Blog-IT-o ergo sum

	6/13/2005

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Unintended consequences of government assistance checks. And you wondered why some idiot would put $2000 of wheels on a $1000 car?

(As seen on Lee Street between downtown Greensboro and the Coliseum.)

9:57:52 PM

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Jim Capo on CAFTA

From today's N&R.

1:05:24 PM

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The New York Times on CAFTA

"...President Bill Clinton called Nafta a defining moment for America...Where are those Democrats now?

"The Democrats also argue that the trade agreement's labor provisions don't go far enough to protect workers in the six other countries. But they are ignoring a provision that improves on existing rules by taking fines collected for violations of labor laws and using them to correct labor infractions. That's far better than the current system, in which penalties collected for labor violations end up in the United States Treasury."

--- Note that second quote there: Labor infraction fines from OSHA now going into the US Treasury under CAFTA will be transfered into the new international CAFTA governance body...which will be impossing fines based on the UN'S International Labour Organizations's 8 Principles of Labor Standards. US Labor Laws currently only meet 2 of these 8 principles.

12:57:43 PM

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Donald Rumsfeld on CAFTA

"The coming vote on CAFTA is a national security vote. Let there be no doubt."

--- Donald Rumsfeld June 11, 2005

There you have it. Conclusive proof that voting AGAINST CAFTA must be the right thing to do. And Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez complains that CAFTA opponents are the ones getting creative!

11:24:36 AM

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