I normally do not go for the free trade kool aid, but in this case we should support Columbia in this manner, they are an ally, and they are fighting the drug wars in their own back yard.
But how to keep the Trade Deal from becoming a “let’s lower the price of cocaine” deal?
Thanks for your suppport. You are a real man and not a sorosite maggot.
Free trade doesn’t cover cocaine. Coke dealers don’t need a free trade deal, they do illegal smuggling free trade or no free trade. Colombia’s rose growers on the other hand need free trade because they only trade legally.
Basically, we can have all the coke dealers and coke we want if we refuse to extend colombia free trade. What will happen is the rose farmers, who could benefit from free trade will go out of business if they don’t get free trade and will move over to the cocaine industry where they don’t need no stinking free trade. I’d rather they stuck to growing roses and sold them here. Doing roses keeps them busy with roses. Put them out of business and they’ll go back to cocaine.