[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

All, Is this what we want for the future of this country and YOUR descendents?? Imagine WHEN the President and his "advisers" change into your worst nightmare and CONTROL your children's future. Or, just some wimp turning CONTROL over to a "world council". IMHO, This is NOT good. Act according to your own conscience. Peace and love, George.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Not so fast. In a government that is run by consent, there is something fundamentally unsound about the idea of "fast track" legislation. In fact, the bill's summary promises, as to fast track, that its central purpose is to "minimize debate."

The question is what good is consent, if debate is minimized? Or what good is consent, if consent becomes uninformed, left out in the dark, rushed, and therefore consigned to trusting in a president, his privy council and international corporations with a vested interest in using government to promote themselves to the exclusion of the liberty of the people?

clause after clause mandates the necessity of insuring that a wide scope of U.S. laws – i.e., environmental law, labor law, minimum wage law, intellectual property law, welfare law – are brought into compliance with the laws of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the U.N.'s International Labor Organization, the FTAA and other international protocols, and to insure that the United States will be subject to international sanctions whenever we fail to comply.

In summary, what does this mean? Front one – fast track – minimizes consent by minimizing debate. Front two, FTAA, marginalizes, perhaps eliminates, consent by making U.S. law subject to international law, that is, subject to lawmakers from communist, socialist, fascist and Islamic fundamentalist nations that hate us.
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Guys, IS this what we really want?? Peace and love, George.

[steve50]

Good read George. It would be foolish in the extreme to base the nations trade policy on the decisions of one man. Open debate is the basis of any free society.

[Travis McGee]

Anti Globalist Bump.

[CIBvet]

I've often wondered why if this Free Trade/GloBaloney were such a good idea for the American citizen, why we wouldn't place the documents (NAFTA/GATT/WTO et al.) in our Public Libraries for a specified period, say 6 mos, to insure ample time for citizen access and debate.

The only good explanation I could come up with was that David (ol Mr. GloBaloney-who-would-be-King hisownself) Rockefeller and his crony-lackeys couldn't jam their economic schemes down our throats as easily ... you know before the citizenry woke up.

And you know how scoundrels HATE honest sunshine.

[Carry_Okie]

I have little doubt that one of the first steps subsequent to FTAA will be to rescind the embargo against Cuba. A globalist isn't a globalist unless he is propping up communist regimes.

[DoughtyOne]

Oh George, can't you just be a good little world citizen? Puke...

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[EBUCK]

I don't understand why we need "free trade" agreements in the first place. If it were really free trade would there need to be agreements? NO.

Furthermore, why in the hell is the president even involved with trade?

I agree with you. There is no need for the pres to have even more PULL (thanks to you Mrs. Rand). In fact he shouldn't have any pull whatsoever in business matters. Stands to reason that we sure as he!! shouldn't give him more.

EBUCK