Economic Nationalism

[John Gelles <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

                 PAT BUCHANAN'S  ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
              OUGHT TO BE RECAST BY A DEMOCRATIC PATRIOT

             The middle class needs a plenitude of high wage
        jobs to ensure its economic security as this nation
        faces the post-cold war challenges to world peace and
        prosperity.  The poor need the same to reach middle
        class status.  And the nation needs to hold on to
        manufacturing skills and habits that alone can spell
        national security in the future.

             These needs were addressed by Buchanan's economic
        nationalism along with reduced immigration, if not
        reduced population growth.

             Other politicians in the '96 race were not focused
        on these needs -- they wanted smaller government and
        lower taxes, balanced budgets and general growth whose
        beneficiary may be solely the more affluent who finance
        their campaigns.

             With any luck at all, the road to facism that Pat
        Buchanan travels, will be rejected by those same voters
        whose needs are not being addressed by others.  Is it
        asking for too much luck to hope a democrat in either
        party will cleanse economic nationalism of its hates
        and divisive content, leaving only Keynesian doctrine
        and human rights at its core?

             If we go by the record of this century it is
        asking too much.  No nation has been able to strip its
        ordinary people of visions of enemies on whom to blame
        the pain of being poor.  Yet if Buchanan goes down in
        a rain of counter-facist votes innocently cast by a
        diverse majority, perhaps a patriot will come forth
        to address our rational national needs in Lincoln's
        language.  Then will manufacturing return, individual
        economic security be prized, the environment find its
        protector, and concern for population limits be fairly
        addressed.

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        John Gelles              voice: (805) 642-6675
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        Let us finance national & jobs priorities as we do weapons
        in war: Create capacity with federal contracts, loans, and
        investments limited only by environmental and material con-
        straints and inflation that savings and supply can't halt.
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