What is little know fact US/transnational companies are driving millions of Mexican farmers out of their villages. This displaced people flood Mexican/US cities and bring displacing pressure on millions of Mexican city workers.
Yeah Pat, by a company from whose car you used to drive, Mercedes-Benz.
Anyway, more sky is fallling rhetoric from the liberals favorite conservative, pat buchanan.
FYI, the author drives a mercedes and GM's new cars are a joke.
GM always had crappy minivans with the Honda Odessey and Chryslers being the best. Their new minivan is a new design that still does not measure up to the old honda's and chryslers.
The Aveo is a tin can better to be exported to somewhere else or to sell to car rental companies offering 19.95 per day. The cobalt is a good car at a good price buy why put a rear spoiler on an inexpensive reliable car that you would rather have other people NOT notice you are driving.
Only the old pontiac vibe (toyota matrix in disguise) and the buick rendezvous (not state of the art but made in mexico and a good value for what you get) are priced appropriately.
The main feature of CAFTA is the elimination of tariffs on US exports, something which is clearly in our interest. But there's not much point in using logic or facts with protectionists.
The "Free Traders" are down to dogma and charges of heresy, they are the Jesse Jackson's of the economic sphere. The driver of our new paradigm economy is vendor financing of our purchases, think Lucent and the dot-coms. For the most part this dogmatic adherence to free trade is promulgated by think tank whores and the salesmen for multi-nationals and to each their day is coming. By their logic I could H1-B them out of a job, if they can outsource the tech industry they can outsource the fools who brought this about.
Pat's calling the President a fanatic? That's pretty funny.
Pat should run for President again. Maybe in 2008 he can get 0.45% instead of the 0.42% that he got in 2000.
Anyway, CAFTA will happen for the following reasons:
The second richest zipcode in the entire country for the GWB Campaign was 45243, which includes Indian Hill just outside Cincinnati.
The Congressman who represents this district is Rob Portman, who has been nominated as US Trade Rep.
The host of the fund raisers in 45243 is Carl Lindner, owner of the Cincinnati Reds and Chiquita Banana.
Chiquita gets its bananas from Central America.
Uncle Carl's money speaks louder than Pat and his brigades.
Too bad Pat, but your brigades are no match for billions of bananas. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Go Pat Go!
And of course, it will be a crisis, so the Consitution will be suspended as well.
Hopefully, just a bad dream, but I'm not so sure.
Mark
This is dire. Is it too late to take any corrective action?
That trade deal would abolish all individual taxes in the United States.
Of course, that will never happen. It doesn't advance the goal of a New World Order like CAFTA does.
I read the first sentence and thought, Hmmm, could this be Pat? Well, of course! The White House thinks they can 'integrate' with Mexico, since it's practically a done deal , with most of the peasants not here already, heading north as fast as possible. GW will say, well, we just have to make the best of things. Thirteen or twenty million here...we can't send them all home, blah, blah, blah. Just wait until terrorists sneak over that leaky border and blow up L.A.. At that point it will become obvious to the most fanatical free trader that sovereignty and borders mean something and that the US should not be the world's biggest patsy.
"With Chrysler now a German company, GM and Ford down to less than half the U.S. auto market, and GM paper looking like Argentine bonds, Americans now import $188 billion worth of autos, trucks, and parts, three times what we export. Motown is no more king of the road."
This has nothing to do with free trade--except for Detroit being unwilling to deliver a reliable car at a reasonable price.