Colombia Free Trade Agreement Letter

This video accompanies a letter (available at http://www.usleap.org/node/512) to Senators Durbin and Obama regarding the pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Colombia. The letter was signed by 30 Illinois organizations who oppose the trade agreement.

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• trade
• Colombia
• FTA
• Durbin
• Obama
• Illinois
• Chicago
• Trade
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[darksideofthenation]

Yes, i think many latin american people would rather work with the Venezuelan economy than the U.S government.

[darksideofthenation]

Thank you for making this video. I hope you will keep and like my video response.

[benjamaiLL]

And yet NAFTA was signed into law by a Democrat....

Anybody that has taken economics knows of the powers of comparative advantage and knows how flawed your dysfunctional schema is. All free trade does is give us access to better resources that lower the cost of goods.  Just like when farm machinery destroyed farm jobs, just like when robotics destroyed manufacturing jobs, just like how the telegraph destroyed couriers' jobs, free trade destroys jobs, and I am glad it does.

[benhur55]

These people obviously have their Union interests at heart not the best interests of America.

Just like with the Teacher's Union. Why do you all think our public education system sucks despite the fact we throw so much money at it?

[green3yes]

I dont understand why people have the assumption that Colombia is poor. Colombia is one of the most educated countries in the world. Most people in Colombia are professionals with traditional Family values thats well respected.(teenagers would not get pregnant). I say let it be up to the Colombians on what they feel is best for their country.

[dianitapilla]

WHHAT?!?!?!?!?!?! improvements in economy does not mens that poor people is better, the best example for that is brazil... and the fact that we create companies in colombia with jobs for people deosn't means that the workers are gonna have a better life. The country has a very unfair wellness share(?) and create multinacional companies will only mean that the guys that could create them (the rich) will become richer, but the workers will countinue living the rate race they are living now.

[mujaku]

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 do the Republicans want? More free trade!

[ikekll]

rjshmo,

Gawd they sure do, let's ship the dark-skinners out! Got any COLOMBIAN reaf, man?

Oh yeah!

[rjshmo]

They all look so liberal, like they are trying too hard. I guess Columbia wants to stay poor forever.

[ikekll]

andresfusion, sorry-but your'e full of shet!

FT with Colombia will only benefit GE and the corporate horz. Just ask Morris Busby!