Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of documents and interviews with officials in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, as well the author's experience as an aide to Senator Bill Bradley during negotiations, Interpreting NAFTA is a history of the agreement's development, from opening talks to final passage. Frederick W. Mayer combines recent work in international relations, comparative politics, interest groups, and public opinion to develop a broad theoretical framework that crosses between international relations and domestic politics. Mayer demonstrates that to understand NAFTA, one must view it as simultaneously a matter of political interests, institutions, and ideas.
Customer Reviews:
A Great Book on a Dry Topic.......2002-01-13
A great presentation of what I expected to be an unexciting topic. Examines the workings of the political system in a highly readable way. I was not only well-informed after I read the book, but entertained as well!
Excellent Theoretical Framework.......2001-12-08
This is excellent material if you are conducting any kind of serious research on NAFTA and its negotiations' development and outcome. It provides with a huge theoretical framework, every step of the process. If your line of work is game theory, this book will really help you (or at least it worked wonders for me). This is mandatory reference material for anyone interested in studying NAFTA.
Mayer rivals Grisham. I couldn't put it down!.......1998-11-21
Mayer rivals Grisham. He enfolds the strategy of NAFTA like a good murder-mystery. More proof that reality is more entertaining than fiction. It's a thriller, a nail-biter. I couldn't put it down!
Book Description
This volume covers many of the political, social, and nontrade changes that have accompanied NAFTA over the past 10 years; the authors project what to expect in the next 10 in such areas as labor, education, business, and security.NAFTA has not cured all internal ills in the three countries concerned, but they are now discussed and have become more amenable to satisfactory compromise.
Customer Reviews:
Ah! "Impact" as a verb............2007-08-15
Shouldn't the title be "NAFTA'S Effect On North America"? Impact is a poor choice to replace "effect", "affect", or "influence". It's the "ESPN'ing" of the English language.
Book Description
In the New York Times bestseller The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, Jerome Corsi proves that the benignly-named "Security and Prosperity Partnership," created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led Europe to form the EU. According to Corsi, the elites in Europe who wanted to create a European nation knew that "it would be necessary to conceal from the peoples of Europe just what was being done in their name until the process was so far advanced that it had become irreversible." Could the same thing be happening here? Is American sovereignty doomed?
Using dozens of documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act and his trademark hard-hitting interviews, Jerome Corsi sets out a chilling view of America's possible "harmonized" future -- one being created covertly, without voter input or Congressional oversight. Could our government's unfathomable position on illegal immigration be tied to the prospect of an integrated North American Union?
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A Must-read for every American!.......2007-10-18
Jerome Corsi is so very thorough and he keeps the reader on track and interested. He is one of the best nonfiction authors out there today. This book contains facts that most Americans don't even know. Every person in America should read this book and start becoming aware of what is going on.
Carol Ann Wilson
Houston TX
Get your head out of the sand. Oh need help. Get this book........2007-10-14
To read this book is the best way to pull your head out of the sand. But the sand in your eyes let your tears (the truth) wash the sand a way. Let the truth open your eyes and look! See our Jobs leaving. See our way of life slipping away. Look at your personal God given Rights being traded for someones idea of 'personal safety'. And remember the warnings of the Founding Fathers. Remember the highest price paid by the Americans before all of us. We were handed he foundation for a Nation never seen before. A government for and by the people. Things have taken a direction we have been warned to be weary of, Dr Corsi has writhed a very clear and well noted book to enlighten each of us to what is going on. And not covered by the news.
Required Reading.......2007-10-09
Since the process described in the book is not apparant to the public, America should WAKE UP and read this book to find out how America is being STOLEN from its citizens.
