CAFTA BILL PASSED

[Jae iLL]

http://alternet.org/story/23788/

The Central-American Dominican-Republic United States Free Trade act was passed yesterday.

At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time, the count was 180 to 175 against CAFTA, so the Republican leadership kept the vote open for over an hour, in order to bully legislators into approving the bill. In the final tally, which was 217 to 215, a full 15 Democrats voted in favor of big business by supporting CAFTA, while 25 Republicans defied the Bush Administration and voted against it. The full roll call vote is available here.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

a full 15 Democrats voted in favor of big business by supporting CAFTA

This is just another example of the failure of the Democratic party and illustrates that they do not now, nor did they ever, represent the people and only obey to big business and remain loyal opponents to the Republicans.

 

[45Yr Old Virgin]

the NAFTA isn't real free trade, us in Canada still got issues getting things in/out to canada with y'all.

 

[Jae iLL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFTA some more info on CAFTA

CAFTA is 2,400 pages long... why do you need 2,400 pages to eliminate tariffs and regulations on exports and imports? How long would it take to read through the whole "agreement" (because it can't legally be a treatise)? I wonder if any member of Congress has even read the agreement in its entirety.