, triple the 37 million today. • Hispanics will be over 100 million in 2050 and concentrated in a Southwest most Mexicans believe belongs to them Buchanan’s Recommendations: • A new foreign-defense policy that closes most of the 1000 bases overseas, reviews all alliances, and brings home U.S. troops • A purge of neoconservative ideology and the “Cakewalk” crowd” from national power. • To avert a second Cold War, the United States should “get out of Russia’s space and get out of Russia’s face,” and shut down all U.S. bases on the soil of the former Soviet Union • To reach a cold peace in the culture war, Buchanan urges a return to federalism and the overthrow of our judicial dictatorship by Congressionally mandated restrictions on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. • To end the trade deficits and save the dollar, Buchanan urges a Hamiltonian solution: a 20% Border Equity Tax on imports, with the $500 billion raised to be used to end taxation on American producers • To prevent America becoming “a tangle of squabbling nationalities” Buchanan urges: No amnesty for the 12-20 million illegal aliens; a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville; Congressional declarations that children born to illegal aliens are not citizens and English is the language of the United States; and a “timeout” on all immigration. Developing... |
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Maybe the reason us old fogies are screaming is that we lived in and remember how great this country was. What we see now is a shell of it's former self. I agree with most of his contentions. However, he seems to be an isolationist which I don't agree is the right tact to take. Just my .02
Brett |
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This part:
Scared me the most. |
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Within this great Country of ours is a tremendious rift between good and evil, now before you take issue with what I'm suggesting take an intellectually honest view of our surroundings:
There are many people with virtues as honesty, integrety, charity, Christianity, work ethic,... likewise there are those who think the world owes them something, who think nothing of stealing or killing to fulfill their wants, dispicable actions in Public Office, mis-representation, that brodcast media promotes programming that's highly risque at a minimum.... God is out, Hedinism is in....no wonder the true believers of Islam think we're the Devil, just watch MTV or the evening news. Right here, right now I will stand on this premis: I believe in God the Father and his only son Jesus Christ, likewise I believe that he will come again to pass judgement and that the book of Revelation might be fulfilled within our days. Deep down inside you may feel the same way, why else would you horde ammunition, take combative training, store food and supplies? That's called being prepaired for TSHTF, well I wonder where the "schitt" will come from? Ironically a Christian spouting these words would be considered a nut-job, but for a Muslim it's sacred and we must respect it. The book offers some valid points that must be considered, maby they are not the answers, but maby they're a damn good start. |
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I guess he'll do anything to keep two guys from marrying, with all that Judicial Actvism the fundies babble about. Even if it means other cases will now be controlled by the tyranny of the majority via congress.
Rife hedonism will be the corrupting force that topples radical Islam far faster than any bomb will. Corrupt their children with drugs, sex and materialism and they'll be disconnected from their conservative parents (just as it did to the kids of Christan parents in Europe and the USA). Killing their parents or relatives (good or bad) will just make them cling closer to their remaining fundie kin for saftey and keep up the cycle of adherance to religion. |
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Unless I'm reading this wrong, we are i agreement. "Killing their parents or relatives..." might very well cement the hatered in their hearts for us, but it will not change our mission there. |
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I recall watching some documentary about a child genius on TV. He predicted the United States would fall as the roman empire did. I can see a lot of similarities and it scares me.hock.gif
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All empires fall eventually, its not something unique to the Romans. |
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As much as I agree with most of this and disagree with some I still believe the United States of America is by far the best country to live in. As long as Americans don't forget that we will always be #1
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The idea is to survive as long as possible....we DO hold the record for the longest, continious, free Government in history. |
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Washington DC and all the state capitols need a good purging or enema. But this is a govenment elected by the people and if the people are that stupid and elect assholes and allow corruption (like NJ), then we have no one to blame but ourselves (not us, mostly our stupid neighbors). Most of us ARF's and non-sheeple see thru the vails of BS, but the masses that enjoy Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are the main problem IMHO. I'd love to see all network / cable TV go black for a few months and let people rediscover a library and reading a newspaper. Not that it would cure all, but the MSM really deserves to take a serious hit.
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Damn kids and their devil music, ban that as well while where at it... |
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It figures that I would offend a Dancing with the Stars or American Idol fan. I figure that sarcasm is part of your response. I may sound like a fudd, but the Reality TV BS, like Growing Up Gotti, etc., has people divorced from reality which is ironic since it is supposed to be reality. Dirty Jobs should be the true reality show, to illustrate to kids where they could wind up with just "getting by" which seems to be the goal of most Americans. Too many of us have lost the will to be morale and to be the best we can be. Corruption on so many levels is killing this once great nation and the ones that fell prior to us. |
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There where dumb people before reality TV, old people just like to put blame on things rather than look at their generations shortcoming and consequences. |
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By your comment, it would seem that young people are also subject to the same quote. "I'm a victim, so I'm not to blame". Einstine said: "There are only two infinate things: The Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the first." |
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Eng of Goggle, why do you even post here?
