So now tell me why, again, I should trust this government to create a "social welfare" system funded by my tax money to support a third-world country and why I should care. How is it going to help America and increase our prosperity???
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You shouldn't and it is unfortunate those provisions are in there. Apparently they were put there to satisfy some democratic senator. You have to take some good with some bad. This will bring in billions of dollars of trade between these countries and generate billions of dollars in new wealth and prodcutivity.
If we have to fund some stupid and counterproductive social program and pay some bribes to make it happen.. then lets do it and then in a few years slam the door shut on them.
I know that answer may not be very satisfying. It isn't to me either. But its politics. You sometimes have to give a little.
"This will bring in billions of dollars of trade" - No it won't! Tell me whom is going to be trading what to whom. What do they have that is so important that we will pay them billions of dollars for??? Isn't their currency worth about one twentieth of ours??? Tell me, really, isn't this simply about us buying their goods and not about them buying ours???
"You sometimes have to give a little." - Again, no I don't and that's especially so when it's going to hurt American citizens and lessen our sovereignty.
Honestly, this is really about Americans trying to dismantle our Declaration of Independence, limit our rights and take away or sovereignty. In the end it all comes down to us voting for the FTAA Constitution (or some derivative thereof) just like European countries voting for the EU Constitution!!!! Thank God some citizens of France came to their senses and voted it down!