Congress’ Disastrous Mistake – Passing the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
We will very soon see that the KORUS FTA will NOT export more American products as promised, it will export more American jobs!
This agreement is over 500 pages long. Did members of Congress read the agreement? Did they understand it?
Free trade is nice sounding, but it is an extremely misleading policy. In actuality the practice has wreaked havoc on the American economy. It appears as though our leaders are either apathetic or clueless when it comes to the United States’ involvement with free trade agreements (FTAs).
Very simply put, free trade provides uncontrolled and unrestricted tariff and duty free access to the American economy for products manufactured overseas by workers making $1 – $4 an hour. American companies cannot compete against these meager wages, which has forced them to outsource their manufacturing and jobs to countries like South Korea, Mexico and China.
Regardless of what jobs plans our politicians propose, none of them will have the desired results unless the nation’s leaders gets us out our current free trade agreements.
Starting with NAFTA 17 years ago, free trade agreements have caused the most massive turn around in a country since the beginning of historical record keeping. Our free trade agreements have changed America from being a debt free productive economy to a debt ridden unproductive service (servant) economy – heavily reliant on imports to survive while liquidating many of its most productive companies. We have sold 16,631 of our best companies in the past 30 years.
Our system is not working, we cannot continue to allow this to happen. We are being terribly misled. Our system of selecting leaders is flawed and we have no way of replacing them. Now we can clearly see our leaders’ motives and actions should be questioned, as Congress passed the most outrageous free trade agreement we have ever signed, the KORUS FTA.
Please write your legislators. Tell them, we need jobs, but it is impossible for us to support our families if we are forced to compete against workers earning $1-$4 per hour.
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