Repukes are going to delay slave-wage trade votes until

[Elwood P Dowd]

after the November elections. There are several trade deals in the hopper with countries (including Vietnam) that pay workers 50 cents an hour or less. Congress pulled this same shit in 1993 when NAFTA passed. Watching that vote on CSPAN was one of the saddest days of my life.

[MadMaddie]

1. This is why we have to win in November.....

and my friend sad to say I am sure we are all going to see many more sad days before November.....hang in there...

[AmandaRuth]

2. after seeing the min wage increase go down, i am sure

what the repukes really want is to just get it over with and reduce the min wage to .50 an hour and save the elite the trouble of off shoring all those jobs.

[PsycheCC]

7. Yep, and if they keep bringing in more and more cheap labor, they

might not have to reduce the minimum wage. They can just keep paying under the table and screwing the American worker.

[unlawflcombatnt]

3. We need to get the Democrats to fight this on a party line basis

There certainly will be more trade deals like CAFTA, which would not have passed without the help of 16 House Democrats who voted for it. There were more than enough Republican defectors to have defeated CAFTA. If even 2 more Democrats had voted against it it would have been defeated.

unlawflcombatnt

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The economy needs balance between the "means of production" & "means of consumption."

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. That was a disgusting night of CSPAN watching

I'm getting too old for this crap.

[unlawflcombatnt]

5. Disgusting and simply unbelievable

I still can't believe CAFTA went through, especially considering all the Republican defectors in the House that voted against it.

I just can't imagine what got into the Democrats who voted for CAFTA. The facts were crystal clear. The total export market it created was limited to a combined GDP of around $35 billion (or $0.035 trillion). How could "opening their consumer markets" to American products possibly make any significant difference to our $13 trillion GDP? The workers in those countries don't have enough money to buy U.S. goods, even without tariffs on imports from the United States.

The real motivation was that the combined populations of those countries provides 50-60 million readily exploitable workers. CAFTA's passage made that labor pool available to Corporate America. Corporate America even insisted that the CAFTA countries disallow any labor regulations or minimum wage requirements. Gee, I wonder why that was?

unlawflcombatnt

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The economy needs balance between the "means of production" & "means of consumption."

[PsycheCC]

6. I think what got into those Democrats was a lot of pork. Bush said

pretty openly, if I recall correctly, that he was prepared to open the coffers to get this thing done. They sold us out. I watched it that night too. Made me want to move to Canada.