Governors of the states and CAFTA

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:Oh ... AFTA&hl=en


19 states approved CAFTA -- far from the 2/3rds needed

States That Rescinded Commitments to CAFTA’s Procurement Rules

Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (D)
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Maine Governor John Baldacci (D)
Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich (R) (SB 401 rescinding Maryland’s commitment passed over Governor’s veto April 2005)
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R)
Missouri Governor Bob Holden (D) (2004)/Governor Matt Blunt (R) (2005)
New HampshireGovernor Craig Benson (R) (2004)/Governor John Lynch (D) (2005)
OregonGovernor Ted Kulongoski (D)
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D)

States That Declined to Commit to CAFTA’s Procurement Rules

AlabamaGovernor Bob Riley (R)
AlaskaGovernor Frank Murkowski (R) A
rizonaGovernor Janet Napolitano (D)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue (R)
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D)
Indiana Governor Joe Kernan (D) (2004)/Governor Mitch Daniels (R) (2005)
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R)
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D)
Montana Governor Judy Martz (R) (2004)/Governor Brian Schweitzer (D) (2005)
NevadaGovernor Kenny Guinn (R)
New JerseyGovernor James E. McGreevey (D) (2004)/Governor Richard Codey (D)
New MexicoGovernor Bill Richardson (D)
North Carolina Governor Michael F. Easley (D)
North DakotaGovernor John Hoeven (R)
OhioGovernor Bob Taft (R)
OklahomaGovernor Brad Henry (D)
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R)
TennesseeGovernor Phil Bredesen (D)
Virginia Governor Mark Warner (D)
West VirginiaGovernor Bob Wise (D) (2004)/Governor Joe Manchin III (D) (2005)
WisconsinGovernor Jim Doyle (D)

States Currently Bound by CAFTA’s Procurement Rules

Arkansas Governor Michael Huckabee (R)
Colorado Governor Bill Owens (R)
Connecticut Governor John Rowland (R) (2004)/Governor M. Jodi Rell (R) (2005)
Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner (D)
Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R)
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle (R)
Idaho Governor Dick Kempthorne (R)
Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher (R)
Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco (D)
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R)
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman (R)
New YorkGovernor George Pataki (R)
Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri (R)
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R)
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R)
Utah Governor Olene Walker (R) (2004)/Governor Jon Huntsman (R) (2005)
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas (R)
Washington Governor Gary Locke (D) (2004)/Governor Christine Gregoire (D) (2005)
Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal (D) Updated 5/16/05

Yes, they didnt get the 2/3 rds support but thanks to the illegal TPA Bush signedthey are going to push it through unless it is challenged with someone with big $




Fact Sheet
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Washington, DC
August 23, 2002

Trade Promotion Authority

On August 6, 2002, President Bush signed the Trade Act of 2002. The Act gives the President Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), under which future international trade agreements will be subject to an up-or-down vote, but not amendment, in Congress.

TPA will promote freer trade by giving other countries confidence that the agreements they negotiate with the United States will not be subject to subsequent renegotiation.

TPA will bring important economic benefits to the United States and its trading partners. This authority will be used to implement trade agreements that will encourage trade and investment, including in environmental goods and services.

Increased trade is a proven strategy for building global prosperity and adding to the momentum of political freedom. Trade is an engine of economic growth. It uses the power of markets to meet the needs of the poor.

History shows that as nations become more prosperous, their citizens will demand, and can afford, a cleaner environment. Greater freedom for commerce across borders eventually leads to greater freedom for citizens within the borders.

Trade gives all nations the hope of sharing in the great economic, and social, and political progress of our age.

The Bush Administration intends to complete ongoing negotiations on Free Trade Agreements with Singapore and Chile and to initiate new negotiations with other trading partners, including Morocco and the governments of Central America. Each of the agreements that qualifies for implementation under TPA will be subject to environmental and labor reviews and will include commitments intended to ensure that trade, environment, and labor policies are mutually supportive.

http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/fs/2002/12953.htm

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Yes, they didnt get the 2/3 rds support but thanks to the illegal TPA Bush signed they are going to push it through unless it is challenged with someone with big $

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I know, but I thought it might be helpful to know who our allies are . . . the governors that didn't support CAFTA, could, if they were willing, overturn it

Perhaps that could be a solution. Strange, most of those who accepted this treaty are from Northern States....Just an observation.

