10/30/07:Peru Trade Deal Hurts All Except Rich Corporations- Don Timmerman
Peru Trade Deal Hurts All Except Rich Corporations
The Capital Times :: EDITORIAL :: A7
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Don Timmerman, Park Falls
Dear Editor: Soon members of Congress will vote on the Peru Free Trade Agreement. The agreement, as with the North American Free Trade Agreement, is bad for working people, the environment and national security.
The United States is in the midst of its largest trade deficit ever. The Peru Free Trade Agreement would allow corporations to continue exporting jobs from the United States to sweatshops abroad to take advantage of cheap labor.
Peru's Amazon Basin is home to an incredibly wide range of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. The trade agreement would lead to exploitation of the rainforests, putting countless species in danger of extinction.
The United States would further endanger itself. The agreement would explicitly require the United States to allow foreign companies to operate U.S. ports or risk paying millions of dollars in fines.
The Capital Times :: EDITORIAL :: A7
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Don Timmerman, Park Falls
Dear Editor: Soon members of Congress will vote on the Peru Free Trade Agreement. The agreement, as with the North American Free Trade Agreement, is bad for working people, the environment and national security.
The United States is in the midst of its largest trade deficit ever. The Peru Free Trade Agreement would allow corporations to continue exporting jobs from the United States to sweatshops abroad to take advantage of cheap labor.
Peru's Amazon Basin is home to an incredibly wide range of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. The trade agreement would lead to exploitation of the rainforests, putting countless species in danger of extinction.
The United States would further endanger itself. The agreement would explicitly require the United States to allow foreign companies to operate U.S. ports or risk paying millions of dollars in fines.
The legislators are beholden to the rich corporations, and they will pass the agreement if the common people do not raise their voices against it. They have already impoverished Americans by wasting $650 billion on the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they want to further impoverish Americans and Peruvians to boot with the Peru Free Trade Agreement.
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