McCain: Out of Touch on Trade

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Source: http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/05/21/mccain-out-of-touch-on-trade/

At a speech in Florida yesterday, Sen. John McCain made a baffling pronouncement: The rising discontent in our country is not due to job losses, home foreclosures or the health care crisis, but rather the fact that we aren’t passing a bad trade deal with Colombia.

Here’s what McCain had to say at yesterday’s event:

We have made progress toward this vision by expanding the benefits of free commerce, through , the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and our free trade agreements with Peru and Chile. But the progress has stalled; our longstanding bipartisan commitment to hemispheric prosperity is crumbling. We see this most vividly in Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the free trade agreement with Colombia. The failure of Congress to take up and approve this agreement is a reminder why 80 percent of Americans think we are on the wrong track.

What country is he living in?

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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says McCain’s comments on Colombia show he just doesn’t get it.

John McCain glossed over horrific human rights abuses and the deaths of hundreds of Colombian union activists today when he urged Congress to pass the Bush administration’s ill-conceived Colombian trade pact. Workers in Colombia are targeted for violence and blocked from joining unions to lift their lives and prevent exploitation, making fair trade impossible. In fact, Colombia remains the most dangerous country in the world to be a union member. The fact that McCain believes not passing Bush’s bad trade deal with Colombia is the reason Americans think we’re on the wrong track is a measure of how out of touch he’s become with working people’s concerns.

If McCain wants to be taken seriously by working families, he needs to listen to their concerns. They want an economy that works for everyone, not lockstep support of bad trade deals. Workers here and around the world deserve a fair trade policy that protects jobs and the freedom to form unions.

On Edit: Full story at link

What country is he living in? How about WHAT PLANET?

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