Bush’s Free Trade Plan Has Faulty Premise

“Bush’s Trade Plan Stalled” (Nov. 15) noted that the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas was facing increasing opposition. However, the preliminary step to the potentially devastating FTAA is the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

During this year’s lame-duck session of Congress, Wall Street and the Bush administration hope to ram CAFTA through. Proponents claim that the primary objective is to negotiate a mutual lowering of tariff barriers that will benefit U.S. exports.

But Central America can’t provide large markets for American exports.

NAFTA has already cost America millions of manufacturing jobs, jobs that traditionally have been the entry into the middle class for minorities and the disadvantaged.

Daniel Sherman

Gardena

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The best reason to derail the FTAA is that it is not about free trade but a plan to merge America into trade managed by a cabal of internationalists.

It is a path to world government advocated by the likes of Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Dick Cheney and their ushers President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, along with other puppets.

Helen Schuenemann

San Pedro

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I’m happy to see that the FTAA plan may not come to fruition.

We have lost many jobs through NAFTA and the H1-B program, which has hurt our economy greatly. The FTAA may sound the death knell.

Paul D. Blumstein

Rancho Palos Verdes