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Posted on 06/13/2005 6:45:01 PM PDT by B4Ranch
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posted on
06/13/2005 6:45:02 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: B4Ranch
We must not endorse CAFTA.
We must secure our borders.
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Says it all.
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posted on
06/13/2005 6:51:15 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: B4Ranch
"This is a 765 page document."
And I thought the European Union constitution was bad.
To: B4Ranch
I think the link is
here.
To: EagleUSA
You don't need a hundred pages of legal mumbojumbo for free trade. A very few lines that forbid certain mercantile trade laws is plenty.
How many pages is the CAFTA treaty? That gives you your answer.
To: B4Ranch
Free trade is a good thing. Agreements are necessarily long. Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyone.
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posted on
06/13/2005 6:56:36 PM PDT
by
DuckFan4ever
(Liberals lie)
To: EagleUSA
NAFTA was sold as the soltion to poverty in and illegal immigration from Messico.......CAFTA will be even more horrific to America than NAFTA.
To: B4Ranch
I'm behind CAFTA. I just wish they hadn't felt it necessary to make special protections for American sugar because the trade off wasn't worth it.
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posted on
06/13/2005 7:03:25 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
NAFTA was sold as the soltion to poverty in and illegal immigration from Messico . . . . [sic]
Is that why the text of NAFTA mentions neither? /sarc
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posted on
06/13/2005 7:04:54 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: hedgetrimmer
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posted on
06/13/2005 7:10:05 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
To: DuckFan4ever
"Free trade is a good thing. Agreements are necessarily long. Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyone."
Yeah, kind of like the "worker rights enforcement" that NAFTA provided for, say, Mexico, or what free trade provides for sweatshops in Asia. Workers rights, indeed!
To: JesseJane; AZ_Cowboy
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posted on
06/13/2005 7:21:11 PM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
To: B4Ranch
Everyone that supports human rights and sustainability over profits, please raise your right hand so that the representatives from Earth Justice and Public Citizen will be able to identify you.
To: Donald Meaker
How many pages is the CAFTA treaty? That gives you your answer.
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I am afraid the trusting American people are being had, big time -- with these so-called treaties, that are just coverups for massive, ego-centric, political agendas to unite the Americas....I will put cash on this one!
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posted on
06/13/2005 7:50:03 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: DuckFan4ever
Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyoneM
CAFTA establishes the United Nations ILO to be the arbiter of all labor issues in CAFTA countries. Since the US will be a CAFTA country if this treaty is approved, then the ILO becomes the source of labor law in this country. If you are a patriotic American and believe that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, then you cannot accept this treaty as law, and it must not be passed.
Even if you aren't a patriotic American, but a person of high ethical standards, you cannot allow the United Nations any more power, especially in our hemisphere. The United Nations is an incredibly corrupt organization, whose ministers come from socialist, communist and totalitarian dicatorship countries. If America is to remain a free country, our leadership cannot sell us out wholesale to the United Nations as it will do in this treaty and as it has done in past treaties.
CAFTA must be stopped.
To: Jaysun
CAFTA has nothing really to do with sugar. Sugar is just a convenient boogeyman for the mainstream media to use to make the people angry and support CAFTA out of anger. If you read form USTR Robert Zoellicks speech of May 16 you will see that the purpose of CAFTA is to merge the the Central American countries with the North American Community, and ultimately the whole hemisphere. If our sellout leaders accomplish this, what form of government do you think the US will take? Certainly the Constitution will no longer apply because the "traders" are implenting through treaty and foreign aid a type of "civil society" where a corporatist fascism reigns and the voice of the people becomes the voice of the NGO.
This corporatist fascism is apparent in the lack of enforcement of US borders, the governmental elites( and it galls me that in America we have come to have an elite "class" in our government contrary to the purposes of our founders)find it convenient to ignore their duty to protect the country from invasion, and to uphold laws that they passed that deal with immigration and the permission to work in this country.
To: Ben Ficklin
sustainability over profits
I guess you'd better shut down the federal government then. It has been on track for sustainable development since Clinton signed the EO that created the Presidents council on sustainable development. The EPA, the USDA, the US treasury department, the US state department and the department of transportation are all on the "sustainable" bandwagon. In fact, sustainability is a criteria that the "working groups" created to implement the CAFTA agreements in Central America. You'll find "sustainability" endemic in the language of the "trade and aid" agreements our out of control government elites are pushing.
To: EagleUSA
We must not endorse CAFTA.We must secure our borders.
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Says it all.
Says it all.
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posted on
06/13/2005 8:22:29 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: B4Ranch
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posted on
06/13/2005 8:23:09 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
To: Coleus; JesseJane
How to sell a "trade agreement" that the American people don't want.
``The name of the agreement is perhaps misleading because it's not at all like Nafta,'' Portman said. ``I try to call it Cafta-DR or DR-Cafta so that they don't rhyme.''
--U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman
Mr. Portman was unanimously approved by Congress when nominated for this position.
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