[Shisan]

Would you please elucidate. Who are those "outside interests" and what would you do to stop the turn over?

[inquest]

The outside interests are the foreign corporations and tycoons, in many cases backed by their governments. If, as you imply with your question, nothing is going to stop them from taking over, then it's not going to make any difference whether CAFTA goes into effect or not, so there's no need to push for it.

[hedgetrimmer]

Who are those "outside interests" and what would you do to stop the turn over?

The WTO for one. Right now the three candidates for president of the WTO have all worked for various groups that have vested interests in destroying segements of the American economy. One canditate is a lobbyist for the sugar plantations in Mauritus. Another is Brazilian-- Brazil is interested in knocking out competing cotton producers in the US and is currently suing the US in the WTO to do so. The third busted US patent laws and intellectual property rights by helping to write the WTO directive that gives "least developed countries" like China, Nigeria, etc, permission to produce patented medicines without paying royalties and to get medicines at below cost. This of course is a socialist wealth redistribtution scheme because US customers are now paying more for medicines to subsidize "least developed countries" like the economic powerhouse China.

You do know that the WTO is out to kill sugar and cotton subsidies in the US don't you? Wouldn't it be great to have a president that's already been working on the project? It would save the WTO a lot of time and effort.