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Perhaps that could be a solution. Strange, most of those who accepted this treaty are from Northern States....Just an observation.

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I was disappointed to see so many southern states support it -- Florida wasn't a surprise though

I am pleased to see NORTH CAROLINA declined the procurement rules.

Sad though that it doesn't matter any more. They were BUSHWHACKED!!

JP--I sent you a PM but it's still in the Outbox. Can you check to see if something is wrong with my message system? There are several there from several days ago. My sentbox was full, I've cleaned it out, so maybe that was the problem? Anyway, wanted you to know I responded.

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History shows that as nations become more prosperous, their citizens will demand, and can afford, a cleaner environment. Greater freedom for commerce across borders eventually leads to greater freedom for citizens within the borders.

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Right...so I guess their theory about citizens demanding and being able to afford a "cleaner environment" doesn't apply to the USA? I believe the USA was the ONLY country not to sign the Kyoto Protocol because our industry couldn't afford to comply and our prosperous citizens did not think it was necessary.

Right....so this greater freedom of commerce across borders eventually leaders to greater freedom for citizens within the borders "theory" worked well for Mexico and their 1,500,000 farmers who lost their land, their livelihood, their homes and because of the new poverty caused by NAFTA were forced to migrate to the United States and steal our jobs, our livelihoods, and our country.

Right...NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM PROVEN TRUTH than this PACK OF LIES!!

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AND when you bankrupt a local farmer in another country with your TPA, you bankupt the farmer's entire family and extended family. So if NAFTA affected 1,500,000 Farmers, that affected the Farmer, the Farmer's Wife, the Farmer's 10 children, and the Farmer and the Farmer's Wife's elderly parents...so that's about 16 people minimum per farm so wow...that's alot of bankrupt people isn't it? That's 24,000,000 people in Mexico impoverished by NAFTA who are now here in the USA impoverishing American Citizens.

TPA - Bankrupt Locals in Foreign Trade Partner Nations

TPA = Migration to US to Bankrupt Local American Citizens.

Really, they should change the name to what it really is:

PPA = Poverty Promotion Authority.

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I am saving my money as much as I can right now. I see this country basically becoming communist allready. Bush is wanting for us to have two social classes- rich and poor. On Lou Dobbs friday night, his substitute gave us good look at the new jobs he claims have been created. Of course it was softened by saying jobs have only increased among college/high school students and blacks and minorities. I am sorry, but here in Mass, at the Pizzeria Uno I worked at, the only blacks I saw were either brazillian, dominican, cape verdian or haitian. All most of those low end employers will accept a passport as i.d. or legal verification and don't even check

Good to hear you are saving Sonali!! That is power you will gain for yourself. I hope everyone follows suit.

DON'T SPEND, SAVE!!

I'm sorry I missed Lou Dobbs on Friday!! Darn, that sounds like it was a good program.

Lou Dobbs WAS good Friday night and I saw the segment you were talking about, sonali. It described the jobs that WERE created as the "service jobs" such as restaurants, cashiers in grocery and department stores and that general type of job that is historically a low-paying segment of the job market. The jobs that were LOST were the higher paying manufacturing jobs and the technology jobs. These unemployment numbers are VERY deceptive. All they are looking at is the number of jobs that people have been FORCED to accept because they will STARVE if they don't take SOME type of job.

These jobs that have been created are jobs that are low-paying, no benefit jobs that these people have had to accept because their jobs that paid well and provided health care and retirement benefits have been outsourced. Why don't they break down these numbers into the TYPES of jobs that have been filled as compared with the TYPES of jobs that have been LOST????

