CAFTA is the answer to China's growing power

The Seattle Times ^ | May 24, 2005 | Froma Harrop

[gopwinsin04]

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[Toddsterpatriot]

Chuck Harder's "For The People," he said "once your dollar leaves the country, it is gone for good."

You know how silly this sounds? A dollar is a piece of paper. If we buy something with it and that darn foreigner keeps it (it is gone for good), we just bought something with a check that will never be cashed. That's a bad thing?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Sounds to me like the only reason China has "influence" is because of the hugh amount of US Dollars they have.

You're right. They had no influence when they were only the most populous country or when they joined the nuclear club. Nope, no influence then.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I prefer we give away the store to none of our enemies.

The only free part to any of this is the taxpayer money our government wants to dump on these third world cesspools.

Free for them at least.

[1rudeboy]

Wal-Mart. [chuckle]

[hedgetrimmer]

No the GOVERNMENT should butt out and stop paying companies to leave the US and stop paying foreign governments so their countries can "trade". If they have goods worth trading, the US corporations shouldn't take subsidies to trade with them and US taxpayers shouldn't have to give their money to them so that the are enable for "trading".

The GOVERNMENT should't be erasing borders, destroying our sovereignty and trying to set up "commonwealths" or promote "hemispheric integration" to create a trade bloc to compete with the Chinese who are using American money they got through the policies of the federal government in the first place.

"Free Trade" is all about government interference, and putting people on the dole, as illustrated in this article.

[ex-snook]

BOHICA

[1rudeboy]

[1rudeboy]

I saw that too, but figured it was hyperbole. However, sometimes you cannot tell with these people.

[hedgetrimmer]

The department of labor updates their chart every time the congress raises minimum wage. The fact that congress controls minimum wage really invalidates those "statistics" because the government is interfering, not because we have a healthy economy.

[Toddsterpatriot]

OK Mr. Sugar Farmer, we "free traders" have decided that your job should go to the struggling peasants in central america to alleviate their poverty.

You prefer that the government triple the price Americans pay for sugar? Contributing to American poverty. Maybe you'd like to triple the price we pay for gas? Wouldn't want to send money to foreigners, right? Make all our gas and oil American gas and oil, right? No matter what the cost?

Is your job one of the low skill jobs threatened by foreign competition? We're just curious.

[1rudeboy]

Prove it.

[1rudeboy]

Is your job one of the low skill jobs threatened by foreign competition? We're just curious.

Don't forget to keep asking until you get a reply. Then, when you get a reply that disappoints you, forget that you asked. LOL

[hedgetrimmer]

Prove that Congress mandates the minimum wage?

Calendar No. 109

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1062
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage .


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled

[1rudeboy]

Which Congress is that. Ours, or the OAS'? [hoot]
Cut the BS, I'm asking you to prove one of your contentions for a change, instead of chirping that "our economy is worse-off than you think."

[wayoverontheright]

No the GOVERNMENT should butt out.....

That's precisely what free trade accomplishes.

The OFFICE OF THE US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE (ustr.gov), estimates that the effect of CAFTA would be to REDUCE the overall US trade deficit by $756 million. It would PRESERVE $4 billion in exports which would otherwise be lost to competition from Asia. In addition, 80% of everthing the five Central American countries send to us today is duty free, CAFTA would open THEIR MARKETS TO US, much more than ours to them. What about those jobs?

[music is math]

After 10 Years, NAFTA Continues to Pay Dividends

Nevertheless, ill-informed domestic critics continue to assert that NAFTA has cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs and, further, is somehow responsible for the lingering recession in U.S. manufacturing. They use NAFTA as an argument against proposed trade agreements with Central American and other Latin American countries. But an objective look at the record shows that none of the dire warnings about the agreement have come true.

[1rudeboy]

What about those jobs?

They don't give a darn about those jobs. It's a zero-sum game, remember? Costa Rica's gain is our loss.

[investigateworld]

China has been a member of the nuke club for over 40 years.
And her population has always been the largest. Why now is she rumbling about the world?
Just wondering?

[1rudeboy]

Here's a thread you may find interesting. Some of the responses are a hoot.

Myth: NAFTA was a failure for the U.S.