[traviskicks]

when i wrote that comment I had no idea where you even stood on the issue of: free trade vs expanding government to block the actions of private citizens and porkbarrel it.

[Dat Mon]

YOU SAID..."free trade vs expanding government to block the actions of private citizens and porkbarrel it."

Are you saying that CAFTA is just a bunch of private citizens free tradin' with other private citizens?

Ive read through some of the documentation on this...I see mention of government and international government agencies involving in setting up this agreement...and enforcing it. After all...it is being voted on in GOVERNMENT... as we speak.

This IS THE GOVERNMENT....not only in the US but in all of those little countries where the government has alot more control over private citizens than it has in the US.

BTW... as far as your comment on protecting American jobs...you will be pleased to learn that in all the documentation I read...no mention of protection of American jobs was evident.

HOWEVER... that was NOT the case for all of those poor people over on the other side of the fence in Central America. I read page after page of special exemptions and considerations given to protect the jobs and the 'system' of those folks in those 'other' countries.

So much for philosophy....lets talk reality.