Why the Colombia Free Trade Agreement Will Benefit America
Three reasons the Colombia Free Trade Agreement will benefit America:
1) Grow the U.S. economy by opening up a market of 40 million people in Colombia to buy U.S. goods and services.
2) Create U.S. jobs when American businesses expand to capitalize on the demand from Colombia’s growing population.
3) Protect America by securing an alliance with our strongest ally in South America and stopping the spread of Hugo Chavez’s socialism.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/wm1890.cfm
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Bullshit!
"This agreement will be good for America and Colombians for three reasons" (:29) Bullshit it's just for US benefit
Will it benefit the Columbian people? Not the rich, I mean the AVERAGE to poor Colombian person. Will it benefit them? Or is America just preying on more innocent so that a few greedy jerks can get rich. Because average Americans sure are not benefiting off of this crap.
free trade forces companies to pursue the lowest common denominator of behavior, Increases reliance on fossil fuels and generally suppresses wages of rich and poor nations. Support FAIR TRADE Try to buy Local and buy used. Try to Reject predatory capitalism.
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your are right about what you said, but one of the biggest marketing in colombia that are suffering for not having an free trade with the us are the AUTO COMPANIES.
If congress approves free trade with colombia every american car would cost about halve the money we are paying right now.
and this is just one of many things free trade can help the colombian economy.
Get a clue, dumbass! They won't buy U.S. goods and services because, first of all, we don't make a whole lot of goods in this country anymore and they can't afford to buy what goods we still do make or our services. The only thing this trade agreement will do is the same thing every other dumbass trade agreement our govt. has passed and that is take more U.S. jobs away and help finish off what's left of our manufacturing sector.
Don't believe this man. He is part of the agenda. Columbia would raise our economy momentarily until we fail to come to an agreement with them through this system. We need a larger export rate and a smaller import rate, and to start working in our best industries. Corporate greed and sweatshops don't help us, they destroy us in the long run. What is this guy smoking?
Jada54, Support proof on what you say… I'm Colombian. Explain yourself if you know what are you talking about. Most messed up country? what exactly do you mean? Do you even know where its located? Do a little Research first, are you a trucker?
This guy is conflating free-trade with U.S. companies sending U.S. manufacturing jobs to Colombia. How is this free-trade? CFTA is just a scheme to send more U.S. jobs to Colombia, a country that murders union workers, and runs sweat shops. Remember NAFTA? In Pennsylvania alone, 1,583 plants have been closed. Count to a thousand then multiply that by the suffering of American families. America first–not gangster corporations.
This guy is stupid. Free trade often raises the price of domestic products. When the U.S. exports a commodity like lumber, the price of it goes up at home! This happens in Argentina which exports beef and wheat to the U.S. The price of beef and wheat goes up sharply for the average Argentine! Only protectionism works. It is a proven fact. Not only does it create many high paying jobs, it also increases exports! This has been proven by Paul Bairoch the eminent economic historian.
Any college student who kept awake during economics 101 is familiar with the Stolper and Samuelson theorem (1941) that essentially says wage rates for unskilled labor will decline under free trade just as the profit rates for capital will increase. So if you are wondering where all the manufacturing went and why a handful of Americans are filthy rich, well, there you have the answer. It is free trade. So what does this free-traitor want? More free trade!
Let us see. The American government sends money, in the order of tens to hundreds of millions, to help fight drug crops.
In the meantime, the American people sends money, in the order of tens to hundreds of billions, to pay for drugs and to increase drug crops. You are right. America should stop sending this "aid".
Oh and a lot of the aid sent is spent on US contractors and is matched dollar by dollar by the Colombian government.
Now JIM OR JAMES ROBERTS HAS A VAGINA! ITS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA AND NEITHER IS HE! HE AGENDA HAS NEVER PUT AMERICA OR Americans FIRST! THE "Americans" ARE THE ASSHOLES AND THEY CAN HAVE A OPINION! HAVE YOU NOTICED YOUR NOT ALLOW TO HAVE THAT ANYMORE EITHER!!!!!!!!!
We need to export our liberals.
1. Free trade, as was done in Nafta, has made America richer by allowing it's economy to devote more people to skilled labor, that has greater value added.
2. It is true GDP per person in Colombia is far smaller and available dollars for consumption are far fewer, but there are more than 40 million Colombians (not Columbians),30 million of them above the poverty line.
3. It is a bad message to send at this time, that the US does not stand by their allies, the few they still have.
Great! This says it all. This FTA will benefit American economy, while in Colombia de poor will be poorer.