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Bush: Ports Deal Collapse May Hurt U.S.
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| March, 10 2006
| JENNIFER LOVEN
Posted on 03/10/2006 8:16:05 PM PST by crushelits
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To: hedgetrimmer
but that doesn't mean the Feds have any right to grant sweetheart deals The feds aren't proposing to grant any sort of sweetheart deal. What they are doing is maliciously interfering in the sale of a British company (P&O) to a Dubai company (DPW). Once again your socialist mindset lies exposed to see.
To: arasina
Thank you kindly, arasina.
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:06:56 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
(Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
To: John Valentine
Dwell on that for a while, my socialist friend.
Your claim was that our government was NOT created to protect individual rights and you are wrong. The socilists are the "free traders" btw. In fact a french socialist, Pascal Lamy, is head of the WTO. If socialism were so incompatible with "free trade" there would not be any socialists in the WTO, or communists for that matter.
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:18:53 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: John Valentine
If our government was set up with the purpose of protecting individual rights (or liberty as your references suggest), then why was it necessary to add provisions to protect these very rights from the government itself?
NO government, not our government, not ANY government, from the beginning of time, was ever established to protect individual liberty. --John Valentine
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:20:27 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: John Valentine
What they are doing is maliciously interfering in the sale of a British company (P&O) to a Dubai company (DPW). Once again your socialist mindset lies exposed to see.
"free trade" is anti socialist and anti communist? I see. Then the reason Hu Jintao and other totalitarians are getting wealthy is because?
And while you're answering that one, tell me again, why do "least developed countries" get trade advantages under the WTO's "multilateral trading system"?
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:25:36 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: hedgetrimmer
Where on earth did you get the weird idea that the WTO, GATT and so on is "Free Trade".
I know that the term is loosly tossed around, but trade under these agreements is completely managed. You don't need multi-thousand page treaties to establish "Free Trade".
Welcome to the new world of alice-in-wonderland.
To: hedgetrimmer
If our government was set up with the purpose of protecting individual rights (or liberty as your references suggest), then why was it necessary to add provisions to protect these very rights from the government itself?NO government, not our government, not ANY government, from the beginning of time, was ever established to protect individual liberty. --John Valentine
Apparently you think there is some inconsistency between these two statements.
There is not.
In fact I have spent some number of words explaining the difference between the purpose of extablishing governance in the first instance, and secondary limitations that may be placed on governance (enumerated powers, for example) in the interest of individual liberty (or rights, if you wish).
The two are not the same thing except in your mind.
To: hedgetrimmer
Then the reason Hu Jintao and other totalitarians are getting wealthy is because? Maybe they're smarter than you.
To: John Valentine
but trade under these agreements is completely managed.
EVERY "free trade" agreement is brokered through the WTO because our Congress has abdicated our authority to do so then the signed the GAT. So "free traders" are cohorts in the establishment of a centrally controlled global trading system. In other words they are enabling a communist/soclists global system.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:40:27 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: John Valentine
Maybe they're smarter than you.
Maybe more dishonest and less honorable. Smarter? That says a lot about you.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:42:01 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: John Valentine
"governance" is a global socialist word.
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posted on
03/12/2006 8:43:00 PM PST
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hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: hedgetrimmer
"governance" is a global socialist word. Really.
To: John Valentine
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posted on
03/12/2006 10:57:31 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: John Valentine
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posted on
03/12/2006 11:03:56 PM PST
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hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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