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In reply to the discussion: India to take US visas complaint to WTO [View all]Daniel537
(1,560 posts)5. Hmm, maybe i'm complety off base on this one
but last i checked we're still a sovereign nation and can set visa fees at whatever the hell we want, or even cancel the damn things if we so desire.
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your president and congress are selling out your sovereignty rights all over the place. What
msongs
Apr 2012
#9
Perhaps we should, but FDR believed that international organizations like the WTO (GATT), the UN
pampango
Apr 2012
#24
I did not say that "only Tea Parties have problems with today's globalized trading regime".
pampango
Apr 2012
#27
Of course, we will never know whether FDR would have supported the actual GATT or WTO, we only know
pampango
Apr 2012
#45
You are completely off base. You don't understand the nature of the WTO or other treaties
saras
Apr 2012
#10
I don't believe that free trade requires one country to give visas to the citizens of another
JDPriestly
Apr 2012
#11
Must not block access to service providers under WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
leveymg
Apr 2012
#19
Major restructuring needed. But, trade policy has a consensus of both Parties, the banks, MSM,
leveymg
Apr 2012
#37
You clearly haven't read the US Constitution. Treaties are "the supreme law of the land"
leveymg
Apr 2012
#22
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 says nothing about treaties being "the supreme law of the land"
Angleae
Apr 2012
#34
Folks just a reminder that we have many wonderful Indian Americans who post here at DU
LynneSin
Apr 2012
#17
Meanwhile...."India's strict visa regulations hamper entry of skilled foreigners"
OhioChick
Apr 2012
#28