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    Congress Screws America Again

    Congress Screws America Again
    by Jim Palmer of ALIPAC

    Oman Free Trade Deal Passes
    Friday July 21, 2006

    Free trade with the Middle East sounds good in theory. The United States of America gains some much needed political support in the Middle East and they in return get to buy more American Products and we get to sell more American products. The tariffs are lifted and all is happy.

    That would be a simple and utopian ideal of a Fair Trade Agreement but the Oman not to be confused with Omen which sounds eerily close and may not have much of a difference in definition when you consider the problems with the Oman Free Trade Agreement (OFTA).

    A little research on the net and it is easy to find some of the problems with OFTA. According to Democracy for New HampshireOFTA has the following problems:

    OFTA is worse than NAFTA and CAFTA in two ways. First, it restricts access to medicines for national health emergencies, such as HIV/AIDS, even more severely than CAFTA does.

    Additionally, it goes even further than NAFTA and CAFTA in explicitly giving foreign investors the right to challenge virtually any U.S. government decision about a federal contract, lease or concession agreement. Areas covered include natural resource contracts (including exploration, extraction, refining, transportation, distribution, or sale); services contracts (including power generation or distribution, water treatment or distribution, or telecommunication); and infrastructure projects (including construction of roads, bridges, canals, dams, or pipelines).

    Under such rules, the United States would have had to pay Dubai Ports World millions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars for cancelling that company’s contract to run U.S. ports.

    That’s right your members of Congress voted to make you pay for wanting to have secure ports and not have potential terrorists running them. They have in essence given control of our nation’s infrastructure to foreign entities.

    The New American goes even further in explaining some of the problems with OFTA:
    • The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens American jobs. For example, AMTAC (American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition) states that the agreement includes a ridiculously large tariff preference level (TPL) of 50 million square meters of textiles annually for 10 years, which will mean that Chinese yarns and fabrics will be shipped to Oman, cut and sewn into garments and then exported duty-free to the U.S.

    • The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens national security. . As reported on the Lou Dobbs Tonight show of June 28, "Under the Oman free trade agreement, foreign port operators would have a right, an absolute trade agreement right, to establish operations, to acquire, to operate, to run port facilities within the U.S." Under the "Cross Border Trade in Services" chapter of the U.S.-Oman FTA, a Dubai Ports World-type enterprise could acquire a company in Oman, and then operate U.S. ports through that company.

    • The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens our national independence. . Just as a European-wide free trade agreement has led to the loss of sovereignty of European nations to the European Union, and just as NAFTA (North American Free Trade Area) is now being converted into a sovereignty-destroying North American Union through the creation last year of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, the U.S.-Oman FTA is designed to help bring about a Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA), which would be another sovereignty-destroying, supranational organization to which the U.S. would belong.

    OFTA is also said not to be much help in the regulation of labor, meaning that those who do the work to produce the products can be mistreated and underpaid and be refused access to medications. It is reminiscent of slavery or perhaps the medieval times when the Kings, Lords and Barons controlled the wealth while the peasants worked to pay their taxes and a meager portion food while living on land they could not own.

    Of course we don’t have to worry about that here; this is The United States of America. Oh but wait, we just signed away more of our Authority, our Sovereignty and our National Security.

    Not surprisingly most of those who supported the Central Free trade Agreement (CAFTA) also supported the Oman FTA even further back most of those who supported CAFTA also supported North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). You can see how your Congressional Representative voted at www.Congress.gov

    We have yet to see all the damage done by CAFTA, but I can tell you that since it has passed, it has been very difficult to find any textiles in the local Wal-Mart that doesn’t come from a CAFTA Country. Funny, how fast it has seemed to have taken place almost like everything was already in place before the deal even passed.

    I was happy to find some socks there made by Hanes that are Made in the USA, but even many of Hanes Products are made outside of the USA. The facts of NAFTA speak for themselves; between 1994 & 2004 the United StatesTextile and Garment Industry lost nearly 1 million jobs.

    The hardest pill for me to swallow is the logic of those who passed OFTA, CAFTA knowing what damage NAFTA had done and is still doing to our nation. At the same time those very people are all up in arms about the Illegal alien (immigration) debate.

    They say that we need to protect our borders, create stronger laws to prevent illegal alien criminals from crossing our borders; we need to impose and enforce penalties against employers who hire them, yet at the same time they give up our national sovereignty through Free Trade Agreements.

    These agreements will allow them to bring workers from their respective countries instead of hiring American Citizens. These agreements legalize the importation of more foreigners. It circumvents any immigration laws that are passed and basically erases our borders.

    It’s not all doom and gloom. We have some hope. The elections are in November. Be sure to see how your representative voted and then vote for them accordingly. Call them and email them and tell them to repeal this legislation and stop voting for more Trade Agreements until they can have balance. Tell them to stop destroying the United States of America.
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    The last thing we need is another free trade agreement. In fact we need to dump the ones we already have.

