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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

> At 1/22/2005, you wrote:
>
> > When will you people get over this blame it all on Clinton and spend 
> > some
> > time doing your homework!
>
>
> It is easier to watch Fox news and not think. 


Sorry but these are just lies.  For one thing, like all the 
corporate-controlled news, they'd never mention free trade in a negative 
light.

The free trade agreements signed by BC do far more than eliminate 
tariffs on imports.  They make it virtually impossible for our 
government to react when our industries are targeted by foreign 
interests.  It's perfectly possible to have no tariffs, without a NAFTA 
or a GATT.  But now corporations have been assured that there can 
_never_ be a tariff, so they're free to locate factories anywhere.

It surprises me that not a single court at any level has ever ruled that 
NAFTA and such are de facto treaties with foreign nations and require a 
2/3 majority.  They're obviously treaties.  Instead they were rushed 
through under BC's watch via the Fast Tract legislation, which limited 
the hours allowed for debate.  The light of day could not be allowed to 
shine, for very long anyway, on their deeds.  Clinton could have easily 
stopped NAFTA.  He is the one most to blame.

I'd even go farther than that.  Real starry-eyed libs like BC speak 
glowingly of equalizing the standard of living in the world.  Did he see 
this as a golden opportunity to weaken the nation he loathes?  It's 
really hard to see how we can win, with both conservatives and liberals 
giving big corporations everything they could ask for.

When I moved here in the mid-90s, I had no idea who would be elected in 
2000.  But all the real liberals (as opposed to check-seeking government 
employees and slugs paid by the DemNatCom to constantly attack the 
President) were saying back then that BC's actions would "hollow out" 
out our industrial base and wreck our country.  And so it's happened.  I 
moved here because I realized that there was no hope for the future.

Because your heads are pushed so far into the sand, next time you'll 
also nominate another check stamper who's perfectly happy to go along 
with whatever corporations have in store for us.

Bill