Ag Weekly Online: Twin Falls, Idaho

The Idaho and U.S. sugar industry is being destroyed by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that is allowing unlimited, uninspected sugar from Mexico.

We can withdraw from NAFTA by passing House Concurrent Resolution 22. This would block our president from forming a North American Union that is combining Mexico, Canada and the U.S. into a regional government run by unelected bureaucrats like the European Union. This according to a plan developed by The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to create regional government.

NAFTA, adopted in 1993, has been very destructive to American jobs. Our trade deficit with Canada and Mexico was $9 billion before NAFTA, but it was $126 billion in 2005.

More than one million jobs have been lost, and it has ruined the Mexican economy as well.

NAFTA’s unconstitutional tribunals (courts), operating under a United Nation’s Commission, have been overriding our courts and ruling against U.S. commercial enterprises.

Henry Kissinger (CFR member) correctly stated in 1993 that the passage of NAFTA “will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries … and a first step toward a free-trade zone for the entire Western Hemisphere.”

NAFTA has been destroying our constitutional rights and independence. We must get out! Please ask our senators and congressmen to cosponsor and pass H. Con. Resolution 22 to withdraw from NAFTA, H. Con. Resolution 40 to stop the North American Union and pass H.R. 1146, sponsored by presidential candidate Representative Ron Paul, to get out of the tyrannical United Nations.

Adrian L. Arp, Ph.D.

Twin Falls, ID

Comments »

Len Ferreira wrote on Aug 9, 2008 3:17 PM:

" I guess Ross Paroe was clairvouant---A big sucking sound. Our Politicans listen to Lobbyist, special interest groups and who ever has Dollars to donate. They listen to us with lip service and if they feel they need a pay increase, they put it to a vote. It is a real shame that we do not get a chance to vote on major issues such as NAFTA. "

frankm wrote on Jul 12, 2008 12:24 PM:

" we all know that NAFTA is not for the American peolpe. It is for those other people to make alot of money.... what was the wrong before NAFTA. nothing!!!! get it....... "

Charles wrote on Jul 11, 2008 11:30 AM:

" The US sugar industry is among the most protected, subsidized, coddled and anti-competitive industries of any kind in the world. The amount of sugar grown in the US is government-controlled (meaning higher prices). The growers get massive subsidies (meaning higher prices through taxes). The government sets price floors (meaning higher prices). High prices for sugar mean that food producers use unhealthy high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as a substitute, which drives up prices for corn and any food or product (including ethanol and feed for livestock) derived from corn. If there's a Latino food store in your neighborhood, see if they have Mexican-bottled Coca-Cola. It will taste much better because it's made with real sugar instead of HFCS.

Sugar growers give more "soft money" to Congress than any other food industry (meaning more corruption). Google "Fanjul Sugar" for an introduction. We need to make our own sugar industry a free market before we start crying about sugar from other countries. "

Shawn wrote on Jul 7, 2008 3:52 PM:

" I got a chuckle from the golf cart comment from Mr. Keatts. I was thinking the same thing last week. Perfect for getting around town, too bad no one really provided ways for alternate vehicles to get around the city and maybe some inovative trains to get from the suberbs.

In Canada with the SPP moving ahead feverishly, changing all the laws for transportation, agriculture, energy, and others so as to integrate it with the U.S and mexican laws, it will be hard to stop NAFTA. So much has gone on behind closed doors with so much more to do.

Maybe the decision makers would like us all to move overseas to where the jobs are so they can turn this continent into a huge open mining pit. You know the U.S has a huge oil sands like Canada in prime country that they would love to get but haven't figured out how to get it with out destroying huge tracks of land. "

Handyman wrote on Jul 3, 2008 6:31 PM:

" NAFTA has destroyed our economy in more ways then anyone will every know! The construction industry has all but gone to the latino's..... Many Americans have lost businesses, jobs, homes all because of the after effects of NAFTA. In my opinion it has to go and this Nation has to take back what it has lost..... "

John Keatts wrote on Jun 21, 2008 11:46 AM:

" If it does not work out for all countries then I say that we bring NAFTA to a close.
America is to good to the rest of the world and then we are bad for ourselves.
We send jobs to countries like China and India then we complain when they can afford to buy cars that also needs gas. Then we just sit there and complain instead of doing what is best for America and the American People.
Right now Americans are paying over $4.00 per gallon for gas. How many cities have allowed golfcarts on their city streets? How about allowing those 4x4 all terain vehicles. We should be doing everything in our power to help out the American workers and the American farmers. To anything less is wrong "

shaneinwy wrote on Jun 19, 2008 2:44 PM:

" coulda, shoulda, woulda had a Ron Paul. When a nation's number one export is paper currency, BS like NAFTA is inevitable. "

Sabrina Goucher wrote on Jun 10, 2008 8:06 PM:

" The book Captains and Kings discribes Nafta. Americans are the last in the world to know how much are freedom is being drained away. If you want to save our country shop local not global. "

bobby wrote on Jun 10, 2008 7:06 PM:

" All vegetables and fruits from Mexico tastes horrible! No kidding. I hate NAFTA for what they have done to us! I miss the wonderful taste of vegetables and fruits that made in USA! Please shut NAFTA out for good. "

R Pope wrote on Jun 1, 2008 5:34 PM:

" The loss of jobs in America is attributed primarily to treaties such as NAFTA which move jobs to those countries where people are willing to work long hours for slave wages. There was a time not too long ago when Americans were so proud of what we were that we actually hunted for products bearing the "Made in America" label. Today, if you find such a label then you are extremely fortunate - and even then the product may not be truly "Made in America". Instead, its parts will have been made in some third-world country such as Mexico, Thailand, or Venezuela, then passed through American factories only long enough for some amount of assembly to be performed on its parts to satisfy the claim that the product was made in our once-proud nation.

Treaties such as NAFTA have taken jobs from American men and women who are ready, willing and eager to work for honest wages, and has placed that work into the hands of child laborers who cannot stand up and fight for fair wages in the sweatshops that they toil away in. I have seen those sweatshops first-hand, and they are definitely nothing that Americans should ever be proud to have a part in. "

jose wrote on May 24, 2008 3:58 PM:

" umm the lost of jobs was due the growing power of china ., in fact nafta has created 8 million of well pay jobs in america for american and more wieth for america than eneything else
think about it .
you produce in mexico import and distrubute in the u.s millions of white collar jobs plus some may more for wabs "

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