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Offline corbe

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Big Business Ignores Threat to National Sovereignty Inherent in USMCA

Written by  Steve Byas 
Monday, 14 January 2019
 
 
  Citing the importance of international trade, particularly with Mexico and Canada, for the American economy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, big business interests in general, and agricultural associations such as the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), are all lobbying Congress to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). While one can sympathize with the desire to increase the bottom line of U.S. businesses involved in exports, such as the corn growers, no concern whatsoever is expressed about the adverse effect such agreements as USMCA and NAFTA have on the continued national sovereignty of the United States (and, for that matter, Mexico and Canada).

Tom Donahue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, took the occasion of his “State of American Business” speech to ask the Trump administration to not only drop tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico, but explained that this was important to do so as to advance the “free trade” agenda with even more nations.

“This would be an encouraging sign for all trading partners, including those we’re pursuing new market-opening agreements with, like Japan, the U.K. and the European Union,” Donahue said.

About three dozen business associations have linked in a lobbying effort to pressure Congress to ratify USMCA as quickly as possible, according to Politico.

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https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/31185-big-business-ignores-threat-to-national-sovereignty-inherent-usmca
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Re: Big Business Ignores Threat to National Sovereignty Inherent in USMCA
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2019, 08:47:00 pm »
Byas is simply referencing the obvious and that reality is direct and simple.
Industrial Capitalism emerged from the briefcase of the Enlightenment some 250
years past and it's hallmarks since day one have always been self-interest and
material betterment; to the exclusion of custom/tradition driven by spiritual value.
Their errand boy and flunky has always been the republicrat party; aggressive
promoters of centralized government and staunch supporters of trade protectionism.
Way past high time John Q. Citizen woke up to this reality and expunged the infantile
notion that the interests of big business hustlers and the GOP are synonymous w/that
of plain people.