Write Your Congressman
If you write to Congressman Pete Sessions through his
web page at http://www.house.gov/sessions, you might get a reply that
DR-CAFTA, the latest gobblelization scheme, is going to be really great
for working Americans. If you reply, the e-mail bounces. Here's the
one I tried to send:
Dear Congressman,
Thank you for replying to my concerns about CAFTA. Please
note that these
exact arguments were made about NAFTA, and it turned out to be pretty
much
all lies. The source of those lies, then and now, was the US Chamber
of
Commerce, which you are citing once again. If they ever had any credibility,
it is long gone. People who do have some credibility about this include
my
friends who work(ed) for Carrier Air Conditioners in Waxahachie before
they
moved their umpteenth plant to Mexico and dumped 600 North Texans into
lives of
desperation and unemployment.
Your reply indicates that immigration problems would lessen
under CAFTA, but
you must know better. The statistics for all industrialized countries,
and
the corroboration of my friends who are actually immigrants, is that
neoliberalization exacerbates immigration problems. People in Guatemala
are
getting killed because they oppose CAFTA, and you must surely be aware
of
it.
Your reply indicates that democracy would be served by
CAFTA, and yet you
must know that the democratic movement in Latin America is almost completely
driven by opposition to neoliberalization. You must know that the most
repressive means by the most repressive governments are being taken
to quash
opposition to the very thing you are claiming as an asset for democracy!
Your reply indicates that a rule of law would be strengthened
under CAFTA.
But you must know that CAFTA, like NAFTA, provides the means for secretly
and undemocratically overriding the existing laws of the nations concerned.
The fact that you can quote the neoliberalizing ideologues
as "sources of
fact" is hardly convincing, but shows that, in fact, there is no
real
evidence that the American people will benefit from your supporting
CAFTA.
Please reconsider.
Sincerely,