North America to announce special alliance ( FTAA , per Mexican official)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/21/05 | E. Eduardo Castillo - AP

[hedgetrimmer]

If you are asking what is the root cause of this wholesale giveaway of our country? I would have never said this a year ago, but the deeper you dig, the think tank, Council on Foreign Relations has a lot to do with it. Many many members of our executive and legislative branches are members, a lot of policy comes out of this organization and becomes law.

No tax exempt status should be given to any corporation like this, no corporation like this should have such a hold on our government and such an influence on its policy. Government is supposed to be "by the people" and the nonprofit corporations like CFR, Council of the Americas, CSIS, Rand corporation have waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much influence in our government and it isn't healthy for private citizens. (In fact the deparment of homeland security concept was developed by the CSIS and Rand corporation)

Believe it or not UN policies are at play here as well. Their collectivist ideology called sustainable development is one leg of this trade agreement and the US obligates itself to the UN when it ratifies treaties that require sustainable development policies be implemented as a condition of the trade agreement or treaty.

[DumpsterDiver]

If you are asking what is the root cause of this wholesale giveaway of our country?

No, I'm just looking for candidates who have necks in search of a noose.

Their collectivist ideology called sustainable development is one leg of this trade agreement and the US obligates itself to the UN when it ratifies treaties that require sustainable development policies be implemented as a condition of the trade agreement or treaty.

Two of those sustainable development groups in L.A. are Sustain L.A. and Mobility 21 - Smart Growth Partnership: Growing a Smarter Los Angeles

Speaking of growing a smarter Los Angeles, a few weeks ago the mayor announced that a little over 50% percent of the workers in L.A. over the age of sixteen are functional illiterates. We're screwed.

[LowCountryJoe]

You'll really have to explain to me how regional free trade agreements cede any of our sovereignty to outside governments. You could make that case with respect to the WTO, but we could withdrawal from that body without any legal consequences. Sorry, I'm not buying into the loss of sovereignty argument.

[hedgetrimmer]

Chapter 11 provisions of NAFTA ...grant foreign corporations and producers greater rights than U.S. citizens

Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade (CCFT) are using NAFTA’s Chapter 11 to try to place pressure on the United States’ independent judicial system


Why should foreign entities like CCFT be allowed to use an international tribunal of NAFTA to pressure our courts to undermine the health and safety standards of the U.S. consumers?

Foreign entities should not have the ability to attack U.S. standards.

Chapter 11 is one of the many reasons that NAFTA is a poor model for future trade agreements such as CAFTA

http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=4302

[NormsRevenge]

It's another step down the road.. deny it all ya want, but when it gets here, don't say ya didn't hear about it.

[NRA2BFree]

No they have just lost their sense of right and wrong.

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 democratically elected Western Hemisphere nations, is intended to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. It is an effort to unite the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade agreement comprising 800 million consumers with a combined gross domestic product of $14 trillion.

Florida FTAA, Inc. is the private-public entity led by Governor Jeb Bush, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and officials throughout the State of Florida with the mission that Miami, Florida become the site of the Permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Florida FTAA is chaired by Ambassador Charles E. Cobb, Jr. and managed by President Jorge L. Arrizurieta. The administrative offices are located at the Biltmore Hotel Conference Center of the Americas in Coral Gables, Florida.

Jeb is just like his daddy and Dubya. Lovers of the UN and globalizm. America is so DOOMED it's pitiful. By the time these idiots realize what they have done, it will be too late. We will NEVER recover from this.