As it is, most of the customer service jobs at hotels, restaurants, etc are done by South Americans because they have more motivation. MOst who come here allready know english-well, not peru, colombia, as well as other benedict arnold easily brainwashed latin american nations. I know my dad learned many languages as a merchant marine. He used to have his grandkids call him NONO - italian for Grandpa. It is sad, but when I was a waitress at Unos, I always said Ciao for goodbye in proper euro spanish. In italian it is hello. In most of South america it is goodbye amongst the educated. The word was originally Spanish. I have never said Adios in my life and probably never will. Mexicans frown when I have done this but then again at the time, they depended on me to interpret for them. I wish I knew then what I know now...restaurant managers accept passport as i.d. and for work eligibility in the U.S. I am not sure if that is legal or not. I know that is how brazilians come here to work. As it is all of the bilinguals in my bank never want to give me money because my last name is Alfaro and I am white as hell. They ask me sometimes for rediculous id however, the illegals have to hardly come up with anything. All they have to do is show their "pity poor dirt impoverished, uneducated , I am too old to learn english rhetoric. Even up here they do it. Especially, when I tell them I prefer english and have all proper i.d. They figure out I am educated and they cannot solicit illegal money laundering tips(bank account info in Switzerland with bribery for them)
and when they start with, "Buenos Dias Senora,...I say, we would be better off in English because I cannot understand Mexican and dont wish to be talked to like one. Then I would say, "Este es Los Estados Unidos, si?
e siesque requerda correctement, el idioma es englis, si? meaning, what country is this? Isn't the language english here. They get the idea. The mexican banks are corrupt. Anyway. back to jobs. Waitress jobs are filled by college/hoochie looking foreigners, fast food is merely being filled by illegal hispanics whose managers know they can screw them on labor. McDonalds is one of the worst at it. That was my first job and could not understand why I had to speak slow, two syllable spanish for social reasons in work. Oh, they can read slips)illegal cooks) but can't hear or speak english. They blame mistakes on orders by claiming the printer did not work or they did not understand me etc.BS.

You are AMAZING, sonali! More power to you! If EVERY IMMIGRANT who came to our country had your courage and determination, we would be a MUCH better country. I can just HEAR you telling the bank teller that you want to communicate in ENGLISH!! I bet that was a SHOCK! Could the teller even speak English????

You keep it up because it is people like you who have historically made this country great. You should be very proud of yourself for assimilating and you will go far.

No, the bank tellers were mexican and speaking to me in mexican spanish which I don't understand nor do I have the patience for because they speak too slow. NOt only that, but to me it is kind of racist and /or a form of racial profiling for latin american banks with mainly mexican employees to assume everyone understands/speaks that dialect and/or should. Mexicans used to tell us all the time when we tried explaining to them we spoke spanish from spain. They would say, "Ah, thats old spanish. NOone talks like that." Whenever I have interpretted out of the goodness of my heart for mexicans, they try correcting me by using and/or replacing/ mexican words in place of proper spanish words -basically trying to teach me to speak mexican. I let them know right away, "Look, I don't mind helping you out occassionally but I speak castillian spanish and I dont want you trying to teach me Mexican. I am not a mexican. They think all latin people should cater to them and learn their dialect.

I have always heard that the Castillian form of Spanish is the language of the upper classes in Spain! ALWAYS! And that was LONG before illegal immigration even appeared on the radar screen. It was just something that I always heard in reference to the language of Spain.

So all the "new jobs" are going to illegals in the "service" sector which is hotels, motels, restaurants, etc.

Hmmm. SO if we don't travel or take vacations that involve hotels, motels and restaurants, then we could DRAIN THEIR PURSES!! :D :D

Hmmm. SO if we cook and don't eat out or reduce it by alot, then we cold DRAIN THEIR PURSUES!! :D :D :D

DON'T SPEND, SAVE!!

(When you spend now, all you're doing is feeding China dollars or feeding Employers of Illegal Aliens).

DON'T SPEND, SAVE!!

Don't underwrite the very illegal practices we're trying to stop.

KEEP YOUR MONEY IN YOUR PURSE, DRAIN THEIRS!!

It won't take that long, believe me!!

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