Obama to push more trade agreements

"I will renegotiate NAFTA"

Sean Sailor

February 12, 2010

While campaigning in 2007-2008 Obama repeatedly told crowds of factory workers “I will renegotiate NAFTA to make it fairer for the American worker”.

It was soon discovered that Obama’s senior staffers had made calls to high-ranking Canadian officials informing them that no changes would be made to NAFTA- “its just campaign rhetoric“.

Now, after having reneged on his oft-repeated campaign pledge to renegotiate NAFTA,  Barrack Obama is publicly stating his support for such “Free Trade Agreements” (FTAs) with even more countries.

In an interview with Business Week released Feb 11, Obama said he would “attempt to push through Congress legislation for FTAs with South Korea, Panama and Colombia”.

This goes further than his statement on the matter in his January 27  State of the Union speech:

“(the U.S.) will strengthen our trade relations in Asia and with key partners like South Korea and Panama and Colombia”

Now he says in the interview he will “push through legislation”.

There’s so much Mr. Obama didn’t explain in his speech.

For example, Obama didn’t explain what a  “key partner” is. However, one might guess it could be a synonym for “puppet state”, as this seems the only thing these 3 nations have in common.

He also left out that he mentions these 3 specifically because they have not yet signed on to a larger plan that has been in the works for several years.

Many countries have already joined, an example being Peru, whose people held demonstrations against the US Peru Free Trade Agreement that resulted in a massacre in June, 2009.

Now Mr Obama wants to bring the same joy to neighboring Colombia.

Never mind that U.S. spending in Colombia already exceeds $3 bil a year- and is now set to climb with Obama’s announcement last year of 7 new military bases there.

Mr. Obama also forgot to explain, both in his speech and BW interview that all of the “free trade” agreements such as NAFTA  have cost millions of jobs in the U.S. and saddled the nation with a debt of trillions.

Also missing from Obama’s speech was any mention of the fact that NAFTA and all of  its AFTA, CAFTA alphabet brethren aren’t really trade agreements at all, but rather:

NAFTA is… ” the architecture of a new international system… the vital first step for a new kind of community of nations”

From the article With NAFTA U.S. Finally Creates a New World Order

by Henry Kissinger (1

These agreements have been more destructive of American wealth, industry and sovereignty than any other legislation in U.S. history.

That’s the New World Order poison in this alphabet soup that Obama is now asking you to believe is good for you when he says he will “push through legislation” for it.

If you weren’t aware of this, you must not have been on the list for a personal call from one of his staffers to explain what his lies actually mean.

Sean Sailor February,2010

1) LA Times July 18, 1993, pp m-2,6.

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