[PEN-L:4825] Liberty Lobby: NAFTA REPEAL: HR 499 INFO, Apr.24 (fwd)

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> Subject: NAFTA REPEAL: HR 499 INFO
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> Subject: NAFTA REPEAL: HR 499 INFO
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> 			REPEAL NAFTA NOW
> 			SUPPORT H.R. 499
>
> A bipartisan populist coalition in the House of Representatives
> is calling for the repeal of NAFTA.
>
> ...
>
> Dear Friend of American Sovereignty:
>
> NAFTA isn't a disaster waiting to happen.
>
> It's happening.
>
> That's why Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and a group of his House colleagues
> have introduced critical new legislation, H.R. 499.  This bill needs our
> IMMEDIATE support ...
>
> H.R. 499 WOULD WITHDRAW THE U.S. FROM NAFTA.
>
> This measure MUST be enacted by Congress.
>
> We can put an end to the NAFTA disaster now.
>
> ...
>
> According to Congressman DeFazio: "NAFTA is not only a job killer,
> but it has the potential to trigger the biggest U.S. taxpayer bailout
> since the S & L fiasco.
>
> "U.S. working families are already being asked to put up billions of dollars
> to prop up Mexico's currency and help pave the way for more U.S.
> manufacturing jobs moving south of the border.  It's time to pull the plug
> on this disaster-in-the-making."
>
> Although he's a Democrat, DeFazio isn't pulling any partisan punches.
> "The Clinton administration," he says, "is desparately trying to cover up
> the abject failure of this trade agreement by pouring billions of dollars
> into Mexican banks and fudging the trade numbers."
>
> But there's more ...
>
> The GPP big shots on Capitol hear also bear part of the blame.  As DeFazio
> points out, "There's also a conspiracy of silence on the part of the
> Republican leadership in Congress who provided the votes needed to pass
> this turkey."
>
> Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the dynamic Ohio Democrat who was one of NAFTA's
> most outspoken foes, has joined Rep. DeFazio in cosponsoring H.R. 499.
>
> According to Rep. Kaptur: "One U.S. factory has closed every day
> since the enactment of NAFTA.  From Vermont to Pennsylvania to California
> to Alabama to Florida, people who had jobs now do not because of NAFTA.
>
> "Good jobs have disappeared and are replaced by temporary and part-time
> work with no benefits," she says.  "As families are forever disrupted,
> NAFTA is wreaking economic havoc on these families-- and for our country,
> NAFTA remains death by pin-pricks.
>
> "This time last year," says Kaptur, "every special interest politician,
> every reporter from the Wall Street Journal and the big business magnates
> who read it could not stop gushing about NAFTA.  Today Washington is
> whispering about how the U.S. is bailing out Mexico.
>
> "If the elites choose to whisper," says Kaptur, "let me yell it--
> $9 billion in direct credit from U.S. taxpayers, $5 billion from the
> U.S. Federal Reserve and $3 billion in loans from U.S. banks!  And this
> is just for starters.  The Clinton administration says it is prepared
> to pay whatever it takes down the road.
>
> "The U.S. government and U.S. banks are spending your money to prop up
> the Mexican peso, in a country that has never known true democracy, and
> the multinationals and megabanks that have moved there."
>
> According to Rep. Kaptur, NAFTA's promoters promised 60,000 U.S.-
> manufactured vehicles would be exported to Mexico in 1994,
> but in reality only 28,000 were sent while the U.S. imported
> 278,000 cars from Mexico.
>
> "The Big Three corporations have used NAFTA to downsize their labor forces
> in the U.S., hold down wages and invest heavily in Mexico," she says.
