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**EU WANTS TO BID ON U.S. MAIL**-'Demands' Access to U.S. Municipal Water Markets & SBA Loans
The Washington Times ^ | April 26, 2002 | Carter Dougherty

Posted on 04/26/2002 2:59:32 PM PDT by codebreaker

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:53:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The European Union is demanding that foriegn companies be allowed to compete with the U.S. Postal Service as part of the World Trade Organization talks that began last year.

According to a draft copy of its demands obtained by the Washington Times, Europe also wants access to American markets for municipal water and waste services. It will also call for foriegn companies to be given access to Small Business Administration Loans.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chantemiller; europelist; euros; freetrade; globaloney; madness; nwo; wtc
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To: StormEye
I wonder when they will demand we pay our income taxes to them.

They'll demand that as soon as yesterday.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS PLOT GLOBAL TAXES ON AMERICANS

Bush-Bashing Left Pushes Global Taxes

Castro Endorses Global Taxes At UN Conference

U.N. Global Tax

61 posted on 04/26/2002 7:03:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: codebreaker, CincinnatiKid ,jd792 ,dixie sass,chesty puller,antivenom,muggs ,Grendelgrey ,GRRRRR
BUMPS
62 posted on 04/26/2002 7:43:50 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: cake_crumb
Personally, I'm getting a little sick and tired of EU "demands" upon the US.

Aren't you a part of the choir singing the joys of globalism?

63 posted on 04/26/2002 8:03:07 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye
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To: StormEye
I wonder when they will demand we pay our income taxes to them.

As soon as that pesky 2nd ammendment thingy is out of the way and the citizens are dis-armed.

64 posted on 04/26/2002 8:04:30 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: codebreaker
I'm feeling like a XENOPHOBE today. I say "HELL NO"! Our mail service is as dismal as ever, but it's our dismal mail service. Let us have our US Mail undelivered in peace.
65 posted on 04/26/2002 8:05:44 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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To: cake_crumb
Keep them out. Keep them out of everything. The so-called advantages of globalism have yet to be proven conclusively. How could the postal service be worse than it is now? Turn it over to French Socialists and see.
66 posted on 04/26/2002 8:11:06 PM PDT by henderson field
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To: VA Advogado
Thank God for the WTO. Thats the only fair body that will stop our protectionist measures that hurt our consumers.

Finally a voice of reason.

God Bless the multinational corporations that put profit before the well being of their employees.

Why should workers in the United States expect to support their families or maintain their standard of living? What a bunch of fools.

If workers in a Chinese prison can live on $10 a month we can learn to compete or die if we can't.

The joys of globalism.

67 posted on 04/26/2002 8:19:02 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye
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To: CreekerFreeper,VA Advogado
 I suggest you read it too and
understand that protectionism does work.

Work for who?  Unions?  Protectionism  keeps
prices artificially high,  retards innovation,
discourages productivity, and rewards corruption.

68 posted on 04/26/2002 8:20:31 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: codebreaker
codebreaker, you comment: "Unreal"

But wasn't the German takeover of Chrysler just as unreal; or the Japanese cars flooding our car market, or buying our steel companies, or Rockefeller Center. We will cave in on this too, for already most of the things we buy are from 'afar', and if you don't believe that, try getting tech support or the rebate check from the company from 'afar'.

We were in a global economy long before we worried about being in a global economy, and as more and more products and services we buy come from 'afar', so our sovereignty must dilute to accomodate reality.

The useful idiots who make the laws hastening our loss of sovereignty have yet to realize that their power too is being lost.

Which is cold comfort.

69 posted on 04/26/2002 8:34:16 PM PDT by Bounceback
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To: codebreaker;ALL
I can't believe how some people here are so eager to give up more of our security to outside influence.

Imagine the disruption if some Arab contractor just turned off your water, or refused to deliver the mail.

You people had better be very carefull what you wish for.

