NADA to CAFTA (and NAFTA)

Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:30 PM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

by Rob Sanchez
April 29, 2005 No. 1246

I had the privilege of being on the George Putnam show twice this week.
In the Los Angeles area Putnam has been a television and radio legend
for at least 40 years, and he continues to be one of the best radio
talk show hosts you will ever listen to. He is truly a LEGEND.

Yesterday Putnam and I talked about NAFTA and CAFTA. That conversation
inspired him to write the article below. I was stunned when he read
most of my recent newsletter about CAFTA right on the air. Before I
came on his show he treated his audience to a letter by Linda Evans
which I also included below.

I started the interview by making a wisecrack that George Putnam was
broadcasting from Mexico. If you don't get the joke, then you haven't
seen this billboard:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43973

Putnam's show can be listened to every M-F from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST.
His broadcast is on the air in Los Angeles on KCAA 1050 AM and is also
on in Chicago and several other cities - check your local listings. You
are always welcome to call him to add your comments and his call-in
number is listed online.

KCAA radio can be found online at:
http://www.kcaaradio.com/

You can get Putnam's show online at:
http://www.crni.net/

***** Both shows are archived online. *****

Listen to them at:
http://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/MediaClips.htm

(The streaming audio server is taking awhile to connect, so be patient
if you use RealAudio. Let me know if it takes over 45 seconds for you.)

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NAME: Linda Evans

I listened to George Putnam's Talk Back on Monday, 4/25, and
particularly enjoyed the segment with Rob Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez is a
true champion for the American worker.

American employers want cheap labor. The H-1B visa allows them to have
it. Like the majority of Americans, I used to believe it was illegal to
import cheaper labor on work visas to take American jobs. Then my
husband and his co-workers lost their computer programming jobs to
programmers brought in from India on work visas. The Americans had to
train their replacements in order to receive severance. We discovered
from the LCA sheets that the Indian programmers are earning about half
what the Americans had been earning.

At that time, I naively believed that our elected officials care about
this country and the American workers who made it great. After numerous
calls and letters to Washington, I admitted the sad truth--they've sold
us out to the highest bidder. They made the H-1B and the outsourcing
laws and, as long as the "campaign contributions" from American
corporate leaders keep pouring in, they're not about to change things.

So I wrote a satirical novel about tech workers losing their jobs to
cheaper imported labor. I used part of my husband's severance money to
publish the book.

You may not agree with the main character that American corporations
ought to value American workers. You may not agree with him that it is
unconscionable for American corporations to expect Americans to fight
and die in the U.S. military to protect business interests, when these
same businesses won't hire Americans. And you may not agree that he
should fight back after he loses his computer programming job to
cheaper imported labor.

But if you read the book, you will learn what it's like to lose your
job and everything you've ever worked for while you watch the managers
at your former company become richer than you ever thought it was
possible to be.

LC Evans

COMMENT FROM ROB: You can get more details on Linda's book at:
http://lcevans.com/

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/28/200411.shtml

One Reporter's Opinion - 'NADA' to CAFTA

George Putnam

Friday, April 29, 2005

It is this reporter's opinion that we should have listened to Sir James
Goldsmith, former member of the British Parliament and internationally
recognized economist, when he warned us of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the New World Order.
Sir James, speaking before our own Senate Commerce Committee hearings
on Nov. 15, 1994, stated that NAFTA, GATT, WTO and the New World Order
were the "most destructive proposal presented to the American people."
He based his statement on the experience of Europe - loss of jobs,
unemployment and a host of other attendant problems. But we wouldn't
listen.

A few critics argued that NAFTA would be bad for U.S. workers. Others
said it would hurt Mexican workers. But they were shouted down by the
proponents, who optimistically predicted that a rising tide of profits
and productivity would result. Look at the results today - north and
south - and you'll see that the benefits of NAFTA add up to NADA. But
the globalists will not give up.

On July 18, 1993, Council on Foreign Relations member and trilateralist
Henry Kissinger wrote: "With NAFTA, the U.S. creates a New World Order.
What Congress has before it is not a conventional trade agreement but
the architecture of a new international system. The trade agreement
with Mexico is the vital first step for a new kind of community of
nations, a first step toward THE NEW WORLD ORDER."

