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Title: Romney says free trade needed to combat Latin American poverty
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Associated Press
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Published: Jul 29, 2007
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2007-07-29 19:32:58 by Brian S
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MIAMI- Free trade is key to ending Latin American poverty, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday while courting support from the Cuban-American and growing Venezuelan-American communities. "Trade lifts all nations that participate," Romney said when asked how he would end poverty and other conditions that have given rise to leaders such as Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, who has been a close ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, noted that the Bush administration had sought free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and Peru, but the Democratic-controlled Congress failed to approve them. "We’d like to see more agreements, not fewer, to improve the economic well-being of our neighborhood," he said. Later, Romney criticized Democrat Barack Obama for saying last week that he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba. Romney told 350 people at a Seminole County GOP fundraiser Saturday that the next president should meet with friendly nations first. "Surely the next American president would want to reach out to our friends around the world, particular here in our own hemisphere," he said, specifically mentioning Colombia and Mexico. "We want to reach out to these people, re-establish our relationships and trust." Obama was asked during a debate last week if he would meet - without precondition - with the leaders of Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Iran and Venezuela. The Illinois senator said he would. Romney said he would not restore relations with Cuba until it had free elections, political prisoners were freed and individual rights were restored. South Florida’s Venezuelan-American community holds far fewer votes than its Cuban-American counterpart. But it is growing, has cash and has a strong influence in South Florida’s Spanish-language airwaves. More than 80,000 Venezuelans live in Florida, roughly half of all Venezuelans in this country, according to the U.S. Census. Romney said Chavez’s push to nationalize some Venezuelan industries has cooled international interest in Latin American investment, and the U.S. must show its commitment to the region. "Following 9/11, we understandably focused our attention on the Middle East and have not paid enough attention to our interests in the region, our own hemisphere," he said. Romney also spoke to veterans of the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion at their small museum in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood and promised to seek out their intelligence expertise on Cuba if elected president. But it wasn’t his foreign policy as much as his opposition to abortion and emphasis on family that supporters said they found attractive. "Everyone talks about family values, but Romney has demonstrated them with his five sons and his long marriage," said Adam Roig, 51, who works in medical technology. Meanwhile, both Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will miss a live national televised debate Sept. 17 sponsored by CNN. As part of an arrangement with the video-sharing Web site YouTube, questions for the debate would come from the online video community, an element Romney seems uneasy about. "I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman," Romney said earlier this week, referencing a Democratic event held in South Carolina on Monday that included a question about global warming from a snowman.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Sure AIPAC Mitt! Then why did Costa Rica say " Shove it. "
Jesus Christ on a crutch... is there ANYTHING these globalist bastards won't stoop to in order to promote "free trade"? "I broke my leg" "Oh, Free trade will fix that!" "My dog ran away" "Oh, we need free trade, that will bring your dog back!" "My kid has the flu" "You need FREE TRADE!" "I'm sick of your globalist nonsense" "What you need is MORE FREE TRADE!" "I'm gonna CUT YOUR LYING THROAT" "Oh, FREE TRADE will give you a cheap knife to do it with!" I swear, militant backwoods evangelists are less aggressive and obnoxious than these psychotic promoters of "free trade". These guys are just flat out NUTS.
Romney says free trade needed to combat Latin American poverty Source: Associated Press
#2. To: JCHarris (#1)
 | Capitalism is NOT an economic system, it's a RELIGION for ASSHOLES! |
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Do any of these male appendage suckers ever think to put America first? Mutt is a prototypical checker pant, country club R. I loathe him.
#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#2)
You forgot, "What's wrong with $10 an hour? Can't you compete."?
#5. To: Jethro Tull, Brian S, Elliott Jackalope, JCHarris (#4)
Latin America's poverty is caused by over population. Their solution up until now has been to send their excess unskilled workers to America and to lower American wages. Currently we have a trade deficit of 2 billion dollars a day. When, not if, the dollar collapses, the value of our currency will be set by supply and demand. Wages will be cut in real after tax terms by 50% and pensions by 90%. At that time all immigration will cease except for the Latino criminal gangs who will sack and loot every city with a large Hispanic population. I expect the dollar to collapse before the end of 2009.
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#6. To: Horse (#5)
Laziness. Corruption. Skimming the profits instead of putting it into infrastructure. A welfare mentality. This goes for Puerto Rico to Mexico to Venezuela to Costa Rica.
Latin America's poverty is caused by over population.
#7. To: JCHarris (#6)
Corruption. Skimming the profits instead of putting it into infrastructure. A welfare mentality. Coming soon to a state near you.
Laziness.
#8. To: Horse (#5)
I'll be glued to CNBC tomorrow morning for opening bell. If we continue last weeks slide, the poop will hit the fan before 2009.
When, not if, the dollar collapses, the value of our currency will be set by supply and demand. Wages will be cut in real after tax terms by 50% and pensions by 90%.
#9. To: Horse (#5)
I don't think so. Ecuador is (I think) the most densely populated SA country and it's relatively uninhabited. Lots of real estate that is hardly explored. An important element of free trade is an honest money system. The US trade deficit is basically fueled by the US ability to crank out dollars, so it's no surprise that we're exporting our cheap goods (dollars) for real merchandise. Perhaps cash could be considered our chief export. But the US trade deficit means much of the worlds goods are sent to the USA instead of other countries that don't have the US counterfeiter's advantage of manufacturing money. More goods sent to the USA means fewer goods sent to other countries, meaning lower standards of living outside the USA. An honest money system instituted in the USA would aid Latin and other countries.
Latin America's poverty is caused by over population.
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
Jethro Tull What's your bet JT? I suspect an overall net sideways market M-F with improvement M from buying and Friday afternoon from the employment figures. Your guess?
