Bush Seeks Expanded Trade Powers

FOX NEWS/ capitolhillblue.com/ Associated Press ^ | Saturday, April 27, 2002

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[weikel]

Okay for all Buchanites out there I have a question are we really better off with commie labor Union congressmen able to amend trade pacts.

[Tuco-bad]

Bush "...some American workers may face adjustment challenges as a result of “free” trade"

If Bush faced “adjustment challenges”, Bush would be whistling a different tune.

[Willie Green]

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.

[joeyman]

Free trade doesn't require a document with thousands of pages that no one understands. Unless the aggreement says something like, "We'll put no tarriffs on them and they'll put none on us" it's not a free trade agreement, it's a way to redistribute American Wealth to poorer nations.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_02/stott042902.html

[weikel]

Okay that I will buy.

[weikel]

Okay but if you have treaties of commerce amendments by "The Senator from the Steelworkers Union" aren't a good thing.

[weikel]

My view is basically that contained in post #5 thats what a free trade agreement should say.

[Willie Green]

Okay but if you have treaties of commerce...

What don't you understand about Jefferson's advice?

[Iscool]

Mp

Depends on what you figure the meaning of WE is...

Most important, Democrats are insisting on extending a Trade Adjustment Assistance program that would include new and costly health care benefits along with retraining for workers displaced by imports.

At least this is a start...

Trade boosts productivity and creates higher-paying jobs, Bush said.

George forgot to mention that this applies only to the OTHER COUNTRIES involved...

"Over the past 10 years, this law has given the four Andean nations more access to our markets, which they report has created 140,000 jobs."

These nations do NOT sell us anything new...They sell us what we normally would make ourselves...This means Americans have LOST 140,000 jobs as a result of some of these wonderful trade agreements already...Thanks, but no thanks...

We have lost that many people from the tax base...George has instituted a Federal unemployment extension to pay these folks because they can't find work...How many ended up on welfare that you and I are now paying for??? If it takes the unions to keep jobs here, hoo-ray for unions...Obviously our elected representatives are doing nothing to protect Americans...

[weikel]

Cheaper prices benefits the economy in general.

[M 91 u2 K]

I know all you free-traders are gonna attack me for saying this, but since free trade has become the main policy of most Presidents including SLick willy, things for the country get worse. I strongly recommend the book THE GREAT BETRAYAL by Pat Buchanan. Ever since tariffs have come down good american jobs go overseas and are never replaced, and might I add with free trade comes open borders. The new high tech jobs are also going overseas. Sure we have cheaper products for now but more americans are in mininum wage jobs and are gonna want government handouts. And when a nation no longer produces anything it loses it soveriegnty.

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Ditto BUMP!!!

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[Rowdee]

But.......but.........but......geeze, those thousands of pages guarantee all those bureaucratic jobs!!! And provide cover for the asses of the legislators who are too brain dead and wrapped up in their own self worth and importance that they can't be bothered to read the damn pages!

Whazza matta with yer thinkin? Whatcha thinkin of man....wanna get in trouble with the feds? < / sarcasm >