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Stephen Spruiell has some fun with the fact that negotiations over the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement have failed because Democrats, who usually tell us that free trade agreements must be stopped because they undermine labor and environmental regulations, are now claiming that South Korea’s environmental standards are too stringent. “If the administration’s message is incoherent, it’s because the administration is not negotiating from a set of principles, but from an industry wish list,” he writes. His conclusion:
The auto industry has already gotten enough help from this administration. How about some help for the rest of us now, in the form of a free-trade deal that would increase U.S. GDP by an estimated $10 billion to $12 billion per year? Obama talks a lot about all the bad things he inherited from his predecessor. But the U.S.-Korea deal was just fine the way he found it. If he can get Korea to loosen its emissions restrictions, then all to the good, say we free-marketeers. Maybe his next triumph could be to loosen them here.
If not, then he should drop his hypocritical objections to the deal and sign it. It would be nice to have a little economic stimulus that our kids won’t have to pay back, with interest, someday.
Amen.
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Larry Sheldon | 11.12.10 @ 11:14PM
Is it OK if I am confused?
Explosion Proof Light | 11.13.10 @ 12:26AM
For most Americans, Obama doesn't seem to be giving them something they don't have, but instead to be taking away something they already value.
MikeD| 11.13.10 @ 9:25AM
Every day this incompetent moron does something else to harm our Country. Nobody could possibly be that consistently stupid. He's evil, down to the bottoms of his feet. This is an orchestrated process to bring down our Country being implemented by an American hating puppet of the ideological descendants of the 60's radicals who taught him everything he knows. Impeachment anyone?
MikeN| 11.13.10 @ 11:47AM
Korea is a smaller market. The US is a large market. Is it worth dropping the tariffs on imported Hyundais and Kias to get a 10% reduction in the export price of US cars to Korea?
If the 2.5% tariff that the US is imposing is so high, then let Kia build a plant here.
Dale Cord| 11.13.10 @ 11:51AM
Impeachment? LOL First of all to get gangsters to rat out on their own is ridiculous, to say the least. This countries population is suffering under the delusion that there are honest and law abiding people in their government.When Nixon and Clinton were impeached, there was still a shred of decency and rule of law in Washington, but no more. When are the people going to wakeup? "Never".We are all going to go down in flames, if anyone believes the history of all great Empires who have gone the way of immoral and decadent behavior, and America is no different.How many warning signs? How many Red Flags need to be waved in your face? How many facts and statistics of murder and mayhem, committed by these Chicago gangsters in our government does it take? How much of your income needs to be stolen by these thief's? How many lies can your brain hold and retain by those who are suppose to represent you in Washington? How many rapes of daughters and sons does it take? How many of our sons and daughters have to be slaughtered in some far away country for drugs and oil? How many babies need to be slaughtered in the womb? How much corruption does it take before these atrocities are finally put out of existence? We will never know that and all the other questions herein.Why? because we put these crimes in the back of our minds and deny there very existence,for we have many distraction that focus on entertaining our fantasies instead of reality. There is a way that "seems" right to a man, but the end therein is Death!
ROWDY BOOTS| 11.13.10 @ 8:53PM
IMPEACHMENT NOW
IMPEACH THIS TRAITOROUS SCOUNDREL.
HE IS A MENACE TO SOCIETY.
HE IS A MENACE TO THE VERY PEOPLE HE SAYS HE WILL HELP.
LIES, DECEIT AND INCOMPETENCE--IT IS JUST TOO MUCH TO WATCH!
MY GOD--ARE THE DEMOCRATS THIS STUPID?
ROWDY BOOTS
Occam's Tool| 11.15.10 @ 11:25PM
Dear Rowdy:
a slight disagreement. Democrats are not stupid, for the most part; they are traitors, for the most part. They know exactly how evil they are and do it anyway.
Of course Obama was going to screw over Korea. He has slapped the face of every one of our allies, sometimes in remarkably petty ways. He's an asshat.
sukhoi37| 11.15.10 @ 10:47AM
As a technical note, the Free Trade Agreement was executed by Presidents Bush and Roh Moo Hyun and submitted to the US Congress and ROK National Assembly for ratification. The ROK Assembly eventually ratified the treaty despite some strong opposition. The ROK National Assembly seems posed to ratify it. The democrat-led US Senate refused to ratify the treaty despite persistent effort by the administration.
sukhoi37| 11.15.10 @ 10:49AM
Sorry - delete the text "The ROK Assembly eventually ratified the treaty desipte some strong opposition." Although reported out of committee, it was not ratified yet (as the next sentence correctly implies).