LIE OF THE WEEK: 06-13-2008
Vice President Cheney on NAFTA:
"Some politicians seem determined to unravel the bipartisan consensus on free trade -- a consensus epitomized by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In a time when even NAFTA is being called into doubt -- when candidates can draw cheers by denouncing trade deals with our next-door neighbors -- then we're at risk of going down a very destructive path."
THE TRUTH: We are already on a very destructive path, thanks to the policies of President Clinton, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. America is on the precipice of becoming a third-world country as middle class jobs are uncompetitively outsourced to non-democratic countries without any worker rights (or even civil or human rights). The middle class is left working at service jobs that can hardly pay for today's gas prices, let alone a living wage. No one is complaining about our trade with Canada other than one simple problem of taxypayer-provided healthcare being non-competitive with our obscenely high healthcare costs (thanks to the abuses of the insurance and drug companies) which can be easily fixed with enough political will. The problems are really on the Mexican side in terms of the flow of illegal labor causing an overall lowering of American wages, the lack of worker rights in Mexico leading to massive abuse in sweatshops, smuggling, and the lack of a proper civil society that is needed for appropriate trade protections. Vice President Cheney has been the single most influential vice president in American history and he has also been the worst vice president in American as he has driven this administration towards corporate-lobby corrupted policies that benefit his contributors and not the American people.
"Some politicians seem determined to unravel the bipartisan consensus on free trade -- a consensus epitomized by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In a time when even NAFTA is being called into doubt -- when candidates can draw cheers by denouncing trade deals with our next-door neighbors -- then we're at risk of going down a very destructive path."
THE TRUTH: We are already on a very destructive path, thanks to the policies of President Clinton, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. America is on the precipice of becoming a third-world country as middle class jobs are uncompetitively outsourced to non-democratic countries without any worker rights (or even civil or human rights). The middle class is left working at service jobs that can hardly pay for today's gas prices, let alone a living wage. No one is complaining about our trade with Canada other than one simple problem of taxypayer-provided healthcare being non-competitive with our obscenely high healthcare costs (thanks to the abuses of the insurance and drug companies) which can be easily fixed with enough political will. The problems are really on the Mexican side in terms of the flow of illegal labor causing an overall lowering of American wages, the lack of worker rights in Mexico leading to massive abuse in sweatshops, smuggling, and the lack of a proper civil society that is needed for appropriate trade protections. Vice President Cheney has been the single most influential vice president in American history and he has also been the worst vice president in American as he has driven this administration towards corporate-lobby corrupted policies that benefit his contributors and not the American people.
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