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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 08:50 AM
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So when are we going to fix NAFTA?
Remember that?
Remember Clinton signing it with "promises" to eventually address labor and environmental concerns?
It's been been 17 years.

Do you think health insurance reform will be different?


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invictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 08:55 AM
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1. Answer: Never.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 08:57 AM
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2. Take another drink of that orange juice.
You'll feel better soon...

Reality always spoils the party mood. If can't you take opioids, consider jogging rather than blogging.

:sarcasm:

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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 08:59 AM
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3. Cardio exercise sounds good..;)
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:11 AM
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6. ...that Orange Juice that came from Brazil...
n/t
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:02 AM
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4. lets see, take from the uber rich!? No Way the screw keeps turning
IMO Health reform has died for the Ins Co's continued profits!
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:03 AM
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5. Just last month a nearby company that employed 300 people
making cases for cosmetics moved its operation south of the border. They'll continue to outsource our jobs as long as they're allowed . . . all the time wondering why he can't afford their products.
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:28 AM
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7. Yes, but don't worry tax credits are on the way.
Tax credits for green technology jobs are being handed out left and right as we speak. That guarantees the necessary 13 million jobs we failed to create this last 10 years are just around the corner. Because we certainly know tax cuts always create new jobs. Just remember when those 13 million new jobs that should have been created during the last decade are outsourced, they will get double tax credit. Once for opening a green technology job and once for shipping it out of the US.

So don't worry about NAFTA and all the other "free" trade corporate written agreements, we'll have them fixed along with health care in the next 30 or 40 years.

:sarcasm:
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:29 AM
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8. IT'S ONLY BEEN 17 YEARS!1!11!!!1
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endless october Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:31 AM
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9. it's bigger than NAFTA.
unless we take serious steps to discourage outsourcing, it's going to be hard for the middle class to recover.
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:39 AM
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10. "They" never said when or where those "newly created jobs" were supposed to come from?
or, what those who have been outsourced out of thie jobs were supposed to do to support themselves in the meantime?
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StarfarerBill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:47 AM
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11. Oh, right after we fix healthcare reform legislation, I imagine.
And right before DADT.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:49 AM
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12. heh. just the same way the fucked up HCR will be 'fixed' later.
:rofl:
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 09:55 AM
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13. Unfortunately, it would appear the country has literally get to
Banana Republic Status before our Leadership will acknowledge
and try to do something about it .

Look at Financial Meltdown. Does anyone really believe
all these well-experienced and educated people from both
Parties and Wall Street were caught completely blindsided????

Washington only moves when we are in absolute crisis. It
appears they will continue to run things into the ground
until a full collapse. The Free Trader Elites have too
much invested in China and Asia so they will continue
to push the destruction of our country. Transnationals
have allegiance to no country and Congress has sold its
soul to Transnationals.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 10:02 AM
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14. Never and it's gonna get worse when the North American Union is formed. nt
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 10:07 AM
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15. When are we going to fix China?
NAFTA looks like a joke in comparison.
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Yuugal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 10:41 AM
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16. Pony Fetishist
:)

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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 10:51 AM
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17. Maby it's time for China to get their own NAFTA and start to outsource

except their jobs would end up in INDIA...

Maby it's time for INDIA to get their own NAFTA and start to outsource,

except their jobs would end up in ???...


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