George Bush, protectionist
Human Events
by Pat Buchanan
12/26/08
‘I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,’ President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three ‘to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.’ Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout to GM, Ford and Chrysler, Bush, by omission, excluded BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai — though all operate auto plants here in the United States and all are feeling the same sales slump...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30077
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=automaker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=protectionism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
by Pat Buchanan
12/26/08
‘I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,’ President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three ‘to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.’ Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout to GM, Ford and Chrysler, Bush, by omission, excluded BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai — though all operate auto plants here in the United States and all are feeling the same sales slump...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30077
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=automaker
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=protectionism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
rudkla - 2. Jan, 08:54
