[hedgetrimmer]

Here YOUR representative speaking in Congress Why don't you sk her what she means by this? No wonder you don't want the truth posted here, you probably work for her.

This week something very important happened. In the city of Ottawa, Canada, the capital city of our sister state up north, a major meeting was held between parliamentarians of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to begin to push back a continental effort to reform NAFTA. Both legislators, like myself, and representatives of those two governments, along with civil society groups met in Ottawa to halt NAFTA-plus, the expansion of NAFTA, something being called the Security and Prosperity Partnership .

Instead, at a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, we announced that networks from across Canada, the United States, and Mexico are going to unveil a plan to bring an end to the kind of deep damage that NAFTA is causing in all three countries and replace it with a people-centered trade model. As I said in my remarks in Canada, trade agreements in North America must ensure rising standards of living and increase jobs in all of our countries.

We met this week in Ottawa, and that meeting followed one we held last year in this city of Washington, D.C. This was our second forum. We will have a third in Ottawa a year from now, and likely a meeting in Mexico City in August.

As one of our parliamentarians said, NAFTA has aggravated poverty across our continent. And the new Democratic Party Parliamentarian, Peter Julian of Canada said, ``There is no doubt that under NAFTA, most Canadians are poorer. We have been fighting to make adjustments,'' he said, ``and now it is clear that NAFTA has to be replaced.'' It is not working for the vast majority of the inhabitants of North America. It has failed on the bottom line.

In anticipation of a summit that will be held in Ottawa in March 2007, called the ``Three Amigos Summit,'' our group will create a North American secretariat to prepare for counter information and counterproposals and introduce simultaneous legislation in this chamber in Ottawa and in Mexico City to replace NAFTA. We will build opportunities for public engagement in civil society across this continent on the issue of proper continental integration.

Mr. Speaker, a new charter for the people of the Americas is being drafted, one that will result in more democracy, more cooperation, more development for rising standards of living, not more loss of jobs and greater trade deficits.

[MikefromOhio]

It isn't going to happen for a couple of reasons, chief among them as there ISN'T anything there, except in your head.

Just repeat that:

It's all in my head. It's all in my head.

[MikefromOhio]

BTW, that isn't my representative, so again, you are misleading and absolutely INCORRECT.

HAHA.

[MikefromOhio]

Any reason why you would think that Marcy Kaptur of ALL people is my representative?

You probably don't even know where she is a representative of, except that it's "ohio"...

LOL

YDR check this schiza out.....

[MikefromOhio]

Now hedge here has gone from being a bit out there to being an outright liar.

First he says Marcy Kaptur is my rep, she isn't, it's David Hobson.

Secondly, he says I don't want "the truth posted here, you probably work for her."

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but he's doing the very thing he was accusing me of yesterday. That is, making a personal attack that is simply not TRUE.

[Smartass]

If the Social Security part S-2611, for payment fo include illegal aliens in the joint congressional reconciliation conference, you can bet it will accelerate the demise of SS, and deal a death blow to many elderly.

[texastoo]

Hopefully, this is what will happen. Nobody can agree on anything and everyone is the "person in charge".

[You Dirty Rats]

Mike from Ohio is in the DAYTOM area; Marcy Kaptur is a moonbat Democrat from TOLEDO. That's about 150 miles apart on I-75.

However, Toledo IS on US 24, which connects to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fort Wayne has guess which road running through it -- YES!!! I-69!!!

[You Dirty Rats]

Oh BTW, Marcy Kaptur is and has always been a spokeswoman for organized labor. Her interest in adjusting NAFTA is to increase the power of the labor unions. Her district is in Toledo which has always been a city that makes its living supplying auto parts to Detroit and building jeeps.

I-69 however does detour west and north around Toledo and Detroit to end at Port Huron near the Canadian border. I'm sure you can prove something from that fact.