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Elwood P Dowd

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Tue Apr-14-09 01:41 PM
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8. NAFTA, CAFTA, and all these other so called free trade deals are not

David Ricardo's free trade. They're outsourcing/investment scams. It's not free trade when we give trading partners 15 years to lower their tariffs and we lower ours almost immediately. It's not free trade when our trading partners put a 20-30 percent VAT on our goods, yet we have zero VAT on their goods. It's not free trade to move labor/capital out of the US just so greedy CEOs and investors can make a fortune by firing $20.00 an hour American workers and paying Asian workers 20 cents an hour, along with avoiding consumer safety and environmental laws.

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