"CAFTA expected to benefit consumers"

[AX10]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050730/ap_on_bi_ge/cafta_winners_losers

BULLSHIT! :grr:

[Triana]

1. If no US consumers have JOBS...

...except the very rich who either don't need them or the only persons who have decent ones (or jobs at all) what the fuck are we going to CONSUME?

Jobless people don't buy much.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. This is the part of the equaition they

don't get

[Gormy Cuss]

3. In related news pigs expected to fly

Quote (emphasis mine)

"U.S. shoppers should get a price break on shirts and pants made in Central America. American farmers and manufacturers are hoping to gain new sales in the region"

When hoping is the only thing our farmers and manufacturers get out of the deal, we've been screwed.

[Panda1]

7. I watched them all week

They screwed us at every turn. I sure hope that people who voted for Chimpy realize that it's the neocons taking all their jobs away and giving taxpayer dough to corporations and CEOs. When will it dawn on them? When they can't declare bankruptcy in October? When gas costs $5 a gallon? When they have to work two jobs to equal the pay of one that has been outsourced?
The GOP porked the people.
Buncha pigs.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901942.html?referrer=email&referrer=email>WaPo
On Capitol Hill, A Flurry of GOP Victories
Key Measures Advance After Long Delays

By Charles Babington and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 30, 2005; Page A01

After years of partisan impasses and legislative failures, Congress in a matter of hours yesterday passed or advanced three far-reaching bills that will allocate billions of dollars and set new policies for guns, roads and energy.

The measures sent to President Bush for his signature will grant $14.5 billion in tax breaks for energy-related matters and devote $286 billion to transportation programs, including 6,000 local projects, often called "pork barrel" spending. The Senate also passed a bill to protect firearms manufacturers and dealers from various lawsuits. The House is poised to pass it this fall.

Combined with the Central American Free Trade Agreement that Congress approved Thursday, the measures constitute significant victories for Bush and GOP congressional leaders, who have been frustrated by Democrats in some areas such as Social Security. As senators cast vote after vote in order to start their August recess, Bush applauded Congress, saying the energy bill "will help secure our energy future and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."
...
The House and Senate have engaged in pre-vacation voting marathons before, but few have involved so much major legislation that had been bottled up for so long.
...

[Erika]

4. Our standard of living will go straight down

but we'll be able to buy cheap products that will increase the wealth of other nations. Great plan for the redistribution of our wealth elsewhere.

[Tux]

5. At least

India could outsource jobs here since we'd be cheaper once we're a 3rd world nation.

[Mairead]

6. Not only bullshit, but the SAME bullshit that Clinton was peddling

with NAFTA!

And we all know how well THAT worked out for us.

[Old_Fart]

8. Which country are we speaking of?

;)