[B4Ranch]

"FTAA will be enacted in January of 2005, after which we will no longer have the ability to regulate ourselves, our borders and our trade."

I found it amazing that so many middle aged Americans of average intelligence supported NAFTA merely because their senators said to do so.

Am I amazed again that these same people are supporting The Free Trade of the Americas Act because our President say to do so? Astonishingly, yes I am!

What will it take for them to comprehend that this is exactly the same as opening our front and back doors to looters? While watching the initial days during our conquerance of Baghdad, I said to my wife, "That is what's happening in the US with the illegal immigrants. Freely gathering up everything they want, while we continue to push more free goods at them. Some day someone will get the bill for this 'good neighbor attitude" and find out we have overspent our budget." She just nodded her head, and agreed saying, "Yes, it will be us and the kids who will get stuck with the bill for the generosity of our liars, oops, leaders."

[MissAmericanPie]

That is not the way I remember it happening. I remember it being pushed through during a holiday when most lawmakers were leaving D.C. for the Thanksgiving holiday.

I remember a reporter asking a Senator if he understood what GATT would do to the second amendment and the Senator said no he had not read it in it's entirity, the reporter asked him since now he had been made aware would he vote for it now and the Senator said no, but of course he was lying. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

At the time I didn't understand what was going on, I wasn't as political then as now.