For the reader who is not aware of the pending CAFTA issue in the House of Representatives, know that it runs 1000 pages long and that the U.S. Senate approved it in June. It now goes to the House, and the White House is pushing for a quick vote…before many Representatives figure out what it really is.
Like NAFTA?....you will love CAFTA.
From William Norman Grigg at The New American magazine:
“Pro-CAFTA Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) describes the region as ‘a potentially significant trading bloc with the United States.’ However, the aggregate economy of the six CAFTA nations is minuscule. ‘Add up the six CAFTA economies and you get a market the size of New Haven, Connecticut,’ points out trade analyst Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business and Industry Council.”
Over the 4th of July weekend, I spoke to two Georgia Congressman's senior aides.
I asked what their guy's position on CAFTA was. At a Cobb County, Georgia GOP [ Note from D.A. - I am not a member of any political party] BBQ, one replied:
"You are the second person to ask me that... what is CAFTA?”
On the phone the next day, in answer to the same question, another aide said honestly:
"He doesn't have one yet."
The MSM has done a good job of burying the issue, even from some of the people who will have the privilege of voting on the NAFTA extension.
If passed, the loud sucking noise you will hear is more of our national sovereignty whooshing away - along with your tax money.
In Europe recently, even the French were allowed to vote [No!] on giving up their own sovereignty.
If passed, the loud pounding noise you will hear is the stampede of increased illegal immigration from Central America.
So, more on CAFTA from Grigg to share with your own House Representative:
Why CAFTA Must Be Defeated:
* Taken together, the six CAFTA nations have a minuscule consumer economy — but represent a huge pool of low-wage labor. Thus the only export encouraged by CAFTA would be U.S. manufacturing jobs.
* CAFTA is a critical steppingstone toward creation of a 34-nation Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an embryonic regional government modeled after the socialistic European Union.
* Under CAFTA, barriers to agricultural imports from our "trading partners" would be removed immediately, while barriers to U.S. exports wouldn't be lifted for anywhere from 10-20 years — thereby crippling U.S. agricultural producers. And this precedent would almost certainly be followed in the FTAA.
* Promoters of CAFTA clearly perceive the pact to be a form of foreign aid to "emerging democracies" in Central America — tacitly recognizing that it wouldn't result in genuine free trade, but rather a huge transfer of wealth from the U.S. to the region.
And something from a personal hero, Representative Charlie Norwood, a Congressman [R. Ga. 9th] who does have a position.
Time is short.
Congressional addresses here:
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
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D.A. King is a self described “immigration crime fighter” and founder of The American Resistance Foundation, www.THEAMERICANRESISTANCE.com, a Georgia based national non-profit coalition of citizens that actively opposes illegal immigration. He also writes in the Marietta [Georgia] Daily Journal and on www.VDARE.com. E-mail him: dak@THEAMERICANRESISTANCE.com
