Tyrebiter Gets Flattened Playing In Mexican Traffic
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Tracey1212 wrote:
> George Leroy Tyrebiter, Jr. wrote:
> > 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.
> Nearly 37 million US jobs have been deported south of the border to
> some latin dump as a result of NAFTA. So, why would you be opposed to
> that, dingbat?
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