Comments on: TIMELINE: The Secret Bush-Democratic Trade Deal & What It Means http://blog.pdamerica.org/2007/05/timeline-the-secret-bush-democratic-trade-deal-what-it-means/ Posts do not necessarily represent the views of PDA, its Board or Membership Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:46:53 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: G http://blog.pdamerica.org/2007/05/timeline-the-secret-bush-democratic-trade-deal-what-it-means/comment-page-1/#comment-90516 G Mon, 14 May 2007 17:49:49 +0000 http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1091#comment-90516 Looking at the socioeconomic decline in many cities ,towns and neighborhoods across the country over the last 15- 20 years , the impact of our trade policies leaves little doubt that the American people are not the winners in theses deals .. A new pending ,and as yet , undisclosed trade deal between Democrats and Bush purports to add new labor and environmental standards but we’ve seen this game before: a NAFTA/WTO -style agreement will typically contain hundreds of pages of rules that: · promote the off-shoring of jobs · undermine our food safety, even for pets · jack up medicines prices, · gut our labor and environmental procurement rules · grow our $800 billion dollar trade deficit . · contain weak or easily circumvented safeguards for workers and domestic businesses with no means of enforcement · enable the continuation of White House “wink and nod” non-enforcement of fair trade compliance provisions · reduce or eliminate means of input ,monitoring and/or remedy by American citizens , Congress or Labor organizations In short, bad trade deals mean large multinationals get deals not accessible by smaller companies, so the smaller firms either go out of business or outsource jobs to cheap foreign labor like the big boys, either way we loose jobs at home and force more illegal labor across our borders. Below is a summary of protest that is mounting over the latest round of secret backroom trade deals involving Ways and Means Chairman - Charles Rangel, Speaker - Pelosi and Bush II. Here is an easy link http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11354 with a draft letter some are using as a model to express their concerns to their Congressional Representatives . If it’s good for America why hide it from us? We can no longer afford business as usual. Looking at the socioeconomic decline in many cities ,towns and neighborhoods across the country over the last 15- 20 years , the impact of our trade policies leaves little doubt that the American people are not the winners in theses deals ..

A new pending ,and as yet , undisclosed trade deal between Democrats and Bush purports to add new labor and environmental standards but we’ve seen this game before: a NAFTA/WTO -style agreement will typically contain hundreds of pages of rules that:

· promote the off-shoring of jobs

· undermine our food safety, even for pets

· jack up medicines prices,

· gut our labor and environmental procurement rules

· grow our $800 billion dollar trade deficit .

· contain weak or easily circumvented safeguards for workers and domestic businesses with no means of enforcement

· enable the continuation of White House “wink and nod” non-enforcement of fair trade compliance provisions

· reduce or eliminate means of input ,monitoring and/or remedy by American citizens , Congress or Labor organizations

In short, bad trade deals mean large multinationals get deals not accessible by smaller companies, so the smaller firms either go out of business or outsource jobs to cheap foreign labor like the big boys, either way we loose jobs at home and force more illegal labor across our borders.

Below is a summary of protest that is mounting over the latest round of secret backroom trade deals involving Ways and Means Chairman – Charles Rangel, Speaker – Pelosi and Bush II.

Here is an easy link
http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11354 with a draft letter some are using as a model to express their concerns to their Congressional Representatives . If it’s good for America why hide it from us? We can no longer afford business as usual.

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