Bob Sprinkle
Melbourne, Florida
The integrity of a government meant to be of, by, and for its own people........2007-10-07
Written by the co-author of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry", The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada is a strident denouncement of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, to the extent of calling it a "shadow government". Ultimately, The Late Great USA decries the SPP and President Bush's plan for amnesty among illegal immigrants, alleging that they share the ultimate goal of ending America as we know it, to be replaced by a European Union-like coup d'etat forced on American citizens without their knowledge or consent. From accusing the state of Texas of seizing millions of acres of private land so that foreign investors can create a NAFTA "superhighway", to China's proxies in Mexico with the power to undercut America economically, to efforts among globalist business leaders and academics to immerse the United States into a regional government, and much more. Though harsh and strident in its take on a hot-button issue, The Late Great USA embodies genuine concerns that need to be addressed immediately pertaining to the integrity of a government meant to be of, by, and for its own people.
EVERY AMAERICAN MUST READ THIS BOOK.......2007-10-05
BUY IT! or watch our country be plunged into a third world consumer state to drive the global economy A WELL INFORMED PUBLIC IS ALL THAT CAN STOP THEM
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Is the current model for economic globalization good for the poor or the environment? Are there alternatives? Amid rising worldwide protests that corporate elites wield too much influence over global economic governance, this book on Mexico' s experience under the North American Free Trade Agreement offers insights into both questions.
With a focus on labor, agricultural, and environmental issues, Confronting Globalization tells globalization's untold stories: its social and environmental costs and the grassroots search for alternative paths. Indigenous coffee farmers fight for a place in the global market. Sweatshop workers demand safe working conditions and basic labor rights. Corn farmers organize to prevent the flood of imported grain from driving them off the land. The editors carefully set the context and clearly draw the rich lessons from these compelling stories, offering a rare grounding in how trade policies affect vulnerable communities and the environment, and what those communities are doing to defend themselves and promote their own homegrown alternatives.
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Globalization as seen from the bottom in Mexico.......2003-10-08
A Review:
Confronting Globalization:
Economic integration and popular resistance in Mexico
Wise, Timothy A., Salazar, Hilda, Carlsen, Laura eds., 248 pages (paper),
Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT 2003
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Globalization and trade policies such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have had disastrous effects on Mexican communities Confronting Globalization is about what some of these communities are doing at the grass-roots political level to defend themselves. The setting is contemporary Mexico. This book provokes discussion of the lessons of the social and environmental costs of the NAFTA. The editors have gathered the real stories of real communities and the community members organized to address conflicts. The book ends with thoughtful guidance for us to ponder as corporations and governments sally along with new hemispheric-wide economic agreements. This kind of guidance is very rare these days as most of us hunt for workable paradigms to guide social justice actions in the future.
The basic premise of the book is that increased trade and investment result from reduced barriers, but these should not be an end in themselves. National governments should go further than global economic integration and judiciously use the fruits of free trade as a means toward an end of improving their own society, environment, and economies. This book not only shows how communities and local democracy have been weakened by globalization, but lessons are examined and recommendations are offered as important considerations for future agreements. The promise that globalization can strengthen us all has proved hollow, and here we see how and why it has failed - and we can see what must be different in our immediate tomorrows.
The editors use nine case studies of actual communities that have been impacted by neo-liberal trade policies. The setting of this book is stories of how these communities are defending themselves from the onslaught of corporate power and stories of how laws have weakened the national ability to protect the people of a country. Locally-based alternative policies can be viable alternatives but they must be protected and nurtured by national and international agreements.
With a focus on environmental, labor, and agricultural issues the book documents how the past ten years of free trade have resulted in an exclusive focus on corporate profits. This book shows how, with detailed citations, these agreements result in a weakening of democratic government, deterioration of the environment, and declining labor conditions. For example, the authors document how rural Mexico, heavily dependent on small-scale agriculture, is in crisis. Grain imports from the United States and reduced supports to small farmers have resulted in four-fifths of the rural Mexican population living in poverty, and half of those people live in extreme poverty. Small farmers just can't compete on such unequal terms. Is this free trade? Who benefits? Who loses?
