[DuckFan4ever]

Free trade is a good thing. Agreements are necessarily long. Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyone.

[SunnyD1182]

"Free trade is a good thing. Agreements are necessarily long. Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyone."

Yeah, kind of like the "worker rights enforcement" that NAFTA provided for, say, Mexico, or what free trade provides for sweatshops in Asia. Workers rights, indeed!

[hedgetrimmer]

Worker rights enforcement in Central America is good for everyoneM

CAFTA establishes the United Nations ILO to be the arbiter of all labor issues in CAFTA countries. Since the US will be a CAFTA country if this treaty is approved, then the ILO becomes the source of labor law in this country. If you are a patriotic American and believe that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, then you cannot accept this treaty as law, and it must not be passed.

Even if you aren't a patriotic American, but a person of high ethical standards, you cannot allow the United Nations any more power, especially in our hemisphere. The United Nations is an incredibly corrupt organization, whose ministers come from socialist, communist and totalitarian dicatorship countries. If America is to remain a free country, our leadership cannot sell us out wholesale to the United Nations as it will do in this treaty and as it has done in past treaties.

CAFTA must be stopped.