[Vision2020] When Will "FREE" TRADERS be held accountable?

[Tim Lohrmann]

Tom, 
   YES, daddy Bush and Ronnie and their neocon brain
trust were the "intellectual"(I use the term
advisedly)fathers of NAFTA.
   However, one of the big reasons Clinton got the
support of his Wall Street backers, such as his Sec.
of the Treasury who was the head of Goldman Sachs, was
because they correctly believed he'd be able to
marshall the votes in Congress to actually get the
scheme passed.
   He fought mightily and promised every porkbarrel
project he could to get the required NAFTA votes. And
despite the fact that every poll imaginable showed
that the American people opposed it by large margins,
he was successful in getting enough Demos. to peel off
and vote YES for NAFTA. 
  I'll never forget the debate between Perot and
Algore on Larry King's show. Algore incorrectly stated
that the SMOOT/HAWLEY protectionist tariff legislation
brought on the great depression. He neglected to
mention that SMOOT/HAWLEY was passed in 1930. A full
year after the Wall Street crash and many years after
the agricultural sector was already in full blown
depression. Remember the dustbowl years of the 20's
and the Okies, Arkies, and etc.?
Unfortunately Perot was either uninformed or too tired
from a day of anti-NAFTA lobbying to call Al on it.
That was truly a defining moment in the debate.
   TL

--- Thomas Hansen <tomh@FNA.fsn.uidaho.edu> wrote:
> Isn't the North American Free Trade Agreement
> (NAFTA) synonymous with
> President George W. Bush Sr.?
> 
> I am certainly happy to see that the Bush family is
> taking care of
> everything.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Courtney [mailto:dale@courtneys.us]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:39 PM
> To: Vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] When Will "FREE" TRADERS
> be held accountable?
> 
> 
> Tim wrote: 
> 
> >    When will the neo-cons and so-called Democrat
> > Leadership Council types be held accountable for
> the
> > colossal failure of what they call FREE TRADE?
> >   
> >     They(the leaders of the 2 major parties) keep
> up
> > the big lie that this exportation of jobs is good
> for
> > our economy. It seems to be like a religion for
> > everyone that is given any serious coverage by the
> > mainstream press.
> 
> Tim, it's time to wake-up and smell the coffee. We
> *are* in a global economy
> whether we like it or not. It's not that these
> councils have *created* a
> global economy. 
> 
> See Alvin Toffler's "The Third Wave" -- we've moved
> on from the old
> industrialized period into something new (whatever
> you want to call it). 
> 
> Unless you want to turn off the internet, you cannot
> keep outsourceable
> labor from shifting from expensive areas (e.g., the
> USA) to lesser expensive
> areas (e.g., India, Pakistan). In one respect, we've
> priced ourselves out of
> the general labor pool -- at least labor that can be
> outsourced via the web
> (e.g., tech jobs). 
> 
> Best,
> Dale Courtney
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
>
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