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Originally Posted by lookout123
Like i've said before. Bush isn't America's best choice, but he is the best choice of the available options.
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So you advocate the destruction of free trade? If using emotions, then one will conclude that George Jr is a free trader. Facts say completely different. The US is having record numbers of decisions imposed against it by the WTO. The tarriffs to protect anti-American steel companies (USX, Bethlehem Steel, etc) was an outright violation of free trade; not based upon economic data. That attempt to get steel votes also undermined one of America's most productive industries - the America steel reprocessing industry - resulting in a loss estimated at between 20,000 and 40,000 American jobs.
Bush has a long list of facts against him. Free trade is but one example. George Jr opposes free trade. Having completely undermined the WTO conference in Mexico resulting in most nations walking out days early. Many actually 'feel' George Jr advocated free trade. The facts repeatedly say different.
When you look George Jr, do you see his propaganda as lookout123 apparently does? Or do you be blunt and politically incorrect as I am - to learn the real facts. Facts-
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from The Economist of 4 Sept 2004
If has been a rough summer at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for America's trade officials. Recently the arbiter of global trade rules has ruled against them in cases from cotton subsidies to Canadian lumber. Now the Geneva body has also meted out punishment. On August 31st, a WTO arbitration panel ruled that eight of the organisation's members, including the European Union, could impose tariffs ... on Amerian goods, because America has failed to repeal a law that the WTO first deemed illegal in 2000.
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Do you believe in world free trade? Are you employed by a steel reprocessing company (ie machine shop)? Then you must hate George Jr. This is not widely known because too many naively think George Jr is a free trader. Even the advantages of NAFTA has been stifled by George Jr, in part, because his 'so called' good friend and president in Mexico opposed the war in Iraq.
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