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To: Egon
It's about keeping the free trade model on a level playing field. It's not happening. We're signing onto these "free trade" agreements with both hands tied behind our backs.

A agree with you there, but we need to work on leveling the playing field, not taking our ball and going home. Do you really think the U.S. behemoth is gonna let the little gnats get the best of it? The U.S. will win...it always has.

124 posted on 07/28/2005 9:10:30 AM PDT by Lekker 1 ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927)
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To: Lekker 1
A agree with you there, but we need to work on leveling the playing field, not taking our ball and going home. Do you really think the U.S. behemoth is gonna let the little gnats get the best of it? The U.S. will win...it always has.

I don't think we should take the ball and go home-- but it would be preferable to giving the game away completely.

Even with NAFTA and CAFTA in place, we can continue to work on removing some of our own barriers to our own success. My fear, though, is that some of the wording of these agreements ties our hands and removes our own ability to regulate ourselves. Instead, it hands over control to the WTO, which has not proven itself to be overly friendly to American business interests.

If we hand over enough control to foreign organizations, it makes it less likely that the "U.S. will always win."

136 posted on 07/28/2005 9:24:56 AM PDT by Egon (By the way, I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.)
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