The following Democrats are on the verge of selling out all working Americans by handing George Bush a much needed victory on CAFTA.
There are supposedly upwards of 6 DLCers looking to throw their support behind the administration, Big Sugar, outsourcers and exploiters of Central American labor. As many as 22 GOPers are switching sides on this battle to vote against CAFTA.
Let's not be mistaken here. Free Trade can be good when it upholds labor and environmental standards that do not exploit one workforce while draining jobs away from another. A deal without that with a region that has the gross GDP of New Haven, CT is nothing less than a bid for more cheap, exploited labor closer to home than the cheap, exploited labor in China and Pakistan.
It's one thing for free traders to say that free trade will someday have a positive effect on us. It is another to post it with "someday" while American workers wait for their jobs to come back and American multinationals get fat on the immediate benefits of exploited trade.
When exactly is it our time as workers? When do we get to profit from NAFTA? What 20, 30 years from now? When we can all get jobs cleaning up the environmental cesspools GE and everybody else will leave in Mexico once the people and nation have been raped of everything?
I am glad the the Democratic Party is nearly unanimous against the bad bill. To the gang of 6 turncoats, rats, scabs, DLCers, cororate whores or whatever you call yourselves, I hope that the corporate cash you recieve is well worth it. It did a lot of good for a lot of the Dems who voted for NAFTA in 1993, I think some of them wound up with lobbying jobs on K Street the next year. Perhaps next time you'll follow John Edwards' message instead of Al Frum.
Meslissa Bean (D-Ill)
Got into office thanks to strong union support in the Chicago suburbs. Wants to now appeal to conservative free traders and needs the campaign cash since the unions are now going to stop backing her.
Jim Moran (D-VA)
Comes from the most liberal part of VA. I guess not liberal enough.
Dennis Moore (D-KS)
I almost want to give him a pass on this one.
Scott Matthewson (D-UT)
Same as Moore. Is there any manufacturing in Utah?
William Jefferson (D-LA)
From Louisiana and he's for it? Even the Louisiana GOP hates it. WTF?
I'm missing one. I'll have to find out who it is.
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