“Free Trade” is a Disaster!

When will we wake up to the realization that some of the agreements we have signed, most specifically our agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and our agreement with Canada and Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are preventing us from doing what is in our best interests? Currently, we are being controlled and directed – told what to do – by other nations, for their benefit and to our detriment. Our current direction in so-called “free trade” is not just hurting us – it is destroying us. One look at our current condition and present direction will clearly show we are in a mode of self destruction.

Foreigners laugh at us as they watch us wasting lives and money – we are literally killing ourselves!

The 2010 military budget is currently $685.1 billion. This money is stretched too thin all across the globe, yet we have no one protecting us at home economically. Despite all of our firepower, we absolutely cannot determine our own fate as members of the WTO. We are now guided economically by the agreements we signed. We must be our own masters. We must be able to run our own country for our own benefit, which we, attributable to our agreements with the WTO and NAFTA, are not allowed to do.

We are letting other nations buy us out!

With their new wealth, these foreign businesses and nations buy powerful and well financed lobbyists. These lobbyists benefit the interests of an elite few – those that pay them – to the detriment of our country as a whole.

We must not let other nations act with predatory intent as they currently are, which prevents us from competing on a global scale. Our “free trade” agreements are only giving our competitors the freedom to deliver their goods to our country with prices deliberately devalued to predatorily put our companies out of business. This has made us jobless – a servant economy reliant on foreign debt and foreign goods.

Other countries absolutely do not allow our companies to move products into their nations as freely, they do not want our products harming their companies in any way. Rather, they allow our companies to move our production and manufacturing to their shores, giving them the manufacturing and production they need for a strong and vibrant economy – like the one we formerly had.

We are eating contaminated food, no one is checking our imports!

Almost all the seafood sold in American grocery stores – 80 percent – now comes from developing nations. The FDA inspects and tests less than 1 percent of all seafood imports, and the food it does inspect is often rejected due to the presence of banned chemicals and antibiotics. Alabama’s Commissioner of Agriculture, Ron Sparks, recently traveled to Vietnam and witnessed fish farmed in sewage. U.S. fish farmers cannot compete with cheap importers who cut corners on safety, and the flood of foreign fish is devastating their business and threatening America’s health.

Have we become stupefied by the uncontrolled, unchecked food and medicine that we import to live on?

We MUST DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS!!!

It is time we started negotiating new trade deals with these foreign nations, ones that will benefit American workers and American employers. We need new deals that will make it profitable to manufacture and produce in the United Sates again. If we do not, our nation may never recover from the damage we are doing to ourselves. If we do not awaken now, we may realize we are in our final slumber.

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