70 posted on 04/26/2002 8:55:25 PM PDT by wcbtinman
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To: NorseWood
Oh good! Let's send all our waste water to the EU!!

Have you considered the possibillity that what they really want is that strain of Anthrax. That way, they can give
it to the PLO. Part of the EU aid package.

71 posted on 04/26/2002 8:56:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Bumping and bookmarking.
72 posted on 04/26/2002 9:20:59 PM PDT by TruthNtegrity
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To: codebreaker
Let's allow reps EU run for Congress and the Senate as well. Can A Frenchman on the Hill be any worse than some of the vermin already masquerading as "American"?
73 posted on 04/26/2002 10:04:03 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: The Duke
Have them bid on our K-12 education system. I bet it is nowhere near the $350 billion a year or so we spend now and they could do a heck of a better job.

Which is the most inefficient country in Europe? I want them to put in a bid to run the IRS.

Bangladesh would make a fine contractor for various Welfare departments.

74 posted on 04/26/2002 10:11:59 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: codebreaker
Welcome to the New World Order....as predicted. You know the outcome. Are you still willing to sell out our sovereignty?
75 posted on 04/26/2002 10:16:51 PM PDT by brat
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To: Ditto
"But if they want to contract with a municipality to run some wastewater treatment plant, so what?"............Pandora's box?
76 posted on 04/26/2002 10:26:11 PM PDT by brat
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To: VA Advogado
Baloney! Americans had JOBS in those days, not peasant gleanings after China's done with us! Cash flowed all over the country, now it only flows for the richest.
77 posted on 04/26/2002 10:31:43 PM PDT by brat
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To: gcruse
Work for who? Unions? Protectionism keeps prices artificially high, retards innovation, discourages productivity, and rewards corruption.
What complete, utter, ignorant BS! What you call "protectionism" is what our founding fathers considered free trade. When the founding fathers spoke of free trade they were in fact referring to trade between the States not this globalist utopia that you dream of. Free trade ONLY works when dealing with states that are an similar or the same economies as in the States. Free trade does not and cannot work between nations of vastly different economies and it is precisely this type of globalist BS that causes Americans to be out of work. When you want to deal on globalist terms you are always going to lose jobs to nations with a lower economy and standard of living because Americans simply cannot compete against the wages that these people are capabe and willing to work for. If you are all in favor of bringing the standard of living in the US down to match that of Mexico and/or India then this globalist BS may be right up your alley but for most of us it's not. You and people like you need to open your eyes!

Keeping our jobs in America retards innovation??? Please sir do tell, what kind of innovation has come from Mexico or India or China or even France lately???
78 posted on 04/26/2002 10:55:37 PM PDT by RebelDawg
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To: RebelDawg
 Please sir do tell, what kind of innovation has come from Mexico or India or
China or even France lately???

Case in point.   Eastman Kodak had a virtual
monopoly over the US photo market for half
a century.  Protectionist trade barriers would
have done the same thing.  Among the results,
are the overseas development and now manufacture
of minilabs, 35mm cameras, and the high-speed
automatic printing equipment, all the high-speed
high-volume processing equipment for color film
and paper come from overseas.  The EK r&d
pipeline, too long and unresponsive from decades
of captive market in the US, could not respond
to innovations abroad and get decent equipment
on the shipping dock before it was obsolete.
That's just one example of what protectionism
does for you.

The lingering effect of the above, in addition,
is that EK has gone around and bought up virtually
all the photofinishing capacity in the US, because
they were losing paper and chemistry sales to
Fuji, Konica, and Agfa.  They have successfully
pushed Konica photofinishing out of the country,
and if it had not been for a multibillion dollar deal
between Walmart and Fuji, Fuji would be pushed
out, too, and your baby pix would be costing you a
lot more than they do now.

79 posted on 04/26/2002 11:04:22 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: codebreaker
If you can't beat them, buy them.
80 posted on 04/26/2002 11:06:49 PM PDT by let freedom sing
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