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.
The more goods that arrive in the US from Columbia, the greater the ease of smuggling the ya-yo into the US.
However, it is my opinion that the drugs will be smuggled either way, it makes more sense to encourage more legitimate business with Columbia just to support their economy, and to Uribe’s credit, he hasn’t given into the Venezuelian backed FNLM/MS-13 like his predecessor did allowing the commies to have home bases out in the jungles.
Besides, maybe the price of Emeralds will fall if this is implemented.....:)