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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:03:09 -0700
From: Blumstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [JBirch] Phyllis Schlafly: CAFTA Should Be Rejected Just Like The
EU Constitution
CAFTA Should Be Rejected Just Like The EU Constitution
June 29, 2005
by Phyllis Schlafly
Since democracy is the worldwide goal of the Bush Administration, we
must face the stunning fact that the integration of different
nationalities under a common European Union (EU) constitution was
rejected by decisive democratic votes. President Bush can thank
conservative leaders for saving him from the embarrassment of
endorsing the EU constitution shortly before it was so soundly
defeated in France and the Netherlands.
The EU constitution was defeated because Western Europeans don't want
to be politically or economically or socially integrated with the
culture, economy, lifestyle, or history of Eastern Europe and Muslim
countries. Western Europeans recognized in the proposed EU
constitution a loss of national identity and freedom to a foreign
bureaucracy, plus a redistribution of wealth from richer countries to
poorer countries.
Will the political and business elites in America hear this message
and stop trying to force CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement)
on America?
The Senate Republican Policy Committee appears to be tone deaf. Its
just-released policy paper argues that CAFTA should be approved
because its purpose is "integrating more closely with 34 hemispheric
neighbors -- thus furthering the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
(FTAA)" which the 2001 Quebec Declaration declared would bring about
"hemispheric integration."
Americans don't want to be "integrated" with the poverty, corruption,
socialism and communism of our hemispheric neighbors any more than
the French want to be integrated with the Turks and Bulgarians.
Just as the French and Dutch were suspicious of the dangers lurking
in the 485-page EU constitution, Americans are wary of the dangers
hiding in the 92-page CAFTA legislation plus the 31 pages that
purport to spell out the administrative actions the U.S. must take in
compliance. No wonder CAFTA's supporters are bypassing our
Constitution's requirement that treaties can be valid only if passed
by two-thirds of our Senators.
The Senate Republican policy paper argues that CAFTA "will promote
democratic governance." But there is nothing democratic about CAFTA's
many pages of grants of vague authority to foreign tribunals on which
foreign judges could force us to change our domestic laws to be "no
more burdensome than necessary" on foreign trade.
We have had enough impertinent interference with our lives and
economy from the international tribunals Congress has already locked
us into, such as the WTO (World Trade Organization) and NAFTA (North
American Free Trade Agreement). Americans don't want decisions from
another anti-American tribunal any more than the French and Dutch
wanted their lives micro-managed by Belgian bureaucrats.
The EU political elite ridiculed the French and the Dutch for not
realizing that globalism is on the march and we should all get on the
train before it leaves the station. The French and Dutch woke up to
the fact that the engineers of the EU train are bureaucrats in
Brussels and judges in Luxembourg who invent regulations and
judge-made laws without so much as tip of their hats to democracy.
The pro-EU political bosses blamed the "non" vote by the French on
worry about losing their jobs to the cheap labor of Eastern Europe
and Turkey. But the worry was grounded in reality, and Americans are
likewise correct to worry about how CAFTA will put U.S. jobs in
competition with low-wage Central America where the average factory
worker is paid about one dollar an hour.
CAFTA would even prohibit U.S. states from giving preference to
American workers when taxpayer-funded contracts are granted.
CAFTA is not about free trade; it's about round-trip trade. That
means multinational corporations sending their raw materials to poor
countries where they can hire very cheap labor and avoid U.S.
employment, safety and environmental regulations, and then bringing
the finished goods back into the United States duty-free to undersell
U.S. companies that pay decent wages and comply with our laws.
The promise that CAFTA will give us 44 million new customers for U.S.
goods is pie in the sky like the false promise that letting Communist
China into the WTO would give us a billion-person market for American
agriculture. Or the false promise that NAFTA would increase our trade
surplus with Mexico to $10 billion when, in fact, it nosedived to a
$62 billion deficit.
Knowing that Americans are upset about Central America's chief export
to the U.S., which is the incredibly vicious MS-13 Salvadoran gangs,
the Senate Republican policy paper assures us that CAFTA will
diminish "the incentives for illegal immigration to the United
States." That's another fairy tale like the unfulfilled promise that
NAFTA would reduce illegal aliens and illegal drugs entering the U.S.
from Mexico.
By stating that CAFTA means the implementation of a "rules-based
framework" for trade, investment and technology, the Senate
Republican policy paper confirms that free trade requires world, or
at least hemispheric, government. You can't have a single economy
without a single government.
CAFTA may serve the economic interests of the globalists and the
multinational corporations, but it makes no sense historically,
constitutionally, or democratically. Americans will never sing God
Bless the Western Hemisphere instead of God Bless America.
Phyllis Schlafly's new book The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges
and How to Stop It is now available!
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