>
> Joining DeFazio and Kaptur as cosponsors of H.R. 499 is an impressive
> coast-to-coast bipartisan coalition:
>
>   * DUncan Hunter (R) of California;
>   * Terry Everett (R) of Alabama;
>   * Ron Klink (R) of Pennsylvania;
>   * Jim Traficant (D) and Sherrod Brown (D) of Ohio;
>   * Neil Abercrombie (D) and Patsy Mink (D) of Hawaii;
>   * Lane Evans (D) and William Lipinski (D) of Illinois;
>   * Maurice Hinchey (D) and Nydia Velazquez (D) of New York;
>   * George Miller (D) of California;
>   * Frank Pallone (D) of New Jersey;
>   * Collin Peterson (D) of Minnesota;
>   * Gene Taylor (D) of Mississippi; and
>   * Independent Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
>
> According to DeFazio, Kaptur and their colleagues, here are some
> of the additional disastrous results of NAFTA thus far:
>
>   * The congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC) says the U.S. trade
>     surplus with Mexico-- not counting goods produced overseas and shipped
>     through U.S. ports-- shrank by 27 percent in the first nine months
>     of 1994, and the U.S. showed a trade deficit with Mexico for the month
>     of October.
>
>   * U.S. Commerce Department trade figures artificially inflate U.S.
>     export numbers by including the value of products manufactured
>     overseas and transshipped through U.S. ports.  (For example,
>     cars produced in Spain and shipped through U.S. ports for sale
>     in Mexico are counted by the U.S. government as "U.S. exports."
>     Yet, such transshipments create very few U.S. jobs.
>
>   * The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of NAFTA Trade Adjustment
>     Assistance reports that it has thus far approved 12,000 out of
>     30,000 applications for welfare from workers who lost their jobs
>     due to NAFTA.
>
> Congressman DeFazio says these numbers are just "the tip of the iceberg,"
> citing JEC estimates that the huge growth in imports from Mexico
> into the U.S. since NAFTA's passage has cost 137,000 U.S. jobs, mostly
> in the high wage manufacturing sectors.
>
> When reality sets in and the U.S.-Mexico trade figures worsen
> and the cost of the peso bailout increases, says Rep. DeFazio,
> support for repealing NAFTA will grow dramatically.
>
> That's why we need to throw our FULL SUPPORT behind H.R. 499.
>
> Let's make NAFTA history!
>
> Here's what you need to do ...
>
>   * Put the enclosed REPEAL NAFTA bumper sticker on your car or on someone
>     else's.  Let's have these green gems glow from coast-to-coast overnight.
>     If you send in a contribution of $25 or more, I'll send you FIVE
>     EXTRA STICKERS.
>
>   * Make a contribution to LIBERTY LOBBY to help promote our lobbying
>     efforts to ensure enactment of H.R. 499 and the repeal of NAFTA.
>
>   * Order extra copies of the bumper sticker.  Send a bumper sticker
>     to your representative and both of your U.S. senators.  That will
>     really help get the message across.
>
>   * Write and call your representative and urge him or her to sign
>     on as a co-sponsor and actively promote passage of H.R. 499.
>
>   * Write and call both your U.S. Senators and urge them to introduce
>     companion legislation in the Senate to repeal NAFTA.
>
>   * You can call your lawmakers through the U.S. Capitol switchboard
>     at (202) 224-3121.  If you don't know the name of your representative
>     and senators, the switchboard can assist you.
>
>   * Write your representative in care of the U.S. House of Reprentatives,
>     Washington, D.C. 20515; write your senators in care of the U.S. Senate,
>     Washington, D.C. 20510.
>
> And once again, by all means, please make a special contribution to
> LIBERTY LOBBY to help us in our public relations and lobbying efforts
> on behalf of H.R. 499.
>
> ...
>
> In any case, time is of the essence.  Please let us hear from you
> immediately.
>
>
> 						Sincerely,
>
> 						(signed)
> 						VINCE RYAN
> 						Chairman
> 						LIBERTY LOBBY Board of Policy
>
> P.S. I've just learned something really exciting.  Dr. Robert L. Brock,
> the famed Black nationalist, plans to begin his own major public relations
> effort on Capitol Hill urging Congress to support H.R. 499 and repeal NAFTA.
>
> Brock says: "NAFTA hurts all Americans-- Black and White alike.  We need
> to work together to repeal this international bankers' rape and robbery
> of the American taxpayers and workers."
>
> 			REPEAL NAFTA NOW!
> 			SUPPORT H.R. 499
>
>
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