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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (687968)	6/28/2005 2:39:03 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well......then you know that even with a paper trial the process is flawed? Does Provisional ballot ring a bell? I don't have all the answers Mark, I'm just trying to come to a reasonable understanding, and so far I'm thinking that people in a position to affect outcomes are biased and corrupt. Somehow that situation has got to be rectified. And at this point we only have the ballot box and the courts at our disposal. As for CAFTA.....I found this undeniably biased, but oozing with a large measure of truth, comment the other day. I strongly believe in free trade. What is fair about Americans paying tariffs for goods to countries in Central America while they get a free pass? Of course I'm not looking at it from the perspective of trade unions. Perhaps you are? I guess it all depends on who resides in the White house.....not. NAFTA was just all good and wonderful when Clinton was in office. Point out to me the difference between the two and I'll be glad to listen. M What Do You Mean 'We,' Mon Ami? The New York Times' Thomas Friedman had a curious column the other day (ellipses in original) Lordy, it is fun poking fun at France. But wait . . . wait . . . what is that noise I hear coming from the U.S. Congress? Is that . . . is that members of the U.S. Congress--many of them Democrats--threatening to reject CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement? Is that members of the U.S. Congress afraid to endorse a free-trade agreement, signed over a year ago, with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic? Mon Dieu! I am afraid it is. And for many of the same reasons France has resisted more integration: a protectionist fear of competition in a world without walls. Yes, we are all Frenchmen now. Shouldn't that read, "Democrats are all Frenchmen now?"