FREE TRADE for CHILE and SINGAPORE ?

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[Suck My AR-16]

  In the U.S. House of Representatives right NOW !

( H.R. 2738) to implement the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement, and for consideration of the bill ( H.R. 2739) to implement the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

[lelio]

Related post. Hopefully FReepers won't see "Teamsters" and automatically discount it.

[Suck My AR-16]

Thank You !

Is there any manufacturing left in the U.S. to transfer to these nations ?

[aynrandfreak]

Cheap foreign labor is the best check we have on excessive union demands.

[lelio]

Cheap foreign labor is the best check we have on excessive union demands.

What about non-union jobs like computer programming and xray techs that are fleeing the country?

[staytrue]

Singapore is a technologically advanced, law biding, high wage country. I see no problem here. Chile is far away and a very minor trading partner. The effect from chile should be very small either plus or minus.

[hchutch]

Chile has much less of a welfare state and a much better retirement security program as well.

[Slyfox]

I think I read recently that the Chile economy is the strongest in all of South America. I think they took the Republican party ideal of free enterprise and ran with it. So, it might be good for us to be doing something positive with a country who is not dealing in slave labor.

[Last Dakotan]

"Cheap foreign labor is the best check we have on excessive union demands."

I used to think that way too, but now I see $6.50 an hour foundry jobs here in North Dakota going to China. Where does it end?

[Shermy]

Cheap foreign labor is the best check we have on excessive union demands.

Is that the Libertarian/Corporate spin these days? Cheap labor is a short-term profit strategy. When the American consumer's market power is eviscerated, the multinationals will move elsewhere - faster than now.

[superloser]

One of the provisions of this bill is that those two countries get an unlimited number of H1-B and L1 visas.

I hope you like your paycheck. Its about to vanish. Get used to training your replacement.

[Suck My AR-16]

ALSO SEE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/951389/posts?page=4

[jayhd]

Why shouldn't capital move to cheap labor when cheap labor will do? I'd rather have our workers working with computers than sewing machines. Does that make sense intuitively?

I don't know what you mean by American comsumers' market power "eviscerat[ing]." How would that happen?