Say 'no' to CAFTA

The Huntsville Times ^ | Sunday, July 17, 2005 | David Prather

[Josh in PA]

Shhhhhh.... Don't tell the Anti-Free Trade idiots this.

Don't tell them that the economies and societies of these Latin American countries will improve above Banana Republic-level and their citizens will have less incentive to break into our country illegally.


The truly sad part of this whole thing is that we have our era's equivalent of Albert Einstein as our financial counsellors in the name of Ben Bernanke, Glenn Hubbard, and others, yet ol Willie Green from Pittsburgh, PA knows more than EVERYBODY!! Listen to Willie and you can never go wrong!! :rolleyes:

[printhead]

I'm still overwhelmed with all the benefits that NAFTA has brought in.

[Mi-kha-el]

My point exactly. Besides, we are training their military, they have sent troops to Iraq and fought bravely (Salavador, Nicaragua, Honduras) and unlike Mexico they don't hate us or claim part of our territory and unlike China do not pose a security thrat and don't threaten to use nukes against us. Central American countries have a decades-long experience of fighting communism. And we helped them with that. Last not least. If we do not tie those countries to us with trade and other relations, China will be all over it (does Panama Canal ring any bells). Those countries are strategically too important to us to give them up.

[Clintonfatigued]

This country has had one free trade agreement after another, and the results have not benefitted the average American.

What makes anybody think this will be any different?

[clayrains]

What?! Do you know anything at all about agriculture? Do you realize that the U.S. heavily subsidizes it's farmers' grain and other farm goods, hence the artiificially low prices of $1.60 to 2.50 per bushel that American farmers are paid for corn, for example? The difference is made up mby the IRS stealing it from the American people and giving it to farmers. But don't think American farmers are really benefiting from this.

Do you think that the middlemen, who buy grain for next to nothing from American farmers then sell it to other countries, are going to pass on the savings? Hell no. They'll turn around and sell it to the Hondurans, Guatemalans and Costa Ricans at full price, albeit at an attractive enough discount compared to locally grown Central-American corn. Of course, I doubt the poor governments of those countries will have money to subsidize their farmers and make up for their farmer's lost wages, so those poor farmers will be even poorer, most of them out of business totally. Guess where they're likely to come looking for work?!

The statements that CAFTA will mean that "their citizens will have less incentive to break into our country illegally" is a load of crap!
This is exactly what happened to Mexican-U.S. corn markets with NAFTA and why we've seen such a flood of illegal immigrants from Mexico since its implementation. Now you have crooked politicians who want to make it worse by adding a few countries to that?! CAFTA screws U.S. taxpayers, screws Central-American farmers, screws North American Farmers as well as other workers in both countries. The only ones who make out are corporations and, in the agriculture arena, international commodities dealers, as well as the crooked bastard politicians that they paid off to pass this nonsense. But there's so much more to CAFTA.

Just one example is the fact that hidden withion CAFTA is a provision that would make vitamins and other supplements nearly impossible for Americans and eveyone else in the world to get. After CAFTA is passed, we'll now be dangerously close to the day when you need a doctor's prescription to buy VITAMIN C!

With the help of CAFTA, the health and nutrition of Americans is at the mercy of international foreign panels, who set all the standards, whether it's based on true science or not. This is a threat to our national sovereignty! This is not a liberal-conservative issue. Everyone gets the shaft, except the GLOBALIST NAZIS that want to rule over us and the entire world!