These authors do an excellent job of supporting their thesis with facts that are annotated. For example, the editors of Confronting Globalization document how Mexican per capita growth was 3.4% from 1960 to 1980. Since 1985 Mexican per capita real growth has been just 1%. Job creation in Mexico does not nearly keep up with the increase of the population. New workers are entering the economy faster than jobs are being created. Manufacturing has seen a net loss of jobs since NAFTA took effect. NAFTA critics predicted American jobs would migrate to Mexico. Some did. But the jobs created in Mexico are not good jobs - manufacturing wages are down 12% under NAFTA, and about 60% of the Mexican workers do not receive any of the benefits legally mandated by their government.
How can this increasing impoverishment of our neighbor be good for the United States? Who gains from international trade agreements and who are the real losers? Read this book and you will come away with a solid grounding in the basic lessons of free trade. Talk of globalization usually means talk of economic conditions, but costs to the environment, agriculture, and worker well-being are ignored. States must include these sectors when considering future agreements such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
The student of global trade agreements will be familiar with challenges of national pressures as the regions struggle to integrate. There are many articles and books about trade agreements of the 20th and 21st Centuries but documentation of how these changes have impacted contemporary Mexican civil society, and in turn our society, are not common. Confronting Globalization is important because these stories detail how communities have responded at the grassroots level with a wide diversity of social responses. It should be required reading for the university-level scholar, the politicians who create trade policy, and social activists who seek to ameliorate the harm caused by globalization. The clearly delineated recommendations are essential considerations for future action.
2003-08-15
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Pondering labor, agricultural, & environmental issues.......2003-09-18
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar and Laura Carlsen, Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration And Popular Resistance In Mexico presents informed and informative essays from a variety of expert contributors pondering diverse labor, agricultural, and environmental issues within the context of contemporary globalization. Looking at the social and environmental costs that globalization extracts upon Mexico's land and people; exploring grassroots searches for alternate paths; and ranging from sweatshop workers' struggles for basic labor rights to the efforts of corn farmers to keep the influx imported grain from forcing them off their land, Confronting Globalization is very highly recommended reading for students of international economics, social activists, and governmental trade policy makers.
Customer Reviews:
Another winner from Food First Books.......2004-05-13
"Shafted" is an easy-to-read and powerful window into the human side of the effects of free trade. It's one thing to read statistics and another to hear stories directly from those affected. The book is based on a congressional briefing in Washington D.C. where a delegation of America's working poor was able to tell members of Congress and the American public how free trade has impacted their lives. "Shafted" is separated into four parts: Farmers, Workers, Farmworkers, and Analysts. What is great about the book is that it includes stories and analyses from people of different backgrounds, including racial, ethnic, and work backgrounds. I especially liked the contributions in the Analysts section (the analysts coming from the Public Citizen organization, Cornell University, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and California Senate Select Committee on International Trade). I found them accessible and to the point, lacking loads of economic and political jargon. Throughout the book you'll also find short excerpts from important historic documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil Political Rights, American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
This is an important book that addresses a growing menace in our society and in the international arena. It does not provide a suggested plan of action, however it does include resources to further educate yourself and to get involved.
"Shafted" is a quick and powerful read that'll open your eyes to another side of America that we hardly get the chance to hear from. And it shows how people are bravely standing up for what they believe it. An invaluable book!
A congressional hearing as if we had a democracy.......2004-02-10
This may be the best introduction available both to the problems of "free trade" and to what a congressional hearing might look like if Congress were focused on the needs of people rather than the needs of campaign contributors.
A must read on free trade.......2003-12-02
An invaluable glimpse into the lives of the people affected by "free trade." Concise and eloquent: the perfect book to hand to someone who believes that more trade is necessarily better trade.
