U.S. Trade Representative Reviews Progress on Free Trade Goals

U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs ^ | 08 Jan 2006 | Ambassador Rob Portman

[hedgetrimmer]

The goal of "free trade" is to "alleviate poverty", not eliminate tariffs.

[hedgetrimmer]

we cannot afford to miss this once-in-a-generation opportunity to ...lift millions of people out of poverty

At what price?

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Your fortune, your life, and whatever else of yours that they need.

[Willie Green]

The goal of "free trade" is to "alleviate poverty", not eliminate tariffs.

The goal of "free trade" is to establish a transnational corporate feudal system where CEOs are sovereign and citizens are reduced to subsistance serfdom.

[hedgetrimmer]

The long-held notion of a world divided by rich countries and poor countries, or North and South, is beginning to be replaced by a system in which countries of diverse make-ups work together in pursuit of common objectives.

Its called global S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M.

[hedgetrimmer]

we committed to duty-free/quota-free treatment for goods from the world's poorest countries.

No comment on whether the American people actually WANT anything that these countries produce.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It will result in the disintegration of the nations who are at present the first world.

It could be called a form of collective suicide, but it's more like when a parent wigs out and kills the whole family before themself.

If asked, I'd prefer not to join in.

[Willie Green]

No comment on whether the American people actually WANT anything that these countries produce.

Of course not.
The objective of Dubya's global crony capitalism is to lower American Middle Class standards to Third World levels. That way those people will no longer be jealous of us and there will be global peace and harmony.

Thank goodness for gated-communities.
How could the aristocracy ever survive without them?

[A. Pole]

In addition, nations reinforced their commitment to development with significant new pledges of so-called aid for trade. This will help create the legal, administrative and physical infrastructures needed to help developing countries participate fully in the market openings we hope to achieve in the Doha Round. The United States is proud to lead the world in providing such assistance, and as part of the Doha Round, we announced a doubling of our contributions over the next five years from the current level of roughly $1.3 billion a year to $2.7 billion annually.

USA pride bump.

[hedgetrimmer]

You won't be asked. You do not have any elected representation in these matters.

[Last Dakotan]

We never will be able to control other country's markets - only our own. Thus they only way we have to get access to other markets is by selectively restricting access to our own. Trade has to be negotiated on a bilateral basis.

[hedgetrimmer]

$2.7 billion annually

US taxpayer theft bump.

[hedgetrimmer]

Trade has to be negotiated on a bilateral basis by the only authority the Constitution recognizes, the US Congress.

But the "free traders" say trade must be "multilateral". That way our nations self interest can be ignored in favor of the "poor countries" or whatever nation the WTO wants to favor at that given point in time.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

8 posted on 01/10/2006 8:48:05 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (Nobody will be asked.)

[jb6]

It's not a major price, just a lowering of our own standards, but then again, we elect our politicians to take care of 3rd world hell holes not to worry about our own nation....that's what globalism and being part of the world citizenry is all about, you selfish, nationalistic lout. How dare you say or think otherwise, why that's a hate crime, I'm sure. /sarcasm

[TXBSAFH]

By putting millions of Americans in poverty.

[swampfox98]

The United States is proud to lead the world in providing such assistance, and as part of the Doha Round, we announced a doubling of our contributions over the next five years from the current level of roughly $1.3 billion a year to $2.7 billion annually.

The United States (most citizens) are not proud to lead the world in providing such assistance. Our debt to China now exceeds 8 trillion and Congress has passed a law that will increase the debt even further. The only people who are proud to lead in "assistance" are one world globalists like George Bush, who hates the middle class and wants them brought down. He is doing a good job. He has brought millions of Mexicans in here for the American citizens to take care of, and he intends to further destory the border patrol so he can bring 30 million more in before 2010.

He has turned America into a living hell.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

We believe that expanded market access, particularly in agriculture, is the key to a final agreement.

Our -- how's it go, "buggywhip," is that what "free traders" say? -- farmers need to get into them high-payin' modern jobs which are about to explode everywhere coast-to-coast.. any day now...

Yes by all means. Let's open our supermarket bins to produce from countries that carry human waste from nearby villages and towns to pour on crops.

Talk about cheap lettuce!

Wot?

We already have.. oh.