Posted on 07/18/2005 3:01:46 PM PDT by Osage Orange
CAFTA will hurt the Chinese and help us stop sending money to a direct enemy.
Have Wal-Mart build its plastic crap in El Salvadore, not under direction from the Red Army.
Free trade is still good. We can't act like the world ends at our borders. Good relations in this hemisphere are invaluable to us. I remember the '80s and that sucked.
What are the chances that there will be a SAFTA in the coming years?
"CAFTA will hurt the Chinese and help us stop sending money to a direct enemy."
Ah, yes, we're just totally helpless when it comes to sending jobs and investment capital offshore, so we need to create another, "friendlier" one, so we won't send jobs and investment to a hostile country.
CAFTA-DR - Making The World Safe For Walmart™
"We can't act like the world ends at our borders."
Says who? The voting public in the US?
The United States should not trade with communist nations.
This is certainly good news that we'll have unaccountable CAFTA tribunals telling us which US laws are good and which are bad.
I can't wait to enjoy the rule of unelected CAFTA bureaucrats designing and interpreting laws, regulations and rules. I always wanted to live under a soviet dictatorship that issues various edicts and demands.
Go ahead and fire Congress, since it's not needed.
Should I fly the communist or UN flag?
Kinda blend the two together....better yet..have a likeness of Bill Clinton in between the Sickle & Hammer....
Sorry you feel isolationism is the way to go. I figured most of you guys were completely discredited after pearl harbor. I'm a neoconservative and believe much more pragmatically than the classical conservatism that just wasn't correct in the contemporary world.
SAFTA would be awesome! an entire hemisphere of free trade. No other trading block could even come close to that... at least not at the present time.
"Sorry you feel isolationism is the way to go. I figured most of you guys were completely discredited after pearl harbor."
Oooh, dusted off that old saw... bringin' out the big guns, LOL.
And I'm sorry that you feel that the sovreignity of our nation should be thrown out the window in service to a little short-term profit. I'm also sorry that you're in favor of building up the industrial might of China, who respects no patent, no intellectual property, and is in no way constrained from nationalizing all the fine, new factories that have been built in Guangzhou and elsewhere over the past several years.
You ARE in favor of the predecessor treaty to CAFTA-DR, known as NAFTA, aren't you? Lacking any isolationist strain as you proclaim, I'm sure that WTO membership for China was right up your alley too.
You guys really have some nerve trotting this crap out so fast on the heels of what can only be termed an utter implosion of textile manufacturing in the US, and increasingly furniture. And now agriculture, too, with "Big Sugar" being placed on the sacrificial altar. Tobacco will be next.
What other domestic industries in the US do you deem too successful, and in need of hollowing out? And what gave you the right? It certainly was not the voting public. Was it some lovely little internationalist cabal, hmmm?
Didn't know I was talking to Pat Buchanon. Hey, we'll disagree on this one.
"... at least not at the present time."
Qualifying and equivocating already, on the 11th post. Yep, that raises MY trust level, LOL.
"Didn't know I was talking to Pat Buchanon."
And I didn't know I was talking to Kofi Annan.
How much of our Constitution do you want replaced because it is not in step with a "United NA"?
Do you want Mexicans and Canadians influencing our enjoyment, of our inalienable rights?
And now agriculture, too, with "Big Sugar" being placed on the sacrificial altar. Tobacco will be next.
Good riddance to "Big Sugar"...Big Sugar is the reason Life Savers are now made in Canada (along with an increasing number of candies and baked items)
Good riddance to "Big Sugar"
OK, just so long as we know where you're coming from; you want cheap candy, and don't care how many American citizens lose their jobs to keep you stocked up, fat and happy. One question, though: where do you suppose Life Savers will be produced, if CAFTA-DR is enacted? Has it ever dawned on you to question just why it is, that Life Savers, and the increasing number of candies and baked items that you mention, are now produced in Canada? Could it be NAFTA, or is it all just one-a them there weird coincidences?
Really? So, for all the lack of support the South Americans have given us in Iraq and the War on Terror we should reward them with this treaty?????
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