Riveting stories about globalization from below!.......2003-11-17
Shafted is a powerful and punchy read! I recommend this book to all those concerned about the future of our economy and the effects of free trade on working people in America. The testimonies reveal the devastating effects of free trade on workers, family farmers and farmworkers. These testimonies also reveal, however, that people refuse to sit back and allow biased economic policies to destroy their livelihoods and their families. By fighting to expose the myth of "free trade," the working people in Shafted are demanding a shift in the values of America - from the unjust and exploitative values of corporate America to fundamental values of the global community - human rights, justice and dignity of people everywhere.
Required reading for the rich who run the USA.......2003-11-04
I've always been a domestic policy wonk, and for a long time kept my head buried in the international sand. This book made me wake up and realize that the line between domestic and international is no more, and that it's time to get serious about a cohesive, solid global movement to protect the environment, workers, and basic human dignity. Not a movement based on ignorance, slogans, and bandanaded rebels, but one based on solid information and real-world relevance. Shafted could prove to be a huge step in that kind of a movement. I hope so.
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- Too Much Attitude, Too Little Analysis
- Selling of America
- The silent majority
- A Good History of NAFTA
- A Good Read!
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The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy
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Book Description
The Selling of "Free Trade" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular opposition. John R. MacArthur chronicles the brutal and expensive campaign in 1993 that led to passage of the poorly understood, highly controversial law creating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Customer Reviews:
Too Much Attitude, Too Little Analysis.......2006-10-27
This book is an interesting if super-polemical account of the political maneuvering and PR spin that surrounded passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. As MacArthur notes, NAFTA was not about trade, but about making Mexico safe for U.S. investors seeking cheap labor. The central irony of his heavily ironic book -- sarcasm oozes from almost every page -- is that a Democratic administration ended up in alliance with Republicans and business interests to push a trade deal opposed by labor unions, a core Democratic constituency.
MacArthur interviewed a lot of key NAFTA players, and his book is quite good on Washington infighting. On trade and economics, however, it is terrible. It does no economic analysis, it doesn't discuss the details of NAFTA (instead, MacArthur lazily refers the reader to "specialist literature"), and it caricatures pro-free trade economists as dupes or sellouts. It is also riddled with errors -- anyone who thinks that the 301 law was designed to address dumping in domestic markets has no business writing a book on trade agreements.
Bottomline: the book is nasty and fun but not recommended for anyone who wants to do serious research on NAFTA.
Selling of America.......2006-06-29
NAFTA became a blue-print for exporting jobs all over the world. It allows corrupt governments everywhere to exploit the poor for the benefit of the world trade organization (WTO) and the wealthy of these countries.
This book is an example of excellent reporting. MacArthur takes a small subject--the fate of the Swingline staple factory in New York and shows you how a company cut its labor costs by moving to a bordertown in Mexico. This factory once was the first job off the boat for thousands of immigrants. Now, it is the modern equivalence of the workhouse in places like Mexico. There a corrupt government threw its peasants off their land offering them a brutal choice: be exploited by corporations in Mexico or take a chance at a new life in America.
What shocked me was how in such a world as we are creating, friends come in strange packages while your enemies come at you with warm hands and friendly smiles. Bill Clinton, to the delight of conservatives, pushed NAFTA through Congress. The opposition: a lonely, odd, short guy from, of all places, Texas, by the name of Ross Perot. "Can you hear that sucking sound," was his cry throughout his tour of America against NAFTA. We did not listen. Instead, we bought Bill Clinton and Gore, who was the front man for this PR campaign, based on their supposed liberal values. We got took.
Read this book and find out how. I took off a few points because the flow dragged a little but otherwise, a great book --- MacArthur made the Conservative hit list.
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The silent majority.......2004-10-03
This book had no recommendations, no dust jacket, and no introduction to the qualifications of the author. The only reason I picked it up out of the library was because I am currenty a student of International Business and Global Economics.Our group assigment is to pursue a debate upon free trade in general, for the opposition.
