Thread: LET THE PEOPLE KNOW

AMERICANS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
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January 18th, 2008

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTION YOU MUST TAKE, PASS THIS ON, AND GET THE WORD OUT. LET THE PEOPLE KNOW. THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY DEPEMDS ON US.
SEND LETTERS E-MAIL OR FAXSES TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND THE CANDIDATES, THESE ISSUES WILL BANKRUPT OUR COUNTRY.

Dear friends:

This economic recession is the result of Free trade agreements, outsourcing Americans jobs, Illegal Immigration and the Iraq war,
The US Department of commerce report that the trade deficit or gap between what the United States sells abroad and what it imports, reached a new high of $763.3 billion last year, a 6.5 percent increase over the year before. The deficit was fueled by the continuing American need for foreign oil and imports of consumer goods from China and other countries.
The record trade deficit is not surprise; since we signed the NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO trade agreements we have nothing but deficits, from 379.5 Billions in 2000 to 763.3 in 2007 an increase of 101.13 %. Thanks’ to President Bush, his father and Former President Bill Clinton, we are in this economic mess. Trade is certainly one of the most significant causes, because it hurts workers in several ways. First, the steady growth in our trade deficits over the past two decades has eliminated millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs, this growing trade deficits eliminate good jobs and reduce average wages in the economy. Since then, many more jobs have been lost to NAFTA, CAFTA and other sources of our trade problems, including China, and recently, Europe.
Clinton promised that "NAFTA will create 200,000 good paying American jobs in the first two years of its effect" and "a million jobs in the first five years of its impact." Of course, this did not happen, but our elected officials continue on the path to slave the American working class by siding with Bush foreign trade policy.
Illegal Immigration, hurts our economic, last year Latin American migrants in the U.S. transferred $53 billion to $55 billion to their native countries, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. About $20 billion went to Mexico, $12 billion to Central America and the Dominican Republic, and the rest to South American countries. Remittances sent by Mexicans topped $26 billion on 2007, 3 percent higher than the amount sent in 2006, according to Mexico's central bank, this year's annual figure hit a new record. Savings scraped together by nannies, painters and others working in the USA are now Mexico's second-largest source of foreign revenue, after oil exports and ahead of tourism.
Since the Federal Reserve launched the program Directo a Mexico, 150 U.S. financial institutions have enrolled. While most Mexicans continue to avoid banks, consumers using the program seem happy with it. Julian Gimenez, who works for a landscaping company in Milwaukee, for years, had sent money to his wife, Catalina, in Jalisco, Mexico, through a wire-transfer company in his Latino neighborhood. Now, Mr. Gimenez uses Mitchell Bank. "It's cheaper to send the money and it arrives faster than any other place," he says. So here we have our own Federal Reserve Bank helping undermine our economic. Most significant is the cost of social services. Total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS YEAR.

The Iraq war estimated cost could be $2 trillion amount takes a 'moderate' approach, this figures is based on the projection that US troops will remain in Iraq until 2010, with steadily decreasing numbers each year. The economists also used government data from past wars, and included such costs as the rise in the price of oil, a larger US deficit and greater global insecurity caused by the war, the loss to the economy from injured veterans who cannot contribute as productively as they would have done if not injured, and the increased costs of recruiting to replenish a military drained by repeated tours of duty in Iraq. These are items which are almost never included by the US government when determining the cost of the war.

Senator, I ask you to represent the American people and stop this madness our Trade policy, Bush open border and the Iraq war will bankrupt our country and will slave the American people for generations.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Juan Reynoso
voteforamerica@hotmail.com

After all of this Bull S--- talk about how much they the illegals contribute to the economy. They don't give as much as they take or in the case of our government, as much as they are given. It is so sad to see how our own government has sold us out for the sake of big business and the Mexican government.