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March 8th, 2005 -- Issue 5 -- House will take up CAFTA
Also Online at http://webpages.charter.net/agussert/wiscotrader5.htm
The Good: Poll Shows Americans Oppose CAFTA
"Would you favor or oppose CAFTA if it reduces prices you pay as a
consumer
but eliminates jobs for U.S. workers?" A whopping 74% of voters polled
said
they would oppose the agreement; 17% were in sup****t. The survey also
found
that 51% oppose the CAFTA trade agreement altogether and only 32% sup****ts
it. Anti-CAFTA sentiment crosses party lines, with Republicans (47 to 37
percent) joining Democrats (53 to 31 percent) and Independents (53 to 32
percent) in opposition to the agreement. Overall opposition to CAFTA is
stronger in red states (53 to 31 percent) than in blue states (48 to 34
percent). More polling results at www.americansforfairtrade.org
The Bad: GOP sup****ters say House will take up CAFTA
The GOP "point man" on CAFTA, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) told a Wa****ngton
D.C.
forum that "we will have the votes in the House". Other House Republicans
say it is "too early" to talk vote counts since many members are still
sitting on the fence. Brady predicted the vote "within the next two to
three
months," saying they will need the votes of 20 to 25 Democrats to approve
the agreement, Wa****ngton Trade Daily re****ts (3/4).
The Ugly 435 jobs at Lands' End cut
Cross Plains Village President Richard Anderson said rumors of the closing
have been circulating for six months. "Some sort of downsizing seemed
imminent when Sears bought them and the pending merger with Kmart," he
said.
Anderson said he was also told by a Lands' End executive that the call
center jobs were being outsourced, a charge that company officials denied
today. "If they are moving these jobs overseas that's pretty disturbing to
me," Anderson said. If true, it's even more devastating for a company
that
boasts on its website: "It can still be done in America today".
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