CAFTA Can Be Stopped! Please Keep the Pressure on Your Rep!

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[Happy2BMe]

CAFTA Can Be Stopped! Please Keep the Pressure on Your Rep!
 
"So far, administration officials concede they still do not have the votes to pass CAFTA in the House."
                                                                                               --- Washington Post, July 21, 2005

This is it! Our nation's independence and our personal freedom hang in the balance.

• House leaders project a vote on CAFTA next week (more precisely on July 27th). As reported in the Washington Post today, the administration concedes they still don't have enough votes to pass CAFTA. A sign of that shortfall is the fact that the House Ways and Means Committee has repeatedly delayed submitting its favorable committee report that would clear the way for a vote by the full House.
   

• However, do not be deceived. The Bush administration and its pro-CAFTA allies have been very busy on many fronts during the past couple months, building toward a CAFTA majority, vote by vote. Remember that in 1993 NAFTA was supposed to be in trouble, but still won handily. Furthermore, this administration has a record of winning the close votes.
   
• Still, the vote promises to be a real cliffhanger. Many of you have already helped keep CAFTA on the ropes. Now you must keep the pressure on your rep either to maintain his intention to vote no or to switch from yes to no.
   
• Last Friday, President Bush lobbied for CAFTA in the Carolinas yet appears to have come away with nothing. Grassroots anti-CAFTA pressure there has been intense. It needs to be just as intense in every congressional district.
   
• Our latest tool for impressing your rep that CAFTA must be defeated is "CAFTA Battle Rages in Congress," The New American, July 25, 2005 issue.  This hard-hitting article gives specific examples of how CAFTA threatens our independence by quoting directly from the CAFTA Agreement itself.
   

• See the July issue of STAY INFORMED, the STOP the FTAA Newsletter, for links to our earlier CAFTA alerts and our "Danger: CAFTA " video clip. See also "The War on the Border" video clip, which links the illegal immigration problem with CAFTA. You can forward the links to the video clips to your representative and his staff, as well as to others in your sphere of influence.
   
• Check the "What's Hot" section of STOPCAFTA.com regularly for the latest news on the CAFTA battle.

So it's come to this. Many of you have it in your power to make the difference in this critically important CAFTA vote.

Let's win this one for ourselves and our families!

[Happy2BMe]

We don't havta CAFTA.

[stocksthatgoup]

Frankly I find CAFTA to be a good idea. Unless of course we all want to continue the influx of illegal workers. Most think the pie is only so big. I say Let's bake a bigger pie.

[Happy2BMe]

Bush presses for CAFTA as DeLay predicts win

[SolidSupplySide]

We don't havta CAFTA.

But I *like* tax cuts.

[hedgetrimmer]

CAFTA will increase the flow of illegal workers. They will be the low skilled labor displaced by the CAFTA. This will happened because the CAFTA reinforces our obligations to the WTO and their Mode 4 rule. Part of all trade agreements these days are when the "rich" countries agree to take unskilled labor from "poor" countries via illegal immigration in order to get consent from the government's of the poor countries to pass FDI and "free trade" laws that favor the transnational corporations.

When you vote yes on CAFTA or any "free trade" agreement you are voting yes on illegal immigration.

[Happy2BMe]

A tax cut will do you a lot of good with nowhere to spend it.

[blackeagle]

What position do you think America will assume tonight? One of kicking the globalists out the door, or one of grabbing its ankles? I'm predicting the latter.

[SolidSupplySide]

A tax cut will do you a lot of good with nowhere to spend it.

I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that high taxes and prosperity go hand in hand?

[Shermy]

"Last Friday, President Bush lobbied for CAFTA in the Carolinas yet appears to have come away with nothing."

Bush went to the Carolinas to push a "free" trade treaty? Rove is a genius!

< /sarcasm>

[Unam Sanctam]

Free Trade is a lot better than pouring aid money down the sink. We're better off if these countries develop economically. Plus free trade raises all boats.

[TXBSAFH]

I have todya canlled my rep Delay, I do not think he cares though.

[Happy2BMe]

The effects of tonight's vote will affect this country for 100 years.

[Happy2BMe]

I'm suggesting your tax cut won't be worth the paper it is written on if the money backing it up is worthless.

[BikerNYC]

Wait. The President is for CAFTA and the democrats are against it, and you want me to be against it?

[G.Mason]

Okay. That's the John Birch Society view.

Here is the Hertitage Foundation view.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

CAFTA opens up the floodgates.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

There's only three to five years left.

[Happy2BMe]

What will all the CAFTA supporters do five years from now when their golden calf suddenly dies at their feet and their vacation homes are confiscated by the "American Travellers" for the common good of "North America?"

[Czar]

Hmmmm...not a single word debunking the "loss of sovereignty" myth.

Why do you suppose that is?

Couldn't be because both NAFTA and CAFTA dilute and erode U.S. sovereignty, now could it?

[dead]

Are you suggesting that high taxes and prosperity go hand in hand?

Once you call a "tax" a "tariff", you can get all kinds of "conservatives" to embrace them.