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Here's a note I sent to Jim Snyder, a former candidate for Senate from NC:

"Washington aggressively forged NAFTA and Fastrack, which has resulted in 22.05 billion dollars of goods being exported to communist China in 2002, while we import from Jiang Zemin, the architect of the Tiananmen Square tragedies, 125.17 billion dollars of goods."

Dear Mr. Snyder,

Let us not soon forget our newly-elected Senator is frequently referred to as "The Queen of WalMart" and WalMart as "the China Factory Outlet Store".

Sure, the residents of our state, our nation needs jobs - and like you, I see our misguided former government leaders were/are the culprits in sending our jobs overseas and across our borders.

One foundation of our government's existence is to protect those of whom are its governed and who PAY the taxes to support it. Yet the U.S. government seems too preoccupied in defending the trade "rights" of those who will never bear the cost of our government, and seemingly more protective of those most hostile to us. Foolish, isn't it?

I propose that our government place a moratorium on factory relocations in such that those companies which choose to leave our borders suffer their product be banned from U.S. markets for a minimum of five years or be heavily tariffed by thirty-six percent on all imports. Those tariffs are destined to help offset the negative economic effects of their decisions to relocate. The five year ban would reduce the offending company's hold on market share, thus increasing the chance that that market likely be filled with a domestic provider which pays taxes and provides incomes for our citizens.

In short, we would be stating without uncertainty to those companies eager to close their doors and move, if you leave the U.S., you forfeit all protections afforded to our citizens. We must make those protections the incentive for those companies to remain in the U.S. We also must make the resulting costs of that choice to move be borne by those companies as a deterrent to those closings.

We cannot continue the path of our supporting tax base to erode by allowing them to move to foreign lands - immuned to taxation while continuing to offer trade protections to them.

May God continue to bless and mercifully guide our great country,
Signed

But, it'd never fly - too many politicians are already bought.