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A big fat NEGATIVE to CAFTA or any more free trade agreements from me. Not until we clean up the existing ones we have, most of which are absolutely not "free" at all, giving America the shaft in favor of greedy corporations that just want to increase their bottom line. Free trade agreements- even ones that are slanted against America- are great for greedy corporations, but not everyone else.

CAFTA doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as the other free trade agreements we've signed in the past (NAFTA, etc), but I'm flat out against it just so we don't continue the free trade spiral of suicide that we're going on. Good post, and I assume the free traders will come out anytime now with their Cato Institute/Heritage Foundation talking points of economic theory- theory which clearly has not worked in the real world.

>> giving America the shaft in favor of greedy corporations that just want to increase their bottom line.

Most Americans who work for "greedy" corporations may have a different opine.

We have "corporations" today because people like Rockefeller, Carnage and myriad others got the message, and became anonymous via necessity.

Corporation: A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

Now everyone can bi*ch about "corporations", but in fact they are us. If it were not for the most evil of corporations (Microsoft) we would be deprived of this communication, and about a million corporate slaves would not have jobs.

Most Americans work for small businesses with less than 50 employees; every single small business owner dreams of the day they incorporate. Every single one of them.

It is about competition and the rewards, or failures that come from competition. Competition guarantees efficiency, and is only feared by the inefficient.

Are you scared to have your company go head to head with Guatemala...? Even if the company looses, they win in the sense that they were bested, and can therefrom adapt.