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The evidence seems to be against you regarding the quality of jobs replacing the jobs that are going over seas.

Hardly. If there is indeed a "race to the bottom," as folks have been claiming for years if not decades, when does the race begin?

Trade is only one element in a much bigger picture of incessant turnover in the American labor market. Furthermore, the overall trend is toward more and better jobs for American workers. While job losses are real and sometimes very painful, it is important -- indeed, for the formulation of sound public policy, it is vital -- to distinguish between the painful aspects of progress and outright decline.
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The trade laws on the books states that a nation has the right to impose a temporary tariff in order to allow an industry to retool, regroup, and make itself more competitive in a world market.

I'm not claiming that Bush does not have the authority to impose a steel tariff. But a proper understanding of the issue requires that the costs of the tariff be taken into account. Most proponents of the steel tariff (not you, specifically) "blew that off far too easily."

I think you miss the point regarding the steel tariff. Bush tucked tail and removed the tariff because an outside entity that was in the wrong told him to. I didn't like the steel tariff, what I liked less was getting marching orders in regards sovereign matters from a board of appointed nerds. Who are they? Who picks them? And we are about to increase their power big time with the FTAA?

Not every American is college caliber, that's not a slam just a fact. The ones that are going to be, and are being hurt by Free Trade are the ones that can least afford it. High School drop outs and those who, for economic or personal reasons, cannot improve their economic status.

The idea put to us by our politicians was for us to lift the boats of the third world, they didn't mention that it meant sinking ours. When a politician tells you that America's future lies in "small business" and every idiot nods in agreement, knowing full well that 90% of small business's go belly up in under five years, we are in trouble.

If our future lies in small business we are sunk friend. The only available industry openings talked about by political talking heads is in the medical field as teckies. How long will it take before that market is flooded?

Aside from all of the above, what we are talking about here is another form of invasion. An invasion that leads to the loss of sovereignty and self determination that our Founding Father's warned us about. Men that were much smarter than you or I warned that we could lose our nation by becoming involved in entangling treaties. I'm here to tell you we are tangled already with NAFTA and GATT, the FTAA is the cherry on the nation killing sundae.