For it's treatment of trade theory, especially Smith and Ricardo,I thought MacArthur picked up a salient point...why in the modern world of technology and global trade are thinking individuals (for example...academics?) silently allowing a group of self-interested multi-national corporations to devour and destroy what took western societies, not just capitalists, hundreds of years to attain?
Namely, a worker-protected environment, minimum wage laws, and government regulations to prevent exploitation of labour? Vanishing due to greed. The same old greed that could be scientifically theorized upon more than two hundred years
ago, during the ages of mercantilism and comparative advantage.
Why no new theories on how to maintain worker rights?
MacArthur identifies the players in American politics, the benefits assumed and trade among all dealers in the free trade debate, and spends as much time as is necessary to capture the attention of the reader. Canada and Mexico are mere pawns here in a game the Americans play much better than many nations.
Thus clear causes and effects of the support of free trade in these other nations should be reviewed in numerous other texts.
The points he picks up the best include the clauses in chapter eleven preventing privatisation of Mexican-held American assets, the collusion of the mass media, the deification of Salinas, etc.
The question he raises with the greatest irony, "How could such a trade policy be permitted without minimum standards of environmental and labour regulations in the developing
country, as was required in the EU of Portugal and Greece?"
Finally, the idea should be about creating wider consumer markets of products, which due to this trade deal, almost certainly will never happen in Mexico. The experts still
remain silent about the after-effects, research classified
into documents that claim the success of the project will
take fifteen to twenty years to adequately assess...waiting
for those accountable to pass away? Not a great sucking sound, but a slow, persistent dripping sound.
Now I know why one of my co-workers in the desert was from Georgetown University. Idealism dies pretty fast in
MacArthur's lens upon Free Trade. An enlightening read.
A Good History of NAFTA.......2002-01-26
Chapter One tells of the history of the Swingline stapler business from 1920s to 1997. This still profitable business was shut down when production was moved to Mexico. Computers resulted in a great increase in the use of cut papers, and this needed more staples to fasten them together.
Chapter Two quotes the David Ricardo statement of "comparative advantage" (p.71). Isn't this just a simple argument created to support a point of view, and not reality? It doesn't address shipping costs, or other facts. Hardware and other goods CAN be manufactured in America and Poland, or France and Portugal. This example masks the political decisions hidden in his argument. Page 75 quotes Ricardo again, and notes it was false when he wrote it; another created argument. Pages 78-79 repeat the praises for President Salinas, then. He unilaterally lowered Mexican tariffs to allow US exports to gain market share; the book says this wrecked the Mexican economy, and Salinas fled the country to avoid arrest for murder and money laundering! The net effect was to loot and impoverish the country.
Page 95 speaks of the Republicans and Democrats as if they were real things, and not just names for a collection of special interests that create oratory to advance their aims. Page 97 discusses the rational of lowered tariffs: to fight "communism" by importing foreign goods! The fact that those who profited by financing and merchandising these imports also influenced government policy is just another coincidence. Pages 99-125 tell of the intrigue behind the passing of NAFTA (like other special interest legislation). These pages are one of the most important part of the book!
Chapter Three investigates the details of the NAFTA agreement. It starts with the candidature of William Clinton, a "master of two-dimensional obfuscation" ("like Woodrow Wilson") on p.143. Clinton's attraction was that, however flawed, he could win and the politicians preferred him over a loser, however pure. Clinton supported NAFTA because that was where the big money was (p.150). Also, it would not give Bush an issue when Clinton was ahead in the polls.
Chapter Four deals with the politics of passing NAFTA with Democratic Party votes. President Clinton sought the help of the Republican Party and the Fortune 500 (p.199). Why? "Politics is self-interest. Simply put, it's complete self-interest. The fact of the matter is, they'll get in bed with anyone" (p.201). Pages 17-8 tell how a "grass roots" campaign is manufactured. Pages 218-9 tell how a "grass tops" campaign is run: find important people in a congressional district and get them to repeat your
requests in person. with a lower tariff on Mexican imports, the lost revenue means higher taxes for Americans whether or not they still have a job (p.232).
