Steve Forbes in Reuters


On Budget & Economy: Free markets, free elections, free trade, free people

[In a speech in London], Forbes made clear he considered the "Third Way" [the British term for mixing socialism & capitalism] a socialist approach. "Where some speak of a ‘Third Way,' let us pursue the right way - free markets, free elections, free trade - because these are the tools of a free people," he said. "It is time to show the world that the Reagan-Thatcher-Forbes model offers true economic liberation for those who languish in poverty and economic stagnation," he said.
Source: Reuters Oct 13, 1999

On Foreign Policy: Punish China for wounding US security

Regarding the Cox Report: The administration's "national security policy of hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil has deeply wounded" US security. Forbes said China should be punished. He called for an end to the licensing of military products to China, sanctions on People's Liberation Army companies doing business in the United States and a halt to efforts to give China special breaks on entry into the World Trade Organization."
Source: Reuters May 25, 1999

On Foreign Policy: European Union is a "misguided global institution."

Forbes warned that the European single currency and the "Third Way" policies [mixing capitalism & socialism] expounded by British Prime Minister Tony Blair could doom Britain's prosperity. In remarks at the British Library in London, Forbes asked why Britain would want to give up the pound, which he called one of history's "great and enduring currencies." He called the European Union a "misguided global institution."
Source: Reuters Oct 13, 1999

On Free Trade: Invite Britain & Ireland to join US free trade

Forbes announces at a speech in London, "I will invite the people of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland to join the United States in a North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement." Such a free trade union would mean lower taxes and higher wages, faster growth, more freedom for farmers, and less government, he said.
Source: Reuters Oct 13, 1999

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