[hedgetrimmer]

Congressional testimony on CAFTA

[spyone]

If NAFTA didn't put US sovereignty under attack, certainly CAFTA doesn't.

[SC33]

www.SecureAmericasBorders.com

[upchuck]

Who's testimony was this? It's excellent!

[Man50D]

What the article doesn't say is that President Bush, for some unknown reason, is pushing for CAFTA. Consequently he is willing to leave the Mexican border wide open to illegal immigrants, terrorists and refer to the good people of the Minuteman project vigilantes in order to appease his CAFTA cronies.

[upchuck]

CAFTA ping.

[planekT]

ping

[RoyalsFan]

No more expensive trade!

[Surtur]

Defeat CAFTA, withdraw from NAFTA, and make America a sovereign nation again. Also, get the UN out of the US, and the US out of the UN, and withdraw from all multi-party world bodies like the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary fund. Then, renegotiate all existing trade agreements in a bilateral fashion with the USA's interests paramount. Anything else is a failure of our elected representatives to uphold their obligations to America's citizens.

[Dat Mon]

Thanks for the ping.

Proponents of CAFTA like to label opponents as paranoid "Conspiracy Theory" aficionados in search of the latest tin foil craze.

And yet...I have yet to see anyone go logically and systematically through an article such as this one, and refute the accusations one by one...USING THE ACTUAL LANGUAGE OF THE AGREEMENT as reference material.

I know before I sign a contract...I go through ALL the language in intimate detail...as well as my legal representative of course.

WORDS MEAN SOMETHING IN A CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT.

[upchuck]

Specifically, CAFTA brazenly requires the executive branch of the United States Government, as well as this Congress, our State Governors, State legislators, and even local authorities to conform all existing and future Federal, State, and local laws to a new set of international statutes and standards that go beyond trade matters.

Rep. Otter nails it right here. THIS is the reason President Bush is pushing this so hard. Globalization rules!

What better way to push the globalization agenda than through a supposedly innocent trade agreement.

This represents a chance for this country to take a giant step backwards. We ain't gonna be happy living under these new rules. This must be stopped.

[madfly]

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