Oh No, CAFTA passed, what are we going to do?
From the ""I-am-for-free-commerce-with-all-nations; political-connection-with-none; and-little-or-no-diplomatic-establishment"" Department
The end of the world is nigh, or at least that was what CAFTA was trumping up.
But today Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act passed the House.
Here is the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com take:
I’m a fan of NAFTA (A Bill Clinton initative)
I’m also a fan of CAFTA
Why?
Trade is good. Why? Trade creates more money, more opportunity, better products, more affordable products, and more competition.
And the more trade you have, the stronger you are.
AND, here is the tacit advantage, the more trade you create in oppressive areas of the world, the less oppressive they become.
Its win win!
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LAFTA at CAFTA
Glad to see a free-trader that has a sense of humor.
Comment by Insider — July 28, 2005 @ 7:04:34 PM
Where there’s smoke … there’s a Republican burning documents…
CHIMPEACHMENT 2006
Comment by [edited for content -ed.] — July 28, 2005 @ 9:21:35 PM
Dear [edited...
Where there are blind accusations about nothing,
there is a screaming angry-left-moonbat.
Go read the Daily Kos; and while you are at it read the disclaimer below.
(and no marketing please, your website was removed)
[I'll put it back for a not-so-small fee]
And keep using that AOL account… it fits.
But seriously, your observation makes a lot of sense. NOW WE KNOW why Sandy Berger was stuffing Top Secret documents down his pants, he was trying to extinguish the flames. (How brave of him.)
Comment by Jeremy — July 28, 2005 @ 9:38:38 PM
Well that was a pathetic attempt at trolling. I am glad CAFTA passed. Democrats should never have opposed CAFTA if they are truly about helping people as they claim to be.
Comment by Tawnie — July 29, 2005 @ 8:00:28 AM
“Who will turn the lights off? El Salvador’s youth exodus.”
CAFTA Casualties: Free trade deals like CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) have had a devastating impact on El Salvador’s small farmers and have helped push 100,000 Salvadorans per year to immigrate to the United States.Photo by Judy Walgren, FAACA.NET
USULUTÃN, El Salvador””El Salvador is a poor country whose major export is people. From recently living there, I’ve seen firsthand what’s driving people north “” and why conventional political solutions aren’t going to deter desperate Salvadorans and others like them from coming to the United States. Largely missing from this year’s presidential campaign is any serious reappraisal of our foreign, military, and trade policies that have forced millions of Latin Americans to uproot themselves and seek opportunities for a better life far from home.
On the presidential campaign trail earlier this year, free trade critics failed to link corporate globalization, trade deregulation and the forced relocation of people throughout the hemisphere. While courting blue-collar workers in farm states and the Rust Belt in the United States, former Democratic senator John Edwards frequently denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) “” and its new Central American counterpart, CAFTA “” as “trade laws that send American jobs overseas.”
To view the rest of this article, see http://www.indypendent.org/2008/07/20/who-will-turn-off-the-lights/
Comment by anonymous — August 4, 2008 @ 12:50:47 PM