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To: 1rudeboy; mysterio
Non-answer. I’ll take that to mean that you and the other protectionists would rather keep the status quo—Colombian products enter the U.S. duty free, and our get tariffed out the wazoo.

Don't know about mysterio but my solution the problem you have mentioned here isn't to outsource our bread and butter to other countries, such as colombia, but to tax their a** as much as they tax ours. Fair trade is a farce and has brought nothing but devastation to this country, anyone who can't see that is blind, including you. Sure, you can post some phony figures that show how great Nafta and other idiotic programs are but most of the statistics are false, very similar to the phony data used to prove "global warming".

Our economy and the steady drop in real wages is the real proof. Not only that, people such as me who have lived many, many years know that the percentage of wages to prices was much better in the 50s, for instance.

You can scream and call names and do other idiotic BS but it doesn't change the facts. Nafta and other similar programs have knocked the crap out of the average person's wage to price ratio. Both people in a marriage, or just a couple living together if you will, have to work now, before the 1970s. this was not true, one person worked and the average person bought cars and houses with no problem.

This is not true now, regardless of how you want to spin it, the proof is in the pudding as they say.Free trade sucks.

15 posted on 03/16/2008 1:10:56 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59
You don't get it, do you? Colombian goods enter the U.S. duty-free under the Andean Trade Preference Act. Our goods are hit with tariffs. If you oppose the Colombian FTA, then you are in favor of the current system, and do not wish to see the tariffs on U.S. goods removed.

And if you are in favor of raising tariffs on Colombian goods, then you are in fact arguing that the government knows how to spend your money better than yourself. There can be no other explanation why you so freely are willing to hand it over.

16 posted on 03/16/2008 1:16:01 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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