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Does it? Here are some quotes. Vicente Fox: "Mexico, the Untied States, and Canada will unite under one "Trade Umbrella", with U.S. wages falling to meet Mexico's rising wages. The rest of the Western Hemisphere will join later".

George Bush: "I would like to see a Free Trade Zone from the North of Canada to the tip of Cape Horn".

BTW, Bush does have the Fast Track ability now. Now why don't you go to the FTAA site and really read it. Read the side issues like the discussion of how to allow judges to have greater power from the bench to hand down harsher sentences for "hate speech". The E.U. also has laws dealing with jail sentences for anyone who diss'es the E.U.
They don't really enforce them much, yet. But the law is on the books.

Free movement across borders is also discussed. The ability of a lady from Chili being able to come to the USofA to sell her tribal rugs with no border hassles.

The FTAA is a nation killer that dissolves borders, cultures, and patriotism, yet leaves government in place. A real oddity. Corporations love it of course, the drone market being so cheap and all.

You cannot really debate it until you have read it, and connected the dots with the Supremes Court's recent statements about their study and planned use of Euro law. I believe it was Euro Law used to set aside the Texas Sodomy Laws.

Already the talk is about how the new jobs created doesn't pay squat. So the decline in US wages seems to be in play right now. And what happens to a widget maker and his employees in the USofA when he comes up against unfair competition with a favored widget maker whose cousin is the President of Brazil?

Who settles this dispute? An appointed, not elected board, with a whole lot of power. It's like adding an extra layer of government over the entire western hemisphere, more powerful than any national Constitution.

This recovery has been called a jobless recovery. The corporations are making money, the stock market is okay, but the wealth that ordinary American's would make from a living wage job has and is going over seas at a greater clip.

Bush has made the comment that he has faith that no one can compete with the American worker if he is given a level playing field. Just what does he really mean by that?

Free Trade is not Fair Trade and the US worker gets the dirty end of the stick already. For the US worker to compete in today's market his wages and standard of living must go into the toilette. But of course this is covered under our "duty" to raise the boats of the rest of the world, by giving it all away.

No one wants to see Kerry elected, the truth is it makes no difference regarding the FTAA who is in office, Bush will ram it through congress also. My best advise is to hit the ground running after the election to defeat the FTAA. Things will be happening fast, as it did with the 245i amnesty. November will be the election, January the attempt will be made to pass the FTAA. I hope people are as prepared to call their congressmen and senators to defeat it, as they did over the 245i amnesty in the two times the attempt was made to sneak it past voters.