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I think you miss the point regarding the steel tariff. Bush tucked tail and removed the tariff because an outside entity that was in the wrong told him to. I didn't like the steel tariff, what I liked less was getting marching orders in regards sovereign matters from a board of appointed nerds. Who are they? Who picks them? And we are about to increase their power big time with the FTAA?

Not every American is college caliber, that's not a slam just a fact. The ones that are going to be, and are being hurt by Free Trade are the ones that can least afford it. High School drop outs and those who, for economic or personal reasons, cannot improve their economic status.

The idea put to us by our politicians was for us to lift the boats of the third world, they didn't mention that it meant sinking ours. When a politician tells you that America's future lies in "small business" and every idiot nods in agreement, knowing full well that 90% of small business's go belly up in under five years, we are in trouble.

If our future lies in small business we are sunk friend. The only available industry openings talked about by political talking heads is in the medical field as teckies. How long will it take before that market is flooded?

Aside from all of the above, what we are talking about here is another form of invasion. An invasion that leads to the loss of sovereignty and self determination that our Founding Father's warned us about. Men that were much smarter than you or I warned that we could lose our nation by becoming involved in entangling treaties. I'm here to tell you we are tangled already with NAFTA and GATT, the FTAA is the cherry on the nation killing sundae.

For the sake of debate on free trade issues I'd like to pose a question. All the nations involved in the FTAA can petition their citizens to join the United States of America. Our Constitution stays intact, trade barriers would be removed, and the sovereignty of our nation cannot be questioned. Is this not an option to free trade?