This time around, Buchanan is getting less traction. Hobbled by internal strife in the Reform Party and two gall-bladder surgeries, the pugnacious pundit has languished in the polls. Business Week correspondents Richard B. Dunham and Amy Borrus spoke with him in his colonial-style home in McLean, Va., on Sept. 11. There's a feeling that giant corporations no longer give a hoot about Americans or the country. They'll shut down a factory here and open it up in Malaysia or China.
Corporations are less and less rooted in the community and in the country.
And clearly, Mr. Gore recognizes his own party's estrangement from working men and women. The first purpose of an economy is to prosper the country and its people. You measure success of an economy not by how well its wealthier people are doing but by how well the working and middle class are doing. U.S. trade and tax policy should be designed to give working men and women the highest standard of living on this earth. We see now with the OPEC cartel that that comes with a price.