"The fact of the matter is they won NAFTA because of money, because of gifts, because of special interests, goodies, and everything else. They did not necessarily win the debate" (p.275). Since then the number of manufacturing jobs have declined; NAFTA helped to export jobs, not goods (p.282). Pages 285-6 lists the bad things that happened after NAFTA's ratification. Page 291 says the abolition of the Mexican communal land system (like the English Encclosure Acts) drove millions off the land, and some across the border; an increasing pool of cheap labor.
A Good Read!.......2001-04-19
John MacArthur, editor of Harper's Magazine, is a persistent, resourceful, and thorough reporter with an unapologetic opinion about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). MacArthur makes no attempt to disguise his disdain for the trade pact, which he describes as a measure designed to institutionalize U.S. exploitation of Mexican workers, or for the politicians, businessmen and lobbyists who supported it. In researching this book, MacArthur interviewed many of the key national and international players who helped create NAFTA and found rare interviews with others. He illustrates the debate by presenting an analysis of NAFTA's impact on workers at a U.S factory, and on the Mexicans who replace them. Ironically, he paints such an effective portrait of the inner workings of the Mexican maquiladoras factories that U.S. business leaders reading this book might be further enticed to relocate. The finest feature of the book is its exhaustive treatment of the law-making process, and its lucid judgment of the Washington establishment. We [...] recommend this book to students of politics or international trade, business leaders interested in gaining insight into the anti-globalization movement, and to anyone trying to get a bill passed in the U.S. Congress.
Book Description
In his foreword to the book, Sidney Weintraub argues that the negotiations leading to the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may be the most important between the United States and Mexico since the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago. This book examines those negotiations from the vantage point of one of the key Mexican officials, Hermann von Bertrab. As an insider, but as someone on the other side of the discussions, he provides a prospective rarely offered of contemporary American foreign and economic policymaking. Concentrating on the negotiations between the United States and Mexico, with some analysis of the Canadian component, von Bertrab characterizes the discussions as moving through four stages: an initial fast track, the detailed examination of the proposals, a stage of mobilization political support and working out side agreements, and a ratification stage. All in all, a fascinating report on a major diplomatic event and an opportunity to see ourselves as we are seen by foreign officials. Of considerable interest to scholars and researchers of contemporary American foreign and economic policymaking and Latin American Studies.
Book Description
This book examines the notion of "free trade" and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Essays by Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown, William Greider, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ritchie, Wendell Berry, Pat Choate, and others.
Customer Reviews:
Laissez-Faire-Fairy.......2006-05-17
The case against free trade written by 19 objective essays is the real consequense of free trade.This book will give you all you need to stop free trade by voting out those who support it.Published 1993 it still is the essense,CAFTA has been added,but is it under review.Fast tracting is suppose to be stopped will it be.
It has been disclosed by rumor that the fairy is a Rat in disquise.This has not been substantiated by our source,but we will keep an open mind.
Free trade in nothing but a monopoly which is international.The coporat want Democratic socailism for them but not for you.They fix prices,they make all countries to play under same rules.They reduce the food standard,milk for babies in all countries will be the same,and this is endless and we will go to hell.The world will be the same all third world.Think.
We are living in historic times if we do not take america back in 2006,2008 we will no longer have a nation HR4437.Without guts you will cease to exist Free trade and immigration will break our nation,never to be fixed again.Our death for the lack of guts.Are we going to let old men and women make the last stand,and then deny we are responsible.Are we that corrupt??????? And weak????????...................................
