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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 01:42 AM
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If corporate personhood is the vehicle, FREE TRADE is the fuel driving America off a cliff.
Free Trade is CP on steroids.

FT injected new life into CP.

FT is two pronged destruction on the working class and the poor.

1. Wage busting and mass unemployment due to outsourcing jobs have left 75% of America nearly broke. Politically this has SAPPED the working class' ability to be politically active. Our ability to donate to progressive pro-worker candidates has been thoroughly compromised by wage busting and outsourcing.
How? It's kinda hard to be politically active when you can't afford to feed yourself or keep a roof over your head. Donating $10 might mean you don't eat for awhile.

Weakening us politically has worked masterfully for our slavemasters.

2. FT has fueled the explosive growth of the wealth divide between the wealthy and poor/working class. Empowering corporate America with newfound wealth. Handed even more power with the recent USSC's dreadful, unAmerican decision.

FT has fueled corporate America into a nearly unstoppable juggernaut.

I agree wholeheartedly with ALL DU'ers who call for repeal of CP. But it won't go far unless we repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT/WTO as well.

CP brought us FT. FT has rewarded CP, handsomely.

Time to repeal both.

Repeal them or die, working class and poor. It's that simple.
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