Deja Q
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Wed Jan-04-06 05:47 PM
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| "free trade" agreements: why do they have to be hundreds of pages long? |
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NAFTA was over 900.
CAFTA is over 2400.
For "free trade", why not just ahve one page that says "you and I will trade freely" followed by relevant signature lines?
Otherwise it's not free, and who is going to LOOK at the drivel in those 2400 pages?
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| Canuckistanian
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Wed Jan-04-06 05:50 PM
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| 1. Loopholes, my boy, loopholes. |
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Without them, the corporations can't slip in their little 'gifts' during negociations or court battles.
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| OffWithTheirHeads
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Wed Jan-04-06 08:51 PM
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| 2. cause you can"t slip nasty shit |
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into three pages. You need several hundred pages that can't possibly be read by time to vote. It's the American way.
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