Posted on 07/27/2005 8:45:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives will approve a new free trade agreement with Central America late on Wednesday with the help of a few Democrats, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said.
"It will be a tough vote but we'll pass CAFTA tonight," DeLay told reporters after a meeting between President Bush and House Republicans. "We will honor our commitments to the south, we will protect our national security and will do it all with very few Democrats."
"It's always something, if not, it's something else." - Emily Latella (SNL)
When Delay refers to 'we' or 'our' he ain't talking about Americans...his globalist rescuers perhaps...
imo
Go Delay! Go Cafta!
Employing deceptive rhetoric laced with false appeals to "free market" and "free trade" principles, they have lured many Republicans and conservatives into supporting trade pacts that amount to major subsidies by U.S. taxpayers and consumers for the participating corporations and foreign governments.
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"The Bush administration has made it quite clear that it is using CAFTA as a steppingstone for the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would include all 34 nations of this hemisphere," McManus notes. "In fact," he points out, "the Preamble of the CAFTA text explicitly states that the parties to the pact pledge to: ‘Contribute to hemispheric integration and provide an impetus toward establishing the Free Trade Area of the Americas.’
This should provide all the impetus that any real American needs to jump into the fight against CAFTA.
We have already seen the broken promises and devastating impact of NAFTA — lost jobs and production, huge trade deficits, increased illegal immigration — but the far greater threat in the long run is the threat these agreements pose to our independence and sovereignty. NAFTA and WTO [World Trade Organization] courts and regulations are already being used to supersede our state and federal laws and constitutional protections. CAFTA and FTAA would multiply and expand these subversive assaults."
"We will honor our commitments to the south"
The south of what? South of the border?
The American people know that elected representation, public scrutiny, public debate are good.
CAFTA gives us unelected bureacracies, secret negotiations and partnering with corporate interests breeding corruption and undermining the indivdiuals right to representation and self government, are bad.
You guys are the only ones who don't seem to get it.
So CAFTA hasn't been under public scrutiny? There has been no public debate?
"China good. Let's continue feeding the Chinese war machine."
Ha ha... good one. Create the China trade problem, then peddle the "solution," which is (drum roll please)... more of the same.
You speak as if a choice between the two is being offered. It isn't.
I will never vote republican again and I will actively discourage everyone I know from ever voting republican again.
REPUBLICANS=SELLING OUT THE AMERICA DEMOCRATS ONLY DREAMED OF SELLIING. THANKS GEORGE
The arguements made for this are so effing hollow.
"but not all Republicans aren't selling out to globalism"
True, but this is the direction of the party as a whole.
So they leave us 2 choices.
Third party, or we all need to get elected to our central committees and retake the party.
What shall it be?
If they do pass CAFTA and the President signs it, it'll be one of the nation's biggest wholesale sell-outs of the decade. America will hear Ross Perot's famed giant sucking sound with the exception, loyal Americans may replace Sierra with Foxtrot as appropriate.
Makes one wonder exactly who the Washington bureaucrats are representing. I certainly will hesitate to vote putting any of THEM that supported it back into elected office.
The biggest difference between a "D" and an "R" is the shape of the crook behind the little straight guy.
Here is the House schedule for the rest of the week.
Looks like they will take an unscheduled vote for the CAFTA because they don't want the American people to be able to kick up a fuss about it before it happens.
PROGRAM FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK
WEEK OF JULY 24, 2005
actually, if the Democratic party stopped throwing up ultra-leftists - if they came up with a moderate who was in tune to these kinds of economic issues, that would be an option.
the current republican party does this - because they know we have no where else to go if we don't want to see Hillary elected.
It's a good deal for American big business. And in case you haven't noticed, that is all the GOP stands for these days. from the disgraceful bankruptcy "reform" to open borders to CAFTA.
Free trade, more jobs, lower prices. Sounds good to me!
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