On May 9, 3:49=A0am, "Dionysus" <no surren...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 8, 10:23 am, "Dionysus" <no surren...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> EDITORIAL FROM IBD
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> >> HEAD: Igniting Growth
>
> >> Trade: As the U.S. economic hearth flickers, it makes sense to fan it
> >> back
> >> with the last hardy embers of growth. One is ex****ts, which burn
> >> brightest
> >> with free- trade treaties. So why is Congress snuffing them out?
>
> >> Last week's preliminary gross domestic product data for the first
quart=
er
> >> showed a pallid 0.6% rise. Housing was a drag, pulling real GDP down
> >> 1.2%.
> >> Business sales were unimpressive, and consumer spending was weak.
>
> >> But there was one bright spot: ex****ts, which rose 5.5% according to
th=
e
> >> Bureau of Economic Analysis, accounting for a third of U.S. economic
> >> growth
> >> during the quarter.
>
> >> Schwab: Fed up with free-trade foes.
> >> Maybe that's why President Bush isn't letting up on urging Congress
to
> >> pass
> >> three pending free-trade agreements, which will strengthen U.S.
ex****ts=
..
> >> It
> >> may have hit a wall with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi manipulating
House
> >> voting rules, but with a potential recession looming, Bush has no
choic=
e
> >> but
> >> to seek it anyway.
>
> >> "Opening markets is especially im****tant during this time of economic
> >> uncertainty," Bush said Wednesday. "Last year, ex****ts accounted for
mo=
re
> >> than 40% of America's total economic growth. With our economy slowing
.=
.
> >> .
> >> we should be doing everything possible to open up new markets for
U.S.
> >> goods
> >> and services."
>
> >> Thus far, his plea has fallen on deaf ears in Congress, which has
refus=
ed
> >> to
> >> ratify U.S. deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Worse, it
has
> >> halted any new pacts from being negotiated.
>
> >> After all, with Pelosi literally changing the House rules for a
treaty
> >> vote
> >> to "anytime I want," it's unlikely any nation would negotiate a
> >> free-trade
> >> deal only to see it become a public bargaining chip for Pelosi's
> >> ****k-barrel
> >> spending schemes.
>
> >> Pelosi has allies in Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama
an=
d
> >> Hillary Clinton. They have collectively become the Three Stooges of
Big=
> >> Labor, which opposes free trade.
>
> >> Pelosi insists that she's putting the American people first. That
> >> prompted
> >> U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab to blast those who "demagogue
an=
d
> >> prey on anxieties and fear. We do a disservice to the American people
b=
y
> >> pretending that trade is somehow the culprit of our economic problems
a=
nd
> >> anxieties." We know whom she meant.
>
> >> Again, let's look at what free trade with Colombia would do.
>
> >> . It slashes tariffs from 32% to zero on 72% of U.S. goods right off
th=
e
> >> bat. Better still, it levels the playing field for U.S. firms because
> >> Colombian goods already enter the U.S. duty-free. In the 17 months
that=
> >> the
> >> treaty has awaited passage, U.S. businesses have shelled out $1
billion=
> >> in
> >> tariffs to sell goods in Colombia.
>
> >> . It provides U.S. investors with legal protections and provides for
> >> international arbitration if anything goes wrong.
>
> >> . It ends child labor and lessens environmental damage, two extras
the
> >> Democrats requested and got.
>
> >> Meanwhile, if it's not passed, the U.S. economy gets . . . nothing.
>
> >> "Delaying the vote on the Colombia (pact) does not create one
American
> >> job,
> >> it does not put one more dollar in anyone's pocket, does not save one
> >> life,
> >> does not help one union to organize, or protect one endangered
species,=
"
> >> Schwab said.
>
> >> It just goes to show that doing nothing on free trade isn't an
> >> accomplishment. In fact, it's a wet rag on the U.S. economy that will
> >> eventually draw angry retribution from U.S. voters.
>
> >> Bush knows this. Too bad Pelosi doesn't.
> >> **********
> >> Too bad Crabs doesn't know her arse from a hole in the ground.
>
> >> Dionysus
>
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > The word is ASS! =A0And too bad you are one, Surrenderboy!
>
> ******
> Only to vulgar and unsophisticated arses such as you, Dung Beetle.
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