The following is for morons eyes only.GATT General agreement on teriff and trade.NAFTA North american free trade agreement.New CAFTA Central american free trade agreement.Fast tract.Page 53 The fast tract approval process limits congress ability to scrutinize and modify trade agreements.Thus under fast tract procedure no impliment to the implimenting legislation or the trade agreement are permitted,debate in either house is limited to not more than 20 hours,and a floor vote must be taken within 60 to 90 days of the submission of the agreement to congress.In other words,the implimenting legislation must be adopted by yes or no vote within60 to 90 days legislative days of it submission by the president.Will it be repeal.What kind of congress would allow this.?????????????
Page 1 The forture 200's GATT and NAFTA would make the air you breath dirtier and the water you drink more polluted.It would cost jobs,depress wages levels,and make work place less safe.It would destroy family farms and undermine cosumer protections such as those ensuring that the food you eat is not compromised by unsanitary conditions or higher levels of pesticides and perservatives.
Page164 One reason for the decline of grain farming was the importation of grain into Rome from the rich grain lands of sicily and EgyptIn sicily these grain land lands had been appropriated by rich men and scheming politicians who farm them with slave labor.As a result the markets of Rome were flooded with cheap grain.Grain became so cheap that the farmers who still owned small pieces of land could not get enough money for the grain they raised to support their familes and pay their taxes.They were forced to to turn their farms over to rich landowners.On the land of Italy slave gangs working under overseers took the place of the old Roman farmer,the very backbone of the state,etc EMINENT DOMAIN,DEPRESSION,POPULACE MOVEMENT US 1930ties and before.Federal Reserve UNCONSTITUTIONAL .Recession ,depression.inflation,International Bankers they are the fairy
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CURRENCY Manipulation,FIAT money,WORTHLESS.GOLD who controls it.
Devaluation of the coin,etc.Shares,bonds, mutual funds,a JOKE on you it is taking you down with cridit cards included yes,yes,yes.Have you seen the light MORON vote them out.DEFICIT,INTEREST RATE MORON.COMPOUNDED FOREVER ROME again.
One hundred people cannot compete with one 1,000 people on a equal basis.China and India will eat us alive until we are no more.A child can understand the equation.You cannot have equal trading,if you do, you go down the tubes.Like immigration they will kill us as a nation and all of the western world.France is more DEMOCRATIC than US.Strong UNIONS,REAGAN took them out in U.S. along with his coporat friends,and supporters.Cheap labor SHEEP,brainwished,the computer mind cannot think BRAINWASHED.NO wonder the MORONS are DIStracted, computer high tec gratification,no outside world.Canot analylize,or otherwise.This is what your education has done along with the FAIRY,you cannot think just like a ROBOT MORON
Free trade and population go together over population,Profit for excess population, and power by reducing power of individual.Devalue the individual,and make him a slave,no representation.Over population is the greatest threat to mankind.Yes global warming,necleur War is with us also.The more sheep you have the more profit you make,but at a point there are to many, over production,so you have a war or bird flu to reduce and distract them from voting,or you create fear of some evil attact,You say they are not democratic if they do not play your game.30 percent live by these ends,but pretend to be true americans, they wear flags on their coats,and other places were the sun does not shine.They love us.TAKE AMERICA BACK,VOTE THEM OUT.The sellout on free trade,immigration.TAKE AMERICA BACK.
The supreme court,senate congress,electric voting,not accountable.Congress has allowed the country to become totally corrupt.It has not enforced the law of the U.S.How can you forgive them.If they do not get their act together and vote right vote them out,out,out,send them to the moon the alians are waiting,mars too.
Democratic socialism as in France would be a good start. The international bankers,and other coporat hate FRANCE,WHY.????????
WE no the NWO is at hand,no nations, just slaves.War,death,over population,hunger,Fear,class struggle,greed,hate,DECEPTION this is the good life for desert NUCLEUR WAR,for oil,and international bankers.OIL,OIL,OIL= alternative energy.There is no energy shortage.
