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Responses To: "Small steps to a sound economy"


Subject: "Small steps to a sound economy" created on 07/15/07 by americanvoter
1) reduce all salaries of US Congressmen and Senators by 2/3rds. They have done a rotten job with the massive salaries that they have voted themselves and thus set a bad example for others. (presidential Mitt Romney has stated he would NOT accept his presidential salary if elected just as he did not accept his salary when he was governor of Mass.);

2) Get the USA out of GATT; NAFTA; CAFTA to begin with. There were four more such treaties just signed by Pres. Bush before his authority in that area perished. {These treaties have built in "employment visas" that mandates the USA must import aliens for US jobs. Ain't that a kicker?]

3) Build up the US infrastructure -- creates good paying jobs for Americans as well as making the USA more competitive;

4) The war in Iraq is costing American billions of dollars -- we need to get that country on its feet and out of there immediately. We cannot afford the cost of American lives nor the finanical burden that Iraq was going to pay for according to Pres. Bush but later changed his mind on that;

5) No more freebie education programs for illegal aliens; no medical care (except for true emergencies); no more free legal clinics to help illegal aliens stay in the USA;

6) Define our true national neighbor friends (Honduras has just sent a high level authority official to Sec of State Condie Rice to threaten her that she needs to stop deportations of Hondurans back to their homeland because they send $2.8 billion back to Honduras every year. IF Rice does not bow to Hondura's demands they will take every action possible to support their citizens whom they know are illegally in the USA.) [How can we possibly be in this position where a micro-sized nation can make such bullying statements?];

7) I am not a tax expert but I suspect that there is something that has been done to make it finanically rewarding for US companies to move offshore. We need to have a reverse policy. Companies that show loyalty to America and American workers should be rewarded with lowered taxes.

8) And, of course, there is the problem with fiat currencies in the US and around the world.



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guest says "Mexico-Central America" on 08/04/07
The USA needs to honestly
help the peoples and nations
of Central America and Mexico
achieve democratic
governments and Social
Justice in those nations.
We don't need phoney trade
agreements that benefit
only the elites of those
nations. This also means
not undermining reform
minded governments and
using covert actions against
these nations. The fate of
this region is closely linked
to our own. Our present policies of "free trade
agreements", open borders,
and military intervention
both covert and overt to
maintain the status quo
in Mexico and Central America
is a prescription for disaster for the majority of
people on the North American
contintent from Panama to
Canada.

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