Posted on 01/10/2005 4:29:24 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
That is the exact same thing any nation could do to us in the absence of WTO.
Sure, we could go back to the days of trade wars. We could go back to protectionism and all that got for us. Heck, we can do that under WTO. It's OUR decision.
How soon do you think it will be until we convert to the Euro?
bump
Ping!
I hate politics. I'll continue to play the game but I won't like it one little bit.
It does get annoying at times.
"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."
--Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.
"But why should America's economic fortunes be placed in the hands of any foreign body, headed by any foreign official of any ideological background?"
We shouldn't and in no way have to comply. American citizens paying taxes or punative awards in any way shape or form is a violation of our sovergnity. Also in no way can any official or representitive of the US government grant control of anything sovergn American to a foreign body or state. The fear of a trade war is not a reason to commit treason against the right of American workers, property owners, or business in violation of our Constitution.
I am asuming the consequences of the abovementioned treason has not been accurately explained to our President?
Or could it be he has been advised that the American people really do not care if a little bit of freedom is given up in exchange for a better price on French Whine or Sourkraut. Screw them cotton farmers you say? Screw the US steel producers you say? Screw US companies totally YOU SAY??
This is all about money. Those who have it get to keep it and make a lot more, those who don't have money get the shaft. I see how it works. Anyone ever heard of the word Rev O Lou Shun??
This is one of the things about some of the people in our government that REALLY IRKS ME! They act like they are above the rest of us and know what is best for us. Bush is another mouthpiece of incremental world government, and in this case is no better than Kerry or Nader or whoever because he is backing down from the socialists in the EU.
Since when should we ever take a threat from the French seriously???????
I guess you are not expecting to get many allies....
Amen, They may be our representatives to congress for the making of laws, they were never in no way shape or form authorized by anyone or the any law and not by the Constitution to sign away our rights as citizens of this country or were they ever authorized to give up any soverignty of the US.
These4 are Treasonable Acts against the People OF the United States of America and should be made Null and Void IMMEDIATELY!!
I tend to agree that the WTO is biased, but international trade negotiations are difficult anyway, and they are not subject to our courts because nobody is obliged to accept our terms or trade with us.
Also, the anti-Bush bias in this article is palpable. Bush didn't sign us onto Free Trade--that's been an ongoing process for the past 50 or 60 year, mostly in reaction to the devastating trade barriers that went up in the 1930s.
"President Bush's enthusiasm for WTO-supervised global "free trade" explains why "you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief" from foreign capitals over his re-election, stated the December 2 Christian Science Monitor."
Horse manure. Did any Freepers hear a collective sigh of relief when Bush won the election. Rather the contrary. All around the world the media and the opinion leaders were bitching and complaining. Chirac's nose is still out of joint.
I'm not scared. I'm blonde, with guns. LOL
You are exactly right! The problem is that we've let the traitors get away with it for so long they think they are untouchable. A little rope goes a long way. ;)
These4 are Treasonable Acts against the People OF the United States of America and should be made Null and Void IMMEDIATELY!!
I agree with you 100%. Those in power underestimate the will of the American people. I hope this election opened some eyes. We'll soon know.
A DLC New Democrat Third Way progressive, two conservative "free traders," and a Communist.
The WTO.
"The WTO represents the rules-based regime of the policy of economic globalization. The central operating principal of the WTO is that commercial interests should supersede all others. Any obstacles in the path of operations and expansion of global business enterprise must be subordinated. In practice these 'obstacles' are usually policies or democratic processes that act on behalf of working people, labor rights, environmental protection, human rights, consumer rights, social justice, local culture, and national sovereignty."
So who among the New Democrat Third Way progressives, conservative "free traders," and Communists will object if the WTO took on the additional tasks of enforcing social justice, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice?
That's the plan.
So, conservative "free traders." When the New Democrat Third Way progressives and Communists ask if you sell rope, RUN!
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