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To: hedgetrimmer
So whether the president should not micromanage trade, he does in a big way.Congress gave him that authority.

They can take it away, as they reauthorize it often.(It was yearly, I do not know what the current law is on the time frame.)

Fastrack has not been abused by this president to my knowledge. If it has, then I have not seen much in that regard.

All of the complaints seem to be connected to the decisions of private companies and what they do to improve their bottom lines. (outsourcing, multinational offices, and moving plant floors to other countries)

These things are not connected directly to fast track or government negotiated trade agreements, but the agreements may make some of these things easier to do in the form of taxing rules and legalisms.

A better question to pose would be to ask if it is a good idea for government to stand in the way of what a private business would like to do, or to allow them the freedom to make those choices.

When posed that way, I fall on the side of little or no interference in business decisions of that nature.

It would be better to encourage and make possible a business climate that make decisions like these rare. Not to forbid or make illegal these types of actions.

Kerry wants to spend a great deal of taxpayer money to pay companies not to send work to foreign countries.

Talk about business perks! And from a EF'n democrat to boot.

Blatant election poop, if you ask me.

434 posted on 02/18/2004 1:07:48 PM PST by Cold Heat ("It is easier for an ass to succeed in that trade than any other." [Samuel Clemens, on lawyers])
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To: wirestripper
Fastrack is unConstitutional, whether you think it is abused or not. Clinton tried to get fast track but couldn't. Mr. Bush should know its unconstitutional, it clearly violates the separation of powers. Only Congress is delegated by the Constitution to regulate trade.

436 posted on 02/18/2004 1:11:02 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: wirestripper
We now pay a great deal of taxpayer money to pay companies to send work to foreign countries.

There are many, many threads that discuss the Export-Import bank, OPIC, the INF, the list goes on and on.
438 posted on 02/18/2004 1:29:16 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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