90% of everything that you post runs contrary to the common threads here. Let me guess, you're a Democrat, a techno geek and still lives at home with mom...am I warm here? You my By the way, I am not looking at any particular generation, the stupid reality shows exist because they span generations. "There where dumb people before reality TV, old people just like to put blame on things rather than look at their generations shortcoming and consequences." No shit genius. I'm sorry but I lack the control not to say this..."There where dumb people before reality TV"....your parents had you, right? Let me guess, you are one of the Gen X'ers that are angry at their parents for giving them everything, except the ability to take responsibility for their own actions? Your responses are realing starting to paint the picture of a Gen X'er who is angry because they will never amount to ANYTHING close to a Boomer or The Greatest Generation. Deal with it dude, it is not to late to grow up and be part of the solution verses a sideline critic enabling the lame. Nuff said here on my part. I have to go and continue my part to raise my four children to be responsible, good citizens, who understand things don't come easy and that they need to pull some weight around the house. Time to gather leaves |
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I'm still at college, somewhat of a techno geek and live at home to finish off my last credits for my major while interning for consultant work. Not a democrat, though I despise the nannying religious right and morality anti drug/porn/sex/condom/etc brigade that comes a s a 2-for-1 deal with many Republican or conservative candidates, enough that I wont vote for them if the negatives stack up vs them being pro-gun (single-issue voting is for scrubs). To boil it down, I believe in the freedom to do what one wants if it doesn't physically hurt another person intentionally, any intteruption is pure nanny-statism, whether its gun grabbing and pc-bullshit or telling people what they cant put in their bodies or listen to on the radio/TV. I have vonteered in the past when I had more time, I worked my way up in scouting to eagle (Though I left a few years after due to time contstraints and my inabilty to like their moral rule bs in regards to gays and athiests that would have excluded many good people I know who just happen to differ in one way or another from the people scouts have no problem with). I deride this thread and others since they wreak of old men bickering about kids they didn't raise right and then go to blame current culture for the problems. It also seems to be a recurrent theme in light of history, going all they way back to the Rennisance and the hate the conservative factions had for the new science, culture and trade of the time. |
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+1 America is still the greatest country in the world. |
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Yes it is the greatest country on the planet,no thanks to the young snotnose libtards! |
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Kid, until you a get a job, get married and raise a family you have a lot to learn. As Mr T once said, "I pity the fool". |
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Google needs a little time ''out in the field''.
he is one of the reason we have the America we see today. |
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+ 1 u got that right!!!!! |
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What exactly do I do that ruins the nation? |
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VOTE! |
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I actually vote very little (locally at least), since nearly every candidate fails to meet my satisfaction of being pro-gun, anti-prohibition, and overall pro-individual rights. I would go "lol, RP" if it was feasable, but everyone else seems utterly full of fail and either wanting gun grabbing or push the WOT stuff thats going to slide us into a police state sooner enough. |
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I know the feeling. I continue to vote for the republican candidates knowing very well the dems will blow them away overall. The majority of NJ voters are the " gimme crowd ". let alone the rest of the country |
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I voted once for a republican (for Senate) in a quasi-single issue "hope he'll be pro-gunish" vote awhile back, then looked back disgusted when I read he cock-blocked needle exchange programs in NJ (common in other states) for petty reason he wouldn't elaborate on other than oft-repeated DARE propaganda. After that I said to myself the candidate has to have 2/3-3/4 of issues I like or he wont get my vote. Cuts me off bigtime but it keeps my conscious clear. That said, I'd pick the least of evils in this election (Obama or Fred, whoever looks viable vs the Hillary, Rommey or Rudy doomsday scenario) since I think things are a bit perilous at this point with her or the creepy-club Republican "front-runners" right now. |
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You coming down from a plagarized middle-eastern tome of "morality" doesn't make such acts wrong either.
Simple: Dont listen to such stations in a car with your kids, its your responsibility, not the nanny state to make up for your shitty parenting and knob control skills.
Yes, I would if she objected to the content.
I'd rather the kids know then (especially since most parents are ignorant and live in denial time and time again that their kids will grow up and learn about sex, especially those who preach from tomes) then have them fail at it later and have a bunch of ill-raised kids when they couldn't figure out birth control. If the parents object that much to info being displayed, they can homeschool them.
We have laws for when it effects others. Drinking is fine, drinking while in a car and hitting other cars is a crime. I fail to see why this cant be applied to the other things you take issue with (drugs, sex, etc). You are right though about the laws enacted to counter immigrants, pot was a-ok in the states with white folk till they learned black men and mexican men also smoked it. Then they passed the reefer laws to stick it too them back when men judged by skin tone.
I know that, that is why I left, I disagreed with their ideals and didn't attempt to push them against their will thru legal strongarming.
Lets just say I've come under a spell of extreme apathy and cynicism, I've seen my past efforts goto naught in many cases with scouting and with other efforts, my internship in environmental consulting has been similar. Maybe I'll try later, but right now I need to set some things straigh closer at hand. In the meantime, I'll vote for things and people that sate my inner mind and peace
Luckily, the old men die in their beds not too long after, their supressive efforts in vain and man can chase that which has been held back as it always has been. |
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