[datura]

Enough of this "free trade". Globalism is done, just as the NWO once was. It has become obvious that the only oes who profit from this scheme are the ones who haven't paid in blood to defend this nation - of course they would be the ones to sell us out first.

[EagleUSA]

Right on! Down with CAFTA - just another NWO/One America scheme that Americans will pay dearly for. It is only a product of massive political egos and agendas of Washington elitists.

It is NOT FOR THE PEOPLE!

[cripplecreek]

No CAFTA for me thanx.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I imagine we'll see Phyllis Schlafly banned from the forum now, too.

Can't upset the mindless.

[RockinRight]

My father has a saying regarding this:

"Free trade is fine as long as it's FAIR trade...and since we're America we ought to be the ones deciding what fair is..."

[SolidSupplySide]

Economists know that even unilaterally lowering trade barriers improves a country's wealth. Having it done on both ends doubles the benefit.

I don't understand the high tax proponents who claim they are conservative and oppose CAFTA.

[Digger]

Here was the spin pn NAFTA:
1)create a US trade surplus
2)raise the standard of living in both Mexico & US
3)make a more honest Mex government
4)stop the flow of illegals
Fool me once ...........

[Fawn]

Americans don't want to be "integrated" with the poverty, corruption, socialism, and communism of our hemispheric neighbors

Exactly.

[n-tres-ted]

PS may know family, but I must say respectfully she does not know economics or trade. This is the kind of thinking that gave us Smoot-Hawley, the Crash of '29 and the Great Depression. Competition is the way the world works, and building walls of chain link or taxes will not change that fact. I am an originalist on matters of the Constitution and our national interests, and I look out for the interests of ordinary working people. The more we can integrate Central and South America into productive roles in our culture, the better for all of us.

[Iron Matron]

the Senate Republican policy paper assures us that CAFTA will diminish "the incentives for illegal immigration to the United States."

Does the policy paper actually tell us why it would diminish incentives for illegals? Well, it's because CAFTA will "go around" Congress and place immigration under FEDERAL TRADE, that's why. This is an unconstitutional usurpation of power from "We the People" to Foreign Committees/Governments.

In the Union of the Americas, free trade means free and unrestricted travel all the way from South America, through the Brand new "Trade Corridor/Super Highway" (which is being dumped on taxpayers as we speak) and on up in to Canada.

Interfering with folks from another country could be considered illegal under CAFTA..we could not "impede the movement of free trade", etc.

Any USA President that signs this Trade/Treaty should be IMPEACHED.

[SittinYonder]

Western Europeans recognized in the proposed EU Constitution a loss of national identity and freedom, to a foreign bureaucracy, plus a redistribution of wealth from richer countries to poorer countries.

I think this is an optimistic but erroneous view of why the EU was defeated. If this were true, I believe we could say western civilization in Europe was saved, but this is not why France voted down the EU constitution.

[dljordan]

If President Bush says it's good then I'm for it. A good born-again Christian man like the president wouldn't try and swindle us or sell us out to global corporations.

[Paul Ross]

Bump.

[sergeantdave]

This is a sovereignty issue. Unaccountable international tribunals issuing decrees along with unelected CAFTA bureaucrats writing law is not a republican form of government. This looks more like soviet socialism.

[Cultural Jihad]

It reads like a lot of propaganda. Markets should be opened, not closed.

[Truthsayer20]

The EU Constitution was defeated, because Western Europeans don't want to be politically, economically, or socially integrated with the culture, economy, lifestyle, or history of Eastern Europe and Muslim countries. Western Europeans recognized in the proposed EU Constitution a loss of national identity and freedom, to a foreign bureaucracy, plus a redistribution of wealth from richer countries to poorer countries.

What a laugh. The Europeans, namely the French, rejected the EU constitution because they thought it supported evil anglo-American style capitalism.

[ken21]

there was a large ad today from a union against cafta.

one reason to be for cafta.

[Stellar Dendrite]

As someone else stated: I am all for free trade as long as its FAIR!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Damn right. This isn't free trade, it's managed trade. As long as we allow Americans and American-based businesses to export and import freely, subject to modest tariffs, that should be enough!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

CAFTA would even prohibit U.S. states from giving preference to American workers when taxpayer-funded contracts are granted.

Unbelievable. Why the hell SHOULDN'T we prefer Americans to work on American projects, such as the Interstate Highway system???