There you have it! In their own words: NAFTA is an important step in
the globalists' plan for a New World Order.

Now here we come with the Central American Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA). President Bush is obsessively pushing for CAFTA as an
enlargement of the ill-fated NAFTA. And now President Bush is urging
Hispanics to support CAFTA.

In a warning from my friend Rob Sanchez in the "Job Destruction
Newsletter" (April 2005), he states that Bush is appealing to the
Hispanic businessmen, the rich ruling elite of Mexico. Sanchez warns:
"NAFTA is a very bad deal, especially for Mexican farmers. ... NAFTA
was partly responsible for the massive economic problems in Mexico that
has left their impoverished farmers with no choice but to sneak across
our border in order to survive."

He believes Bush is unlikely to convince rank-and-file Hispanics to
support CAFTA because so many of them are victims of NAFTA.

But Bush's public relations ploy is a deliberate attempt to shift
attention away from the ones who will support CAFTA (the wealthy
families who control almost all of the wealth in Latin America, along
with the multinational corporations that want to exploit Central
America's chief labor pool).

To find out how NAFTA fuels the illegal invasion from Mexico, there's
no better authority than Philip Martin at the University of California,
Davis. He says: "CAFTA is a danger to our nation. If Congress approves
CAFTA, we will not only suffer massive job loss, our sovereignty will
be threatened."

NewsWeek Editor Fareed Zakaria explains why: "Unlike the United
Nations, the WTO can actually require that a country change its laws,
regulations and precedents - not simply national laws but often state
and local laws - that its rulings on disputes between nations are
binding. It is undemocratic and filled with technicrats."

Surprisingly, most members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and
others in the Hispanic community are either against or appear to be
leaning against CAFTA. "There are great concerns about how it will
affect the Latino community," says Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif.,
chairwoman of the 21-member caucus. Napolitano says she would vote
against CAFTA.

The administration would need at least 20 House Democratic votes to
pass the measure and faces some opposition from Republicans worried
about provisions related to sugar and textiles. Democrats cite
labor-related concerns. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., a member of the
caucus, has said, "CAFTA does little to protect workers' rights,
including the right to organize and collective bargaining." He says
that CAFTA would leave Central Americans vulnerable to exploitation and
drive down wages.

Napolitano's and Becerra's concerns are echoed elsewhere. But Bush is
obsessively pushing for CAFTA, an enlargement of the ill-fated NAFTA,
and the president is determined to press for a plan that would extend
amnesty to a million Mexican agricultural workers in the U.S., his
totalization agreement plan that would extend Social Security benefits
to Mexican workers, and his determination to reform Social Security -
all but ignoring our own No. 1 crisis: Medicare (with 50 million
Americans struggling without health protection).

David Bacon, a labor journalist and author of "The Children of NAFTA,"
says: "The Bush administration, not satisfied with the current economic
chaos under NAFTA, now hopes to establish a free trade area in the
Americas, which would export NAFTA's principles to Central and South
America and the Caribbean. But Bush may be in trouble. He has found, in
dealing with the trade ministers of Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, and
Venezuela, they are not willing to repeat our experiences with Mexico
and follow NAFTA's path to mass unemployment and poverty."

Has the president forgotten this nation's real priorities? As I said
before, concerning NAFTA and CAFTA, we should have listened to Sir
James Goldsmith. As for CAFTA and NAFTA - a great big NADA!

References:

Bacon, David. "The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico
Border," University of California Press (February 23, 2004)

Grigg, William Norman. "CAFTA implications for our Nation,"
http://www.stopcafta.com

Martin, Philip. "Mexico-US Migration,"
http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/nafta-migration.pdf

Martin, Philip. "Trade and Migration: NAFTA and Agriculture,"
http://bookstore.iie.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=73

Sanchez, Rob. "Job Destruction Newsletter," April 21, 2005, No. 1238,
http://www.zazona.com/contacts.htm

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