Suggestion for those PO'd on the CAFTA vote

[Nevernose]

Write your congresspeople, preferably snail mail, and tell them how you feel. More importantly, write the 201 Nays and TELL THEM THEY DID THE RIGHT THING!

[asianmale]

1. How about some fodder

I am a bit ignorant about the detailed workings of CAFTA but on the surface doesn't seem like a very good idea for American workers.
Can some of you please enlighten me prior to writing my Congressman?

[Nevernose]

2. Short version:

It's not good for workers PERIOD.

It works the same as NAFTA was alleged to have worked: increasing jobs in Central America while not losing jobs in North Am. On the surface, sounds like a worhty cause.

Unfortanately, it's been tried before. Most recently NAFTA, but beforehand all over the world, in the guise of the WTO/IMB, NAFTA, Chile and the Chicago Boys ... what's happening is a neo-conservative movement for something obstenably referred to as "free trade," but actually results in the loss of domestic jobs and the gain of short-term, exploitive jobs in the third world (jobs which in turn enrich already-wealthy American businessmen and stockholders in a trickle down system which fail to relieve the burden on the middle and lower classes).

Those are mt personal problems with CAFTA; there're a lot more reasons and links if you google "CAFTA."

http://www.stopcafta.org/