Buchanan calls for Bush to stand up to Europe on trade

[economic justice]

We received a copy of this in the mail today from the national office. It's very good and echoes my sentiments exactly. Per the DU rules, since it is from a traditionally conservative source, I have included my opinion....what do you think?

Is There Steel in Bush's Spine?
Patrick J. Buchanan

"With the World Trade Organization's backing, Europe just issued an ultimatum to the United States. Either President Bush repeals the tariffs he imposed to save the U.S. steel industry, or Europe will slam $2 billion in tariffs on U.S. exports. The European Union is threatening us with a trade war. Predictably, our globalists and Big Media are in a panic, imploring the president to surrender. What Bush decides will tell us what he is made of. Some of us still hope there is steel in his spine."

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"This confrontation had to come, and will come again, even if we back down now. A collision was preordained when Bill Clinton and Congress surrendered America's sovereign right to determine her own trade policy to a WTO where the United States is outvoted 15 to 1 by the European Union. Either President Bush confronts Europe now, or he buckles and accepts the slow death of U.S. manufacturing."

http://www.theamericancause.org/patbushsspineprint.htm

[Zeke]

1. Bush Won't Stand Up...

"...the slow death of US manufacturing..." is Bush Inc's goal, so Bush won't fight the EU on this.

The GOP is giddy about returning the US workforce back to the bad ol days of no benefits, low pay, no worker strikes allowed, etc.