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CAFTA: Good for state, nation, Central America
Tacoma News-Tribune ^ | June 27th, 2005 | editorial staff

Posted on 06/27/2005 5:39:51 PM PDT by Dog Gone

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1 posted on 06/27/2005 5:39:52 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

I wonder where the Buchanan brigades are?


2 posted on 06/27/2005 5:44:21 PM PDT by Betaille ("Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Dog Gone

Wha? Yew baitin Willie Green with dis??? (grin)


3 posted on 06/27/2005 5:46:09 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Arnold Schwarzenrenegger is Cauleeforneeah's Greenievenator!!! He's infected with GANG-GREEN!!!)
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To: Betaille

They'll show up. It's probably commute time in Berkelely, CA, right now.


4 posted on 06/27/2005 5:47:23 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: SierraWasp

Sure, and now since he's moved to Texas, he's a lot easier to reel in.


5 posted on 06/27/2005 5:48:17 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

And you agree with this tripe?


6 posted on 06/27/2005 6:00:04 PM PDT by datura (Molon Labe)
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To: datura

No, I agree with this logical, well-written editorial.


7 posted on 06/27/2005 6:02:11 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

It is amazing that a bunch of leftwing journalism school graduates are experts on everything from nuclear power to foreign trade.

And I always thought they majored in journalism because they could not understand enough math to carry a real major.


8 posted on 06/27/2005 6:03:03 PM PDT by Blue Screen of Death (/i)
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To: Dog Gone
I wonder where the Buchanan brigades are?

If you post it they will come.

9 posted on 06/27/2005 6:04:17 PM PDT by Nateman
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To: Dog Gone

Congressman Ron Paul says the CAFTA treaty has 2,400 pages. NAFTA and CAFTA are not about free trade, they are about political union.

Watch the history of the EU and you will see our future. First they do the economic union, then they push for political union. And it won't be under anything that looks like the U.S. Constitution.


10 posted on 06/27/2005 6:11:45 PM PDT by OK
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To: Dog Gone

Well, let's see....

CAFTA will be run by unaccountable bureaucrats that nobody voted for. They will write 10,000 laws that no citizen or legislator will ever be given a chance to approve or reject. The validity of the laws will be determined and judged by unelected NGO courts whose decisions may not be appealed.

Yep, it's another "free trade" dictatorship.

Oh, and CAFTA will create so many jobs that all the illegals will go running home manyana to slurp up the gravy, get blessed with manna from sustainable utopian swamp gods and live happily ever after with a chicken in every pot.


11 posted on 06/27/2005 6:11:45 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food)
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To: Nateman
One of the interesting things about Cafta is that it relaxes the iron grip American Sugar Barons have on sugar imports a tiny little bit. Rather than risk losing thier fat monopoly on sugar production they are fighting this treaty tooth and nail. (We pay 2 to 3 times the world price for sugar because of these congressionally backed thieves!)
12 posted on 06/27/2005 6:12:18 PM PDT by Nateman
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To: sergeantdave
CAFTA will be run by unaccountable bureaucrats that nobody voted for.

That's the tragedy of treaties like this. While free trade is a good thing their always seems to be some collectivist cockroachs lurking about ready to insert their poison into an otherwise good thing by messing with the details.

13 posted on 06/27/2005 6:20:02 PM PDT by Nateman
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To: sergeantdave
You know, I searched the CAFTA agreement and can't find anyplace where any CAFTA bureaucrat can write any new laws.

Perhaps you would like to put down whatever BS literature you're reading about this bill and prove it.

You can't, by they way, since I've read it and you obviously have not.

Prove me wrong.

14 posted on 06/27/2005 6:24:35 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: OK
NAFTA and CAFTA are not about free trade, they are about political union.

Try reading the body of the text. It's not that long. The schedules phasing out the tariffs on our exports is long.

The idea the Guatamala is going to become part of the US as a result of CAFTA, or that it even leads to that is bonkers.

15 posted on 06/27/2005 6:29:50 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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>> I wonder where the Buchanan brigades are?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431895/posts

Their ranks are apparently thinning.


16 posted on 06/27/2005 6:31:29 PM PDT by mmercier (the prince and the discourse)
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To: Dog Gone
Didn't I see him doin a FReeper swan song, or whatever they calls that "good bye cruel world" tune they sings as they be kissin FR goodbye??? OPUS!!! That's what I was tryin ta remember!!! (or was it opuss?)

I figured he's gone so I din't ping 'em because of takin his name in vain.

17 posted on 06/27/2005 6:34:50 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Arnold Schwarzenrenegger is Cauleeforneeah's Greenievenator!!! He's infected with GANG-GREEN!!!)
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To: Dog Gone
I am against it. Secure the borders first, then we'll take about trade agreements, maybe. NAFTA was soooo successful, actually every bit of NAFTA was a steaming pile. Why should I think otherwise of CAFTA?
18 posted on 06/27/2005 6:37:20 PM PDT by austinite
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Perhaps if Free Trade ageements had anything to do with illegal immigration, you'd have a point.


19 posted on 06/27/2005 6:41:16 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: sergeantdave; Carry_Okie; Dog Gone; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
Well dang!!! I finally found somethin you and I don't fully agree upon!!! Not that I think so-called "free trade" is the panacea that some do, I just don't get all horrified about it and consider it the eternal curse of humanity that others seem to.

Well? Not everybody agrees with me that GovernMental EnvironMentalism is the eternal curse of humanity either so I guess there's the balance point. I sure see more Commonism & Socialism mixed with savage Paganism in G.E. (GovernMental EnvironMentalism) than I do in CAFTA & NAFTA and the like!!!

(That's why I think what I think is evil in EnvironMental treaties is way more evil that what some people think is evil in "free-trade" agreements.)

20 posted on 06/27/2005 6:43:50 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Arnold Schwarzenrenegger is Cauleeforneeah's Greenievenator!!! He's infected with GANG-GREEN!!!)
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