I'll be glued to CNBC tomorrow morning for opening bell. If we continue last weeks slide, the poop will hit the fan before 2009.
#11. To: JCHarris (#6)
I'm growing weary of your disdain for diversity. We are a polyglot, multicultural quilt; each part equal and significant.
This goes for Puerto Rico to Mexico to Venezuela to Costa Rica.
#12. To: Horse (#5)
that's what Bob Chapman predicts too.
I expect the dollar to collapse before the end of 2009.
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
Jethro Tull Tough shit and bullshit. Fukk your tastes. Ever travelled SA/CA? I do constantly.
I'm growing weary of your disdain for diversity. We are a polyglot, multicultural quilt; each part equal and significant.
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
You buy Jessee's Diversity Rainbow crap formulated by the Tribe. I hold that bullshit in disdain.
I'm growing weary of your disdain for diversity. We are a polyglot, multicultural quilt; each part equal and significant.
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#11)
Suck on this Leftist bleeding heart dogma Mr Rainbow Coalition.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.
#16. To: JCHarris (#13)
JT was being sarcastic. ;)
#17. To: JCHarris (#10)
I'm thinking the worst. People have been living on plastic and home equity loans for years and the bill has come due. I read a few months back that nearly 30% of all the new cars purchased last year were w/the help of home equity loans alone. These big ticket purchases are about to evaporate along w/ countless billions in home equity. Last weeks 1/2 Trillion in stock market loses will translate into layoffs, accelerating the mess. It’s a great time to be liquid and renting.
#18. To: JCHarris (#15)
Gotcha :)
#19. To: Jethro Tull, christine (#17)
JT was being sarcastic. ;) christine Hey...if christine is correct...and she usually is....being a woman and all (-; I apologize for the direction of the rant, not the substance. I like you and respect what you say thus ping you a lot. I guess I am gun shy from being way laid by blog site denizens from RimJob onward. Cheers !
#16. To: JCHarris (#13)
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#18)
Gotcha :) Jethro Tul Damn sure did. * eating crow *
#18. To: JCHarris (#15)
#21. To: JCHarris (#20)
I understand ketchup and feathers go well together.
* eating crow *
#22. To: JCHarris (#20)
JC. Stop swearing and throwing things, we all on the same team. hehehehehehe
* eating crow *
#23. To: Jethro Tull (#17)
This could adversely affect consumer spending. They will generally tighten up and come out of it in a year. The leveraged mega billion nloans to business based on an opward trend in profits is also a concern, not for the fact itself but the magnitude of the fact. A downturn in profits here and abroad ( LBO is international) could be a messy thing re the narket. If tomorrow is a mild down or even up, then my defensive posture will be deemed inappropriate and reactionary. If tomorrow is a deep down, then expect a month more of the same. Notice Europe, Asia, Energy, REIT, Value, Financials and Emerging has not been spared the past week's carnage. What do YOU think about tomorrow?
These big ticket purchases are about to evaporate along w/ countless billions in home equity.
#24. To: Cynicom (#22)
hehehehehehe Cynicom Duck dammit (-;
Stop swearing and throwing things, we all on the same team.
#25. To: JCHarris (#24)
JC... Look at it this way...Anyone that takes the the name of Jethro willingly, has got to be a good ole boy. Even if he lives in Harlem.
Duck dammit (-;
#26. To: JCHarris (#19)
I honestly thought the comment was so repulsive you'd see it for the silliness it was :) Anyway, no apology necessary 'cause no offense taken.
#27. To: Brian S, *North American Union* (#0)
It isn't free trade, it's highly manipulated trade. And the traitor Romney clearly is more interested in foreign poverty than American.
Ron Paul for President
#28. To: Cynicom (#25)
Urban gentrification is a wonderful thing especially when I live in of Central PA. Even if he lives in Harlem.
#29. To: Jethro Tull (#28)
Did some grad work in UV/IR Spectroscopy at IUP under an NSF grant. Know Indiana? Love the area !
#30. To: Brian S (#0)
I'm all for free trade. What we have, however, is managed trade at the expense of the poor and middle-class, to benefit the rich.
“When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle.”-Louis Veuillot
#31. To: Jethro Tull (#28)
Jethro... I know, we are neighbors and possible cuzins, just think of that. Horrible thot, huh?
Urban gentrification is a wonderful thing especially when I live in of Central PA.
#32. To: christine (#16)
So many touchy people. I don't get it.
was being sarcastic. ;)
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
#33. To: JCHarris, Cynicom (#29)
No, I know nada about IUP. My daughters graduated from PSU and my son tried to for nearly 10 years. He just became a nurse. We live in State college, w/i walking distance to Beaver stadium where I plan on spending my Fall Saturdays. I have a love/hate relationship w/this town, but all in all, it's better that 125th and Lexington Ave. Isn't that right Cyni :)
#34. To: Jethro Tull (#33)
Jethro... East 125th Street (also known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard) hehehehehehehe
it's better that 125th and Lexington Ave
#35. To: Cynicom (#7)
Corruption. Skimming the profits instead of putting it into infrastructure. A welfare mentality. Coming soon to a state near yo This already describes Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Washington State among others.
Laziness.
The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
#36. To: DeaconBenjamin (#35)
Damn...Guess Jethro and I had better move, you got any GOOD places in mind? Mind you I have already lived in NY, MD, FL, NC, Tx, Id and CA.
Pennsylvania,
#37. To: Cynicom (#36)
Your mileage may vary.
Damn...Guess Jethro and I had better move, you got any GOOD places in mind?
The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
#38. To: Brian S (#0)
Yes, we have no bananas, none for the people today. They've all been exported, to support some fucking gay
Congressman from Missoula something something something
"A functioning police state needs no police." - William S Burroughs
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