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I urge you to publicly denounce the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA) today. This job-killing trade deal is yet another example of the flawed trade policy of the Bush Administration. Fortunately, the Fast Track rules for this agreement were eliminated thanks to Speaker Pelosi and the U.S. House of Representatives. However, there has been talk of some horse-trading over this bill, whether it be for reformed Trade Adjustment Assistance or a new economic stimulus plan. Deals such as these in exchange for a vote in favor of the Colombia FTA are simply unacceptable.

I know that a lot has been said recently to “sugarcoat” this trade agreement and make it seem like the U.S. will profit greatly. However, the Colombia FTA is not a “fair” trade agreement, and it will not increase jobs for American workers. In fact, this deal just provides more incentives for American jobs to be outsourced to Colombia where the labor is cheaper and exploited. At a time when our economy is taking a serious hit and fuel and food prices are skyrocketing, Americans cannot afford to lose more good-paying jobs.

Proponents of the Colombia FTA also argue that tariffs on our exports will be considerably lowered. When you look at the facts though, it is obvious that our manufactured goods are not going to be bought up in any sort of appreciable amount. How could they when the only people able to afford these products, the Colombian middle class, make up a small fraction of the population?

It is true that U.S. agribusiness would benefit, but with some pretty adverse consequences. Colombian farmers will not be able to compete against our subsidized exports, possibly forcing them back into coca production and increasing Colombia’s drug trafficking problem.

Actually, the reality of the Colombia FTA, like previous FTAs, is that very little of this trade deal is about tariffs and market access. The Colombia FTA contains hundreds of pages of rules and giveaways to benefit the CEOs of the multinational corporations that are promoting passage of the FTA.

The one thing that cannot be “sugarcoated” no matter how you look at it is that the Colombia FTA would be rewarding a government that has done very little to bring justice to the over 2,500 trade unionists killed in the country since 1986. More than 50 members of Colombia’s Congress are currently in jail or being investigated due to ties with paramilitary death squads responsible for these killings, including President Alvaro Uribe’s own family member and political ally. One must wonder why this deal was even negotiated in the first place, and why human rights violations of this horrific caliber are being accepted as the collateral damage of a business deal.

Instead of trade agreements that destroy jobs, promote drug trafficking, and reward violence against workers, the American people deserve trade agreements that create jobs and hold other countries accountable for their actions. Please make your opposition to the Colombia FTA known today, and if it ever comes to the floor for a vote, please vote ‘NO’!

I personally don’t think Obama should hide from this. The American People need to realize to what extent their Country has acted on many occasions arrogant. We have done very great thing for the world and we have done some very bad things too. It is time we all realize that there are others in this world and what we do effects us all. I have traveled to many places in the world and I believe people are all just the same as us. We want health we want comfort, and we want our children to grow into a better world.

If Americans ever traveled the Mid East they would be shocked to find out how the average person lives there. Poor with no mobility, living in squaller, with the ruling classes oil money grinding them down on a daily basis. They see us as the reason their lives are in shambles because of our U.S. dollars supporting their Royal Families. Despair breeds desperation and disillusionment and that is how you get young Saudis to jump on a flight and fly themselves into buildings.

The great lie is, “they hate us for our freedom”, The right winger’s motto. They hate us for what we have done to their region is more the truth. We are blinded from this because as a population we have never been taught anything but the embellished good propaganda.

Did they ever teach you in school or anywhere else that if we would have had a choice to drop the Atomic Bomb on Germany or Japan Truman and his council agreed that the first choice would have been Japan. Why? Because they were not White. Truman felt the Japanese were subhuman and he felt Americans would not stand for the use of such a weapon on White Europeans. It was skin color that may have been the deciding factor. The Whites probably would have gotten a pass.

The American Indian wars raged in this country for many years. It was genocide pure and simple and economics is the only reason they were not wiped to extinction. When the bean counters in the Federal Government figured out it was costing over one million dollars per Indian life taken, the reservation became the chosen method to deal with the indigenous population. You see to man an army against them was just too costly. It was dollars nothing more, just money.

How about our polished covert work in South America in the 60’s and 70’s and Viet Nam in the same time frame. The Cuba population has been enslaved and made to live indeplorable conditions since the 60’s because we refuse to sit down and work things out with a country 60 miles from our boarder. The Cuban Americans became a voting block for the Republicans and tool to be used.

I will not speak to our current situation abroad, but I can almost bet 40 years from now this story will in noway resemble or even recognizable when it comes to the facts. The effort to rewrite this period of history has been underway since it began. If we continue the mind set that we are currently engaged in, your grandchildren will never be taught what really is happening now.

Obama’s Pastor said some things that are scary to the uninformed White American. I do not condone all that he has said, but I do know there is a lot of truth in his words. We have been very arrogant at times and when it comes back to haunt us we become indignant. The Republican Talking Point for this, “is the blame America first”, statement. This absolves us of any responsibility in the hand of fate that befalls us.

I feel Barack’s position in this matter is clear and concise. The Pastor is from another generation. A generation where Blacks were not even guaranteed a vote until the 60’s. Just barely one hundred years earlier they were slaves in this country. Barack has proven himself to be a man of good judgment. He has taken the correct teachings from his Mentor and rejected those that are at odds with his beliefs. This sounds like an intelligent man to me.

You are now witnessing the Corporate Powers and the Main Stream Media at work. They are protecting their agenda and their economic interests at the expenses of our freedom of choice. Barack and our will to change the hands that govern us is a threat to the comfy position these people find themselves in. You see the “boomers” are not going to hand the helm to the younger generation with out a fight. They will do anything to keep control and now it looks as if they will even go as far as trying to divide us along racial lines. Hillary”s camp has been attempting to Ghettoize Barack from the beginning and now she has the Press helping her.

Free your mind from the fear peddlers. Think for yourself. Do not let them guide you into the light. This is the first time in my life that we have had the chance to take control of our government. The internet is our power. We now can communicate with each other like we have never been able to in the history of mankind. It would be ashame waste it at this juncture. This Country need new drivers with new maps because the ones we have now have gotten us really lost.

Watch this George Carlin video thing will get even clearer.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/?review=1#url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg

Facts:
Only 22% of graduating College kids can find Iran on a globe. Less than 16% can place all 50 states on a map of this country. 3% can tell you when Iraq became a sovereign nation, less can tell you how it became one. 1% can tell you what democratically elected Mid East Ruler the AMERICAN CIA overthrew. No wonder we can’t take the truth when it is spoken by an angry Black Minister. I don’t prescribe to all he has to say, but there is a lot of truth in the rhetoric. You want the Truth, You can ‘t handle the Truth……..or can you?

Rob

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