Letter to the Editor, Posted: 6/1/05
TO THE EDITOR:
President Bush continues to insist that the 1993 entangling of Canada, Mexico and the United States in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been a grand success. He now wants Congress to approve a new pact entitled the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) which would expand NAFTA into the nations in that region.
But we now have more than a decade of experience with NAFTA, and the results have hardly been the success Mr. Bush claims.
NAFTA has cost close to a million American jobs, opened more widely our nationís already porous southern border and given its judicial tribunal power to override decisions of our state and federal courts.
In short, NAFTA has been a disaster for our country and a huge step toward a world government, the hidden motivation behind each of these so-called ěfree tradeî agreements.
Rather than adding to these setbacks for our country, Congress must say ěNo to CAFTAî and then begin to repudiate NAFTA.
Reasserting U.S. independence should be the goal of our leaders, not placing our country into agreements that harm us economically and threaten our sovereignty.
Ralph W. Carlson
Harris
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