On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:46:14 GMT, Speeders & Drunk Drivers are
MURDERERS > wrote:

>I suspect there will be a run on roofing nails too. We need to bring
>a halt to this merger with mexico that Bush and the congressional
>traitors of both parties are stuffing down our throats.

I bought a copy of NAFTA, and read the parts which were readable. Lots
of it was not readable - consisting of long lists of all kind of stuff
and what the current and future tariff rates would be. Twine, twisted,
cotton, 13 percent. Twine, twisted, nylon 13 percent on and on and on.
But the actual comprehensible part, on the rules? It was clear to me
that what Nafta does is

level the playing field. To the benefit of the US.

Remember all the talk about how the playing field was rigged against
us? It was. Example - Mexico. We were paying a tariff of about 3
percent on average for stuff made in Mexico sold in the US. But they
were screwing our goods, charging the Mexicans a fifteen percent
tariff, on average, for our goods. That was a playing field really
tilted against us. It wasn't fair.

So what Nafta does is mainly stop them from screwing us. They have
agreed to lower their tariffs way down, to zero for a whole bunch of
stuff. And we agree to lower our tariffs on their stuff, often to
zero.

So instead of playing on an unfair playing field, we can now compete
with Mexican goods on a level playing field.

Why in God's name would you be opposed to that?

WHy do you favor the old system, where our companies got royally
screwed when they tried to sell stuff into Mexico?

While their stuff got off so light when it came in here?

THere is also a chapter on a court to resolve disputes. Seems
reasonable to me to have a court to resolve cheating etc. I don't see
a problem with that.

AND THATS IT. That's all NAFTA is.

It's not the Spawn of Satan.