Kucinich on Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)

[redqueen]

12/18/03
"CAFTA not only rhymes with NAFTA, but will extend the economic 'disasta' that Ohio knows something about to more Americans, especially in the South. That is because CAFTA will cause the textile mills of the Carolinas and Georgia to close in the face of imports made cheaper by the agreement.

"Some industry experts estimate that dozens of mills, and tens of thousands of textile mill workers, that are currently hanging on, will go bankrupt. The only beneficiaries will be companies with Central American and Asian factories. The President has also betrayed the millions of poor people in Central America. Under CAFTA, they'll no longer be able to get access to low-cost pharmaceuticals, which will be made illegal under CAFTA."
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I love it...
"CAFTA not only rhymes with NAFTA, but will extend the economic 'disasta'"

Has his outreach in the hip hop community rubbed off on our beloved Kooch? ;)

[JohnKleeb]

1. heh thats a good one

[no name no slogan]

2. I think it's rubbed off on him

he obviously spent some time at www.wewantkucinich.com downloading those hip-hop tracks. Mad props to the Kooch!!!!

:toast:

[Droopy]

3. Go DK!

I can't tell you how much I want this guy to be president.

[LWolf]

6. Sure you can.

It's mutual!

[redqueen]

4. He SO rocks on all the issues.

I cannot wait to hear the commentary from our nine candidates after the CAFTA issue is raised in congress next month.

How might that change the polls?

How many support making what we don't have working right now WORSE?!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. And I wonder how many people even know about CAFTA

I'm sure the big boys are trying to sneak this one through.

[goodhue]

7. cafta disasta

DK is dead on as always

[snoochie]

8. Lack of commentary

Well isn't this heartening.

The only guy who will get us out of this nightmare and nobody else comes in to say anything. Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of Democrats are whistling past the graveyard on this issue?

I am starting to get very upset about this. Where are the Dems on this issue? All this talk about reforming these agreements strikes me as hollow when nobody will debunk Kucinich's statement that we can't do that under the rules of the WTO.

I trust Kucinich. And to any supporters of any other candidates saying they'll reform it... ask yourself - no better yet, ask the candidate why Kucinich is saying it can't be done?

And also, why hasn't it already been done? It's been a decade already... let's get a straight answer before we decide our future, please!

[no name no slogan]

9. In the words of big media:

SHHHH!!!!!! Icksnay on the AFTA-Cay!!! You don't want this election to become a referendum on the ISSUES, do you??? :evilgrin:

[MuseRider]

10. I think the same

goes for a few of the candidates as well.

[snoochie]

11. Well I don't know about you two...

but I'm really tired of this avoidance.

This should be an issue... instead all we hear about is Saddam Saddam Saddam... !!!!

I was going to put a link here to a page with information about how damaging these programs are, but what's the point? These threads are avoided like the plague, apparently.

:(

[JohnKleeb]

12. put up the link I am interested

[snoochie]

13. Okay here goes

Here it is... I'm sure it's been posted before but it's a great resource.

http://www.citizen.org/trade/

[MuseRider]

14. Thanks for the link.

This is important so this will give it a little kick up.

[snoochie]

15. Thanks for the kick.

:)

:kick:

[diamondsoul]

16. kicking hard