speech
12-19-2008, 11:33 PM
The World Trade Organization is an undemocratic organization run by the rich, for the rich. The bylaws of the organization supersede our own Constitution. If America is to recover economically it must either renegotiate or completely withdraw from the WTO.
The Constitution states that all treaties made under the authority of the United States become supreme law of the land. The U.S. invited the WTO to rule over us when our government signed the treaty, and now we have no choice but to conform U.S. laws, regulation and administrative procedures to the agreement.
In October, Pascal Lamy Director General of the WTO, made a visit to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he openly exulted the benefits of unfettered free trade and discounted the abundance of overwhelming evidence pointing to the fallacies of “free trade.”
“Evidence is persuasive that trade openness delivers efficiencies and generates wealth,” Lamy said. “If trade opening takes place under the right conditions, all countries can benefit from international exchange.”
Of course, the former half of that statement is fairly accurate. Unfortunately, that wealth created goes to the haves, while the have-nots are worse off. It’s a classic case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. In fact, since the advent of the WTO, the percentage of people worldwide living on less than $1 per day has actually increased. Moreover, 500 million peasant farmers have been displaced during the WTO regime by “agricultural modernization.” That “agricultural modernization” has not only displaced poor farmers, but it has also brought us mad cow disease, the avian bird flu and melamine contaminated milk products.
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The Constitution states that all treaties made under the authority of the United States become supreme law of the land. The U.S. invited the WTO to rule over us when our government signed the treaty, and now we have no choice but to conform U.S. laws, regulation and administrative procedures to the agreement.
In October, Pascal Lamy Director General of the WTO, made a visit to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he openly exulted the benefits of unfettered free trade and discounted the abundance of overwhelming evidence pointing to the fallacies of “free trade.”
“Evidence is persuasive that trade openness delivers efficiencies and generates wealth,” Lamy said. “If trade opening takes place under the right conditions, all countries can benefit from international exchange.”
Of course, the former half of that statement is fairly accurate. Unfortunately, that wealth created goes to the haves, while the have-nots are worse off. It’s a classic case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. In fact, since the advent of the WTO, the percentage of people worldwide living on less than $1 per day has actually increased. Moreover, 500 million peasant farmers have been displaced during the WTO regime by “agricultural modernization.” That “agricultural modernization” has not only displaced poor farmers, but it has also brought us mad cow disease, the avian bird flu and melamine contaminated milk products.
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