[A. Pole]

He [Bush] said he had to convince Americans that "a 300-million-person market of middle-class citizens here in India" would soon be buying American goods.

"If we can make a product they want, then it becomes — at a reasonable price — and then all of a sudden, people will be able to have a market here," he said.

What would be such products? What is a "reasonable price" for Indian middle class? Why would such products be made in USA?

[sheana]

Seems to me the product they want is nuclear tech. And he already gave them that, for mangoes.

[Clintonfatigued]

We ought to be shunning globalism. Globalism has been the policy of the United States for yeares. The people have been promised that there would be new customer bases for American products and new jobs & opportunities for Americans unheard of.

The results of free trade and globalism do not reflect well on its proponents, and prospects for the future are not encouraging.

[ex-snook]

Thanks for the ping along. Here is Patrick J. Buchanan March 10, 2006.

"A year after NAFTA passed, the U.S. trade surplus had vanished. From 1995 through 1998, we ran $20 billion trade deficits with Mexico. From 1999 through 2005, the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico grew every year, from $27 billion in 1999 to last year's $54 billion."

"Where Hufbauer and Schott had predicted $100-plus billion in trade surpluses with Mexico from 1994 to today, NAFTA delivered some $400 billion in cumulative U.S. trade deficits. A $500 billion mistake by the crack Hufbauer-Schott team."

And that increasing trade deficit does not include all the drug purchases.

[chris1]

Do they place tarrifs on our products coming in???????