Bush Urges Congress to Approve Four Outstanding Trade Pacts

Online WSJ ^ | November 6, 2007 | Henry J. Pulizzi

[yorkie]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush Tuesday pressed Congress to approve outstanding trade agreements, saying "champions of false populism" in the Western Hemisphere would be emboldened if lawmakers fail to act on deals with Peru, Panama and Colombia.

In remarks at a White House Forum on International Trade and Investment, Mr. Bush said lawmakers should approve a trade pact with Peru quickly, then consider the agreements with Panama and Colombia as soon as possible. He said Congress also needs to approve an agreement with South Korea in the interest of U.S. companies and workers.

[ari-freedom]

free trade with columbia = less power for the commie farc druglords

[Shermy]

“champions of false populism”

Bush can invoke religion to get his America-busting bills through, and he can employ snooty elite-liberal epithets too! What a diverse guy...

[AU72]

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[padre35]

The Columbia pact makes sense, the rest of them...no thanks.

False populism or declining wages in the US/

U decide.

[1rudeboy]

Of course, in order to believe your comment one needs to believe that Hugo Chavez, or those two yobs in Bolivia and Ecuador, are not populists.

[1rudeboy]

Or, “false” populists, for that matter.

[mysterio]

Export jobs, import goods, borrow, borrow, borrow.

[Shermy]

My point is about the word “populist.”

It is a word, intoned generally as an epithet, to those who challenge bipartisan elite opinion.

[Shermy]

“Export jobs, import goods, borrow, borrow, borrow.”

And insource illegal labor!

[ARE SOLE]

Export jobs, import goods, borrow, borrow, borrow.

Export jobs, import people.

Regards

[mysterio]

And insource illegal labor!

Someone has to staff the Walmart so we can buy cheap Chinese stuff with our credit cards. Oh, and eat cheap food.

[padre35]

Free Trade goood...freee trade gooood repeat mantra, repeat mantra...

Columbia is having a tough time with NarcoCommies, they have made some serious efforts to fight the Chavez backed FARC, and even cracked down on the rightist paramilitaries that defend villages against FARC, Liberals should love letting people die while sticking by disarmament regimes....

[wolfcreek]

“free trade with columbia = less power for the commie farc druglords”

Please explain?

[ari-freedom]

it means that columbia will have an economy that’s not based on coca production. It also means that latin americans won’t be charmed by Hugo’s populist appeal if they are financially secure.

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