[hedgetrimmer]

Several recent setbacks have highlighted the precariousness of Bush's FTAA negotiating strategy, the most important of which comes at the summit of G8 industrial nations in Evián, France that began on Sunday. There, President Luís Ignacio "Lula" da Silva of Brazil is proposing the creation of two new multilateral funds, one to support programs to eliminate world hunger and the other for needed infrastructure investment in Latin America specifically; Lula has hinted that American support for the latter fund will be a necessary quid pro quo for Brazil's willingness to move forward in FTAA negotiations, which Brasilia and Washington now co-chair.
http://adam.antville.org/stories/410153
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Sheesh! Talk about global welfare,hemispheric welfare, and corporate welfare because the taxpayers will be forced to pay this not the corporations who want to do business with these countries.

[Don Joe]

Several recent setbacks have highlighted the precariousness of Bush's FTAA negotiating strategy, the most important of which comes at the summit of G8 industrial nations in Evián, France that began on Sunday. There, President Luís Ignacio "Lula" da Silva of Brazil is proposing the creation of two new multilateral funds, one to support programs to eliminate world hunger and the other for needed infrastructure investment in Latin America specifically; Lula has hinted that American support for the latter fund will be a necessary quid pro quo for Brazil's willingness to move forward in FTAA negotiations, which Brasilia and Washington now co-chair.
http://adam.antville.org/stories/410153
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Sheesh! Talk about global welfare,hemispheric welfare, and corporate welfare because the taxpayers will be forced to pay this not the corporations who want to do business with these countries.

So, in essence, a tariff (or rather a pair of tariffs) -- except we can't use that word, because we're having "free trade".

Very droll.

What a CoS.