Posted on 07/27/2005 5:42:46 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina
He's up now, his 30 page mini-novel of why he voted no will be out tomorrow.
what percentage of Boeing aricraft come in as subassemblies from foreign countries? will that percentage increase, or decrease, in the coming years? ask yourself the same question regarding auto manufacturing. how long then, before Boeing's US operations simply consist of executives, management, and sales and marketing? you can apply the same to HP, blowing their white collar technology staffs away, already having moved manufacturing offshore. Great for them, great for their stockholders - and the workers who rely on Boeing and HP for their middle class jobs?
Funny thing is that CAFTA is really not very important by itself. The countries involved are tiny compared to Mexico, much less the United States. The 'Rats see this as an opportunity to embarass the President and the protectionists see this as a chance to end any future free trade agreement.
Did he really just claim that the Bill will take away Flintstone's Chewables without a prescription?
lol
Protect what? Minimum wage jobs in the US like the textile industry who employ non HS graduates and whose products cost 3-4 times than they should. Why would we want to protect jobs like those? We should be aiming higher for ourselves.
Sugar lost to bananas on this deal.
Basically, yes.
And you're spinning 10.5.2.
I think you're reading some crap article and repeating their spin instead of looking at the agreement for yourself.
Admit it. You haven't read the agreement. You just subscribe to a someone who does your thinking for you on CAFTA.
My husband had to turn it to another channel when Ron Paul was up there. How did explain that one about the vitamins? How does that relate to the bill?
""what percentage of Boeing aricraft come in as subassemblies from foreign countries?""
What percent of airbus, toyota, mercedes, nissan, Komatsu is made in the USA???
EADS has a large planet at the mobile airport, all the above mentioned companies have large and growing facilites in the Southern USA. Being a Southern, I dont subscribe to your "manufacturing is dying" BS
Reuters: "The White House has a harder time rounding up votes for CAFTA than for any other recent trade pact because of stiff opposition from many Republicans in textile and sugar-producing states who fear it will cause job losses."
Me: I'm all for cheaper sugar and clothes.
If you're against CAFTA you're misinformed.
OH GOD, it's bad enough we have Sonovich and DeWanker in Ohio, now Stephanie Tubbs Jones is up. At least we have Rob Portman.
Ron Paul claims CAFTA will require presciptions for Vitamins.
Nafta, Cafta, Shafta?
Why? Because he is a conservative that doesnt let the WSJ op ed pages or Limbaugh do the thinking for him. He is one of the very last mainstreet style Conservatives(even though he was registered Libertarian in the late 80s) left in congress
I really don't think many people want to talk about our constitution. Most want to talk about 80% of 10%. </sarcasm>
To be honest I haven't read the bill but how is he claiming that?
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