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ECONOMICS: Trade Agreements

 
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Aug25-05, 10:33 PM   #18
 
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ECONOMICS: Trade Agreements


Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch has announced the launch of the CAFTA Damage Report, an on-going series of reports to track the consequences of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in Congressional districts where Congresspeople accepted "deals" in exchange for their trade vote.
http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1172
Aug26-05, 12:01 AM   #19
 
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That's democracy in action, for you. Democracy = compromise. Nobody likes to compromise, but virtually everyone does.
Aug26-05, 01:29 PM   #20
 
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That's democracy in action, for you. Democracy = compromise. Nobody likes to compromise, but virtually everyone does.
Yes...and then there is "buying" votes, or fear of losing constituent support due to threats to local projects (blackmail) in which a true win-win scenario may not exist. Too many votes were flipped last minute not to be highly suspect.
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