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  • 12 Western Carolinian February 22,1996 Editorials eroton inch pity Tightening the Screws of the New World Order by James Gray & Tony Taylor Gray: What do you think about all the talk Buchanan is making over labor, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement— a treaty among North American Nations that abolished tariffs and other trade restrictions) and related issues. I can't really believe it— GOP blasphemy— and he's got high ratings in the polls! Taylor: He's obviously trying to appeal to the blue collar voters, because he realizes that he's not the party's real choice. All of the old-money-Ronald Reagan Republicans are going to support Bob Dole. Therefore, Buchanan needs to find another group of supporters to go along with the religious conservatives. Gray: Exactly, there are a lot of people disenfranchised from both parties. What was it called? Taylor: The Bretton Woods system was dismantled in 1972. It was originally set up so that United States currency would be backed by gold. People felt comfortable with it, but when Germany and Japan began to catch up with the United States in Gross National Product and world trade, Nixon panicked and did away with the system. Nixon believed that everything had to go to the rich—even the crumbs. This enabled investors to pull capital out of America and invest it other places, such as the aforementioned shoe factory in Singapore. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the damaging effects this had on the economy: it's cost Americans thousands of jobs, and made it possible for the wealthiest Americans to avoid paying taxes. If your money is hid in a meat-packing company in Haiti, then you're not going to be paying taxes on it, are you? Most countries will not places around Fort Bragg and show you literal mountains of uneaten, unopened military rations. Through the past couple of decades the pentagon has paid 50, 75, 100, even in excess of 1000 times more for hardware than you or I do when we buy it. And we buy one screwdriver at a time, but they buy them by the tens of thousands— that reverses one of the most basic principles of economics, buy in quantity and pay less per unit. Taylor: Historically, Washington has pumped money into the Pentagon, to encourage economic growth. I realize this sounds stupid, but it has been a common practice for politicians since the 1950s. The National Security Act was passed in 1947, and since then the National Security Agency has actually governed America. In fact, Former Secretary of State George Kennan, wrote in the first NSC memorandum, in 1950: "We [the United Buchanan aims not with a conservative message and definitely not a liberal message, but a populist one. The outlook of the American worker is grim— of course that will be a big issue in the elections this year, but who's going to tackle the real problem? We make it advantageous for our companies to screw us over— our nation gives corporations no incentive to protect internal economic interests. At one time US currency was backed by gold and the Federal Reserve could keep track of where it was and who had control of it, since they held the vouchers for it. But Richard "Macadamia Nut" Nixon broke that down in the early '70s. So then people could hide money all over the world in, say, a shoe factory sweatshop in Singapore or a Swiss bank account. You were telling me about that system and why he wanted to stop it. allow their businesses to move large . amounts of capital across their borders. It's punishable by death in North Korea, for example. Gray: Yeah, the only significant interest in manufacturing within the United States is geared toward war. Those in control of Congress want to increase the 1996 defense budget when they have been whining about wastes and scaling back the federal government since they took control. Why? Because it benefits a handful of very rich individuals who get these beefy defense contracts. Sure, it creates high-paying skilled labor jobs, but there could be enough of those kinds of jobs geared toward peaceful progress to go around. The Department of Defense is, by far, the most wasteful arm of our federal government. I can take you to a couple of States] are in an enviable position. We have over half of the world's wealth, and only six percent of the population." Therefore, our task should be to make sure that we maintain our position as world superpower. That's why we haven't been able to sustain a peacetime economy since 1941. Our congressional leaders created the "Red Menace" to scare us into accepting higher taxes for weapons that we didn't need— which helped to create our soaring national deficit that we are currently straddled with. Washington still employs the "Pentagon Primer System" on occasion. For example, Somalia, Iraq and Bosnia. If we have the opportunity to make money, then human life is irrelevant. Gray: Everyone who is so eager to defend the Constitution and American way Continued on Page 13 The Western Carolinian Lynn Jones Editor in Chief Colin Gooder Assistant Editor Associate Editors Tony Taylor News Scott Francis Features Terry Roberts Sports Katherine Torrence Jill of All Trades Sean Corcoran Photography Tracy Hart Copy Editor Earle Wheeler Invisible Academy Lee Ann Gibson Advertising Director Paste-up Staff Cliff Meeks Office Director Christine Wilcox Layout Design Jennifer Jackson & Kim Harrell Carolinian Advisor John Moore The Carolinian is WCU's student newpaper. It is produced entirely by students. Deadline for submissions is the Thursday before each publication. The opinions expressed in the editorial section of the Carolinian in no way represent those of the Carolinian or the WCU campus. Editorials are written to inspire thought, not to offend or be taken personally.
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