Free trade traidors, VW BUG PEOPLES CAR 1930s 35 40 miles per gallion.Today 25 miles per gallion adverage.The cause of suffering is luxury.We do not conserve,we do not know how,brainwashed.A 1960 a 12 year high shool degree exceeds a BA in Reading,writing and arithmetic,and many other subjects.Over population degrades the system and the quality of life.IQ reduced because of less quality.
In conclusion do not let any professor tell you you should not debate the subject and discuss in class the pro and con of a subject.If he does he is not educating you ,but BRAINWAShing you out of fear.You know they are affraid of the truth,and want to undermind the american people.Have them investigated for TREASON.Who are they serving,they are double talkers and liars.They are in all the universities.Think in black and white not color that is how they have confuse you.Take your universities back.Know your history and be proud,Have manatory physical education,all exercise,technology is not the essense of life.We need to turn back in education,and culture before JFK was killed by you know who,not Oswald MORON,MORon.You do not even know you are a amoron,stupid too.No U.S.History Charles Beard,good luck.You are being cheated and do not know it moron MORON.????????????????????????????????????????.
Take care of our nation first-no immigration until every american has a job and ,decent standard of living.Free medical and car insurance for all americam citizens.Regulated coporations that pay tax along with the rich and upper classes.The middle class is dying,the poor have no benefits,no draft army,the brave are being killed for the worthless coporat FAIRY stop this deception,throw out the congress we are invested with adictive greed,corruption that equqls that of ROME.CREDIT cards what a rip off you a slave forever,congress let it happen along with their coporat faries.Liberty or death.
Compelling, for unusual reasons.......2004-05-17
The proponents of free trade have had at their disposal a convincing and, often times, quite believable theory to describe the way that the world functions. As a liberal, I have frequently wanted to reject all the theoretical underpinnings of free trade. I've spent many hours trying to fill their theory with holes. At the same time, as an economics major and free thinker, it's just not been tenable for me to disregard modern economic theory. There are no alternatives that could take the theory's place in effectiveness, or in accuracy. In sum, I picked up this book at a time when what I wanted to believe did not gel with what I was compelled to believe, academically.
This book does not explicitly offer a "third way" that could substitute for capitalism or socialism. And as might be expected, the authors make a big deal out of the bad things that come with economic liberalism. The "Race to The Bottom" is mentioned quite often. In this sense, there's not much new here. Read Soros, Stiglitz, Greider, or even Wallerstien - you'll find a lot of the same thing.
What is unique about this book, and why I am giving it five stars, is that the book added a new dimension to the context of my discontent with the current "system." More exactly: the alternative theory that could come out of this book pales to liberalism; much of the liberal thought about economics has to do with values, and it not often as compelling as the official theory; and while this book emphasizes values to a great deal (state sovereignty, for example) it tends to emphasize values that are much more axiomatic. For example: The authors describe how the specifics of NAFTA were not made readily and directly available to the public; and even once they were, the document was so convoluted and inaccessible that hardly anyone bothered to read it.
This example (there are many others) is useful to me because it does not necessitate e a conflict with liberalism. In other words: It may be true that free trade works best. I don't want to believe that, I am compelled nevertheless to believe that, but no matter what I believe about free trade, I am positive that trade agreements should be made available to the public (quickly, cheaply, and in a language that can be understood). Values are still involved. But the answers to the "value questions" are answered axiomatically, for most of us. This book is unique and valuable (no pun) for the reason that it criticizes free trade in a way that (1) the criticism will either be accepted or rejected immediately, and (2) the criticism is not contradictory, and may be useful, to the liberalist's theory that has been so difficult to dethrone.
It'll Change your Mind.......2000-11-30
This is an excellent book written by some of the leading authorities on NAFTA and GATT (Including Ralph Nader). Each "chapter" written by a different person is short and to the point. You can read as much or as little as you want, without feeling the need to finish the chapter. This book WILL make you sweat with anger at points. It is an excellent read.
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North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations
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