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    Funny, how fast it has seemed to have taken place almost like everything was already in place before the deal even passed.

    Yep William check out this legal brief and please explain why they continue to march forward creating yet more unconstitutional agreements.

    http://www.eagleforum.org/briefs/MexicanTruckBrief.pdf
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    They say that we need to protect our borders, create stronger laws to prevent illegal alien criminals from crossing our borders; we need to impose and enforce penalties against employers who hire them, yet at the same time they give up our national sovereignty through Free Trade Agreements.
    Treason by our lawBreakers.
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    For those who a little trouble navigating Thomas.
    U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session

    as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate


    Vote Summary

    Question: On Passage of the Bill (S.3569 )
    Vote Number: 190 Vote Date: June 29, 2006, 03:29 PM
    Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill Passed
    Measure Number: S. 3569 (United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act )
    Measure Title: A bill to implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement.
    Vote Counts: YEAs 60
    NAYs 34
    Not Voting 6
    Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State


    Alphabetical by Senator Name Akaka (D-HI), Nay
    Alexander (R-TN), Yea
    Allard (R-CO), Yea
    Allen (R-VA), Yea
    Baucus (D-MT), Yea
    Bayh (D-IN), Nay
    Bennett (R-UT), Yea
    Biden (D-DE), Nay
    Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
    Bond (R-MO), Yea
    Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
    Brownback (R-KS), Yea
    Bunning (R-KY), Yea
    Burns (R-MT), Yea
    Burr (R-NC), Nay
    Byrd (D-WV), Nay
    Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
    Carper (D-DE), Nay
    Chafee (R-RI), Not Voting
    Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
    Clinton (D-NY), Yea
    Coburn (R-OK), Nay
    Cochran (R-MS), Yea
    Coleman (R-MN), Yea
    Collins (R-ME), Nay
    Conrad (D-ND), Nay
    Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
    Craig (R-ID), Yea
    Crapo (R-ID), Yea
    Dayton (D-MN), Nay
    DeMint (R-SC), Yea
    DeWine (R-OH), Yea
    Dodd (D-CT), Nay
    Dole (R-NC), Nay
    Domenici (R-NM), Yea
    Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
    Durbin (D-IL), Nay
    Ensign (R-NV), Yea
    Enzi (R-WY), Yea
    Feingold (D-WI), Nay
    Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
    Frist (R-TN), Yea
    Graham (R-SC), Yea
    Grassley (R-IA), Yea
    Gregg (R-NH), Not Voting
    Hagel (R-NE), Yea
    Harkin (D-IA), Nay
    Hatch (R-UT), Yea
    Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
    Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
    Inouye (D-HI), Nay
    Isakson (R-GA), Yea
    Jeffords (I-VT), Yea
    Johnson (D-SD), Nay
    Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
    Kerry (D-MA), Yea
    Kohl (D-WI), Nay
    Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
    Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
    Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
    Leahy (D-VT), Not Voting
    Levin (D-MI), Nay
    Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
    Lincoln (D-AR), Nay
    Lott (R-MS), Yea
    Lugar (R-IN), Yea
    Martinez (R-FL), Yea
    McCain (R-AZ), Yea
    McConnell (R-KY), Yea
    Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
    Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
    Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
    Murray (D-WA), Not Voting
    Nelson (D-FL), Yea
    Nelson (D-NE), Yea
    Obama (D-IL), Yea
    Pryor (D-AR), Yea
    Reed (D-RI), Nay
    Reid (D-NV), Nay
    Roberts (R-KS), Yea
    Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
    Salazar (D-CO), Yea
    Santorum (R-PA), Yea
    Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay
    Schumer (D-NY), Nay
    Sessions (R-AL), Yea
    Shelby (R-AL), Yea
    Smith (R-OR), Yea
    Snowe (R-ME), Nay
    Specter (R-PA), Yea
    Stabenow (D-MI), Not Voting
    Stevens (R-AK), Yea
    Sununu (R-NH), Yea
    Talent (R-MO), Yea
    Thomas (R-WY), Yea
    Thune (R-SD), Yea
    Vitter (R-LA), Yea
    Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
    Warner (R-VA), Yea
    Wyden (D-OR), Nay
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    Well. They passed it legally. It must therefore be alright.
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    Legally? According to our Constitution.........our Congressmen and Senators and President........THEY WORK FOR US...........WE DO NOT WORK FOR THEM.

    Us being told about the fact AFTER THE FACT, doesn't get it.
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    Well. They passed it legally. It must therefore be alright.
    I hope you're being sarcastic!

    Once again. Treason. They are selling our country down the tubes.

    They are sworn to protect us!
    TIME'S UP!
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