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To: LdSentinal
Yes, Hunter has been part of the problem, and not the solution....But hey! He likes walls and fortresses around America, and that's good enough for the anti-free trade freepers who call themselves "The true conservatives".
132 posted on 03/09/2007 8:24:19 PM PST by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: Cold Heat

If your city was up against the Mexican border and you had tens of thousands of illegals in your city costing the tax payers tens of millions of dollars you wouldn't make such a stupid comment.

Why don't you leave you doors open at night so others can come into your home and eat your food, use your credit cards or money, etc.


142 posted on 03/09/2007 8:28:45 PM PST by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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To: Cold Heat

The only reason to debate Hunter's campaign is for the fun of it, because I guarantee you that he'll never become a contender in this election. He'll be lucky to reach Dennis Kucinich status.


146 posted on 03/09/2007 8:30:29 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Cold Heat

....But hey! He likes walls and fortresses around America, and that's good enough for the anti-free trade freepers who call themselves "The true conservatives".



http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=5031


Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution:


"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another."




". . . . While we earlier saw how 54 words in the U.S. Constitution established free trade among the states of the Union, NAFTA weighs in at over 2,000 pages, 900 of which are tariff rates. (Under true free trade, there is one tariff rate—0 percent.) The agreement does have trade-liberalizing features, to be sure. Consisting of a 10 percent reduction in tariffs to be phased in over 15 years, however, they are all but buried under the profusion of controls NAFTA also establishes.

In the first place, the benefit from those tariff reductions are jeopardized by the agreement’s snap-back provisions. Those permit pre-NAFTA tariff levels to be restored against imported items which cause or threaten serious injury to domestic industry. In other words, NAFTA supports free trade as long as it does not promote international competition which is too hot for favored domestic firms to handle. In addition, NAFTA’s rules of origin are designed to divert trade from the world’s most efficient suppliers to North America’s most efficient suppliers. This hobbles the international division of labor instead of expanding it, as true free trade does.


. . . . Free trade does not depend on international bureaucracies, yet NAFTA creates several of them. Its Commission for Environmental Cooperation was set up to enforce the environmental aim of sustainable growth. One tactic it uses is to prevent countries from trying to create a friendlier environment for investors by relaxing any extant environmental regulations. Such rules are to be enforced by trade sanctions and fines, with the latter to go into a slush fund for environmental law enforcement. NAFTA also created a Labor Commission, whose purpose is to level the playing field between trading partners with regard to labor costs. To repeat, free trade this is not."

Free Trade I guess


423 posted on 03/10/2007 10:38:14 AM PST by TheeOhioInfidel (ATTENTION: DUNCAN HUNTER WOULD PARDON THE TEXAS 3.)
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