Bachmann: ‘I Don’t Want The United States To Be In A Global Economy’

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/29/bachmann-global-economy/?utm_source=web&utm_medium=twitter

This past weekend, President Obama attended the G-20 Summit on international economic cooperation in Toronto, which ended with a declaration calling for member countries to work “to ensure a full return to growth with quality jobs, to reform and strengthen financial systems, and to create strong, sustainable and balanced global growth.” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), however, fears that the 20 countries were really working to set up “a one world government.”

In an interview on Scott Hennen’s radio show today, Bachmann claimed that the purpose of the G-20 was to “bind together the world’s economies.” Neglecting the already interconnected nature of the global economy, Bachman declared that “President Obama is trying to bind the United States into a global economy”:

BACHMANN: What really concerned me was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that we don’t want to see one country’s economy doing better than another. What? This is the U.S. Treasury Secretary? We don’t want to see Zimbabwe’s economy do better than the United States? Aren’t we supposed to be about the United States and making sure that our economy can be the greatest in the world. If you look at the G20, what they’re trying to do is bind together the world’s economies. Look how that played out in the European Union when they bound all of those nations economies together and one of the smallest economies, Greece, when they got into trouble, that one little nation is bringing down the entire EU. Well, President Obama is trying to bind the United States into a global economy where all of our nations come together in a global economy. I don’t want the United States to be in a global economy where, where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. I can’t, we can’t necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

“So I think clearly this is a very bad direction because when you join the economic policy of different nations, it is one short step to joining political unity and then you would have literally, a one world government,” said Bachmann. “I don’t want to cede United States authority to a transnational organization.” Listen here:

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She's blazingly, incredibly, awesomely, hugely, unbelievably, gigantically stupid.

WOW!

"You just can't possibly imagine what kind of stoopid, hateful, or perverse kind of thing they will do or say next."

- Forrest Gump

Our women are smart, talented, educated, productive, and beautiful.

The GOP has Ann Coulter, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Sharron Angle. Enough said.

:silly:

to think there is something racist about her focus on Zimbabwe?

We have a global economy, and regional governments. Even a smaller picture like that of the US is an example of the same thing. We have a national economy, but we still have 50 states. It's a pretty inefficient way of doing things. We're either all in this together, or we're on our own. We really have to pick one or the other.

However, we end up trying to mix the two, because we think we can have the best of both worlds. We think we can have some grand collective goal for humanity, while at the same time everyone shouldn't be dependent on anyone else for anything and should be allowed to follow their own dreams to whatever goal they wish to find.

I'm also sick and tired of gravity.

are vehemently opposed to Trade Policies and believe
this is at the root of our current economical problem.
( A lot of Teabaggers are former Perot voters and their
party platform was Anti-Nafta. Ross Perot fought
Nafta tooth and nail. "That giant sucking sound" sucking
our factories to Mexico, etc.

It will interesting to watch--REAL Conservatives on this
issue.

you'll fall. Is that what she wants.

She is a clueless as used chewing gum.

Why can't the economy be heaven-based -- where only the good Christian people like her get to drive fancy gold cars, and the bad people don't exist?

You can almost see how it makes perfect sense in her limited, fear-addled mind.

Normally I'd pity a fool like Michelle Bachmann, but she can go to hell if she thinks she's gonna let her insane madness infuse our government policies.

And her beloved GOP outsourced all the "Made in the USA" manufacturing jobs and outsourced it to the cheapest laborers around the world.

So Michelle -- SHUT THE FUCK UP.

She was able to get a BA without reading (or at least taking a course that used) Krugman's International Economics: Theory and Policy? Unf@#$ing Believable.