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The WiscoTrader
Providing Fair Trade News and Views You Won’t Find In Mainstream Media
July 14th, 2005 ~ Issue 15 ~ Big Brother Would be Proud.

Doublespeak originated from George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when pundits of the 1950’s combined the words doublethink with newspeak.

The propaganda of Doublespeak occurs when a Government says one thing and means just the opposite. Under this Rovian tactic, if a government lie is told often enough, with confidence, from authority, the masses will ultimately accept it as truth. For example, in “1984�, when Big Brother and the Administration says PEACE they mean WAR, when they say LOVE they mean HATE, and when they say FREEDOM they mean SLAVERY.

Today, when the Administration says trade is FREE, they mean at a COST.

The Administration’s trade propaganda would make Big Brother proud. The CAFTA debate abounds with deliberate reversals of fact. FREE TRADE will actually COST us millions of jobs, hurt our economy, pollute our environment, and take away local control.

To show this high cost of FREE TRADE, we’ve put together a Top Ten List you’ll never see on Dave Letterman: Trade Doublespeak.

#10 Doublespeak: Our Trade Deficit Actually Shows How Strong The Economy Is. Yes, some people actually say this. It’s a lot like arguing that the more you go into debt, the richer you really are. Warren Buffet notes the absurdity of this statement, adding "Americans end up owning a reduced portion of our country while non-Americans own a greater part. This force-feeding of American wealth to the rest of the world is now proceeding at the rate of $1.8 Billion daily.� It already happened with NAFTA. Our trade deficit with those countries is 12 times bigger than before NAFTA -- it shot up from $9 billion in 1993 to $111 billion last year. A high trade deficit weakens our economy.

#9 Doublespeak: CAFTA Slows Immigration. This same false promise was made under NAFTA, and we all witnessed the opposite result of increased immigration from Mexico. CAFTA has back-door provisions that dictate our U.S. immigration laws and visa requirements may be in violation of the agreement, and unenforceable. CAFTA also increases legal immigration, as any foreign company wishing to come into the United States can also bring in employees from the country of origin.

#8 Doublespeak: CAFTA Opens A Substantial Market for U.S. Goods. Central America has some of the poorest countries in the world, and the aggregate economy of the six CAFTA nations is minuscule. "Add up the six CAFTA economies and you get a market the size of New Haven, Connecticut," points out trade analyst Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business and Industry Council. Tonelson concludes that CAFTA is a "classic outsourcing agreement" â€â€