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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[mbmart2005]

WOW if this guy is for real I am sure he is on drugs.Those are the same 3 reasons for NAFTA back in the 90's.

1.GROW ECONOMY FOR THE CORPORATIONS

2.CREATE JOBS IN COMLOMBIA AS SLAVES FOR THE COPORATIONS,HERE ALL THE REMAINING MANUFACTURING WILL GO

3.PROTECT FROM WHO? CHAVEZ IS NOT GOING TO ATTACK HE DOES NOT HAVE THE ARMY OR $ AGAIN PUTTIG FEAR IN THE AMERICANS

SOCIALISM =A community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. THE OPPOSITE OF CAPITALISM.

[mujaku]

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.

[intuitiveexplorer]

Free trade agreement with Columbia? Does this mean they will send more cocaine here?

[youfja]

Free Trade, Americans are selling out

It's so sad.

[bridgettedunn]

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.

[JhoffaX]

Oh, it's those idiots from Heritage again..

Look, this is nothing but a front group. Just like Santelli's rant was BS astroturfing and the Wash Times is a propaganda front started with Moonie money, their information is next to worthless.

Like Rush Limbaugh (Another paid front man and shill. sort of a super sized Armstrong Williams or Judith Miller) they'll give you HALF the story. Their half.

Like any group of highly paid, professional manipulators- Take it with a with a grain of salt.

[MasterPervy123]

Oye Gringos Retardados Hijos de Puta anda a estos videos en you tube sobre el TLC o us free trade que el hijo de puta de alan garcia suporta el tlc que es una mentira.

Free trade is a LIE.

Peru Free Trade Scam

No al TLC- No to the FTA with Peru

NAFTA: Ten Years of Broken Promises

THE CORRUPT UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - PART 1-14

TLC? Solo Mentiras

Senador dice las verdades del TLC - NAFTA fue un FRACASO

[AznSensation90]

Disagreed. Free trade forces companies to re-inovate themselves to compete in a global level against foriegn companies. And this colombian free trae agreement has pontential, it can help the American manufacturing/exporting sector of the economy.

[ronII1974]

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.

[louiethegreater]

One must themselves the question; is it the responsability of the American Middleclass to build consumer markets for Multinational Corperations?

The Heritage Foundation, is nothing more than a Washington lapp dog. Political Internationalism is the hidden motive behind most of these think tanks, not Free Trade based on business and finance.

[ocifuen]

Juanda609

In fact we already assemble some of those car brands here and the prices are not so bad, we need to focus more is on prosperity for the people so they can buy them more easily; we have the resources but the money is not flowing into the hands that really need them. So the Auto INC thing doesnt convince anybody We ALL need fair trade, no free trade.