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Are you referring to the President whom we are allowing to become a dictator. Clinton taught Bush just what the sheeple will allow. Damn near anything as long as he says it is for us and our America. When Congress and the Senate slid GATT down our throats that was preparation for NAFTA. NAFTA went so easily that the USA PATRIOT ACT almost fell down without anyone having to swallow.

Now I know our leaders are supposed to read and study Bills before they vote on them. This is a practice that has been determined to be unnecessary as GATT, NAFTA and the USA PATRIOT ACT have proven. Were the Congressmen allowed their recent pay raise because they did not object to the USA PATRIOT ACT ? You tell me.

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This whole PNTR thing did not originate with Bush or Clinton. It goes way on back to the Kissinger era.

Basically what this whole thing is about is... Back in the 70's when trade started the US required annual reviews of China trade based on all kinds of stuff. They extended them a package, then told the Chinese 'we are going to review it every single year'.

With the thing now, the package has not changed. Not the one we gave them at least. The only thing we did is end those annual reviews. It did not change any of the framework at all as far as I know.

I think we did that because it is required for China's WTO entry. Why is WTO important? It is not that it will give China more access to the US, but it will give the US more access to China. Supposedly it will make trade more reciprocal. At least thats the theory.