APEC and America’s Dangerous Free Trade Deception
OPS_admin | Jul 16, 2010 | Comments 0
We know for a fact that America’s listless pursuit of “free trade at all costs” has resulted in lost jobs, reduced GDP, and weakened national security. The figures are undeniable.
On July 14 the National Center for APEC (NCAPEC) held a private get together just inches from the White House at the Willard Intercontinental hotel. Aside from the various businesses and trade groups in attendance, the private party also played host to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and Representative Kevin Brady (R-Texas). Senator Max Baucus (Montana), after a long delay, arrived just in time to provide the keynote.
The room erupted into a congratulatory cacophony when the ambassador from the Republic of Korea was introduced and thanked for his hard work on forging ahead with the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. According to both Senator Baucus and Representative Brady, ratifying this treaty in Congress will be the most important thing our national legislature accomplishes in the next year.
In the avenue of international commerce, our political leadership has no goals. They have empty ideals and failed methodology. They ingratiate themselves with organizations like APEC in order to forward their own positions, but they provide nothing substantive and lasting to the people they represent.
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