"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."
--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.
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...