
Free trade key to fighting poverty: Martin [KDR: It is amazing that our puppet leader can say things like this with a straight face. Lets take a look at what the great North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has done for poverty since its creation in 1994. Canada Watch 2001 - Mexico is a staggeringly poor society with over 60 percent living below or on the poverty line. To end poverty, it is necessary to tax the extremely rich. In her article, Silvia Núñez García cites the finding that 54 million out of 100 million Mexicans are living in extreme deprivation and 60 percent of those are women. Poverty rates in Canada have also grown dramatically, particularly for single mothers and for low-income families in Ontario. Twenty percent of Canadians live below or on the poverty line. Neither Canada nor Mexico shows any inclination to tax big business and the wealthy more. The Daily Texan 2004 - Over the last 20 years, Mexican wages have lost more than 80 percent of their buying power due to inflation. Related Article: San Francisco Chronicle 2004 - More Poverty as NAFTA Turns 10 I guess if Paul Martin and George Bush keep telling us that free trade is good then it must be] CBC \|\| November 6, 2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin defended free trade at the Summit of Americas in Argentina Friday, saying it's the best way to fight poverty. Martin told his fellow hemispheric leaders that the summit's original focus, the expansion of free trade, is still valid and defended the idea against critics who charge it exploits workers and the poor. "A Free Trade Agreement of the Americas is not about making the hemisphere safe for capitalists. It is about providing opportunities for our workers, and better goods and services for our consumers, from the bottom rung of the income ladder to the top. "Freer and fairer trade will lift more human beings out of poverty than all of the assistance programs in the world combined." Martin's speech contrasted with the words spoken by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who brought a crowd of thousands to its feet with a marathon speech decrying colonialism, imperialism and U.S. policy. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Chavez said the idea of creating a free trade area of the Americas is dead. "The planet "is being destroyed under our own noses by the capitalist model, the destructive engine of development," Chavez said, adding that "every day there is more hunger, more misery thanks to the neo-liberal, capitalist model." While Martin was at the summit preaching expanded free trade to opponents like Chavez, he was also trying to persuade the U.S. to comply with existing trade agreements. Earlier in the day at a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox, Martin took a thinly veiled dig at U.S. President George W. Bush's administration and its position on softwood lumber, saying free trade won't work if any one player decides to ignore the rules. "The fact is that President Fox, myself, President Bush, all of us believe strongly in the free trade of the Americas. But we know that it's got to be based on rules – and rules that are listened to," Martin said. Martin's government has criticized Washington for ignoring a NAFTA ruling that U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian softwood imports are unjustified. Home	Weekly
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Free trade key to fighting poverty: Martin

[KDR: It is amazing that our puppet leader can say things like this with a straight face. Lets take a look at what the great North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has done for poverty since its creation in 1994.

Canada Watch 2001 - Mexico is a staggeringly poor society with over 60 percent living below or on the poverty line. To end poverty, it is necessary to tax the extremely rich. In her article, Silvia Núñez García cites the finding that 54 million out of 100 million Mexicans are living in extreme deprivation and 60 percent of those are women. Poverty rates in Canada have also grown dramatically, particularly for single mothers and for low-income families in Ontario. Twenty percent of Canadians live below or on the poverty line. Neither Canada nor Mexico shows any inclination to tax big business and the wealthy more.

The Daily Texan 2004 - Over the last 20 years, Mexican wages have lost more than 80 percent of their buying power due to inflation.

Related Article: San Francisco Chronicle 2004 - More Poverty as NAFTA Turns 10

I guess if Paul Martin and George Bush keep telling us that free trade is good then it must be]

CBC || November 6, 2005

Prime Minister Paul Martin defended free trade at the Summit of Americas in Argentina Friday, saying it's the best way to fight poverty.

Martin told his fellow hemispheric leaders that the summit's original focus, the expansion of free trade, is still valid and defended the idea against critics who charge it exploits workers and the poor.

"A Free Trade Agreement of the Americas is not about making the hemisphere safe for capitalists. It is about providing opportunities for our workers, and better goods and services for our consumers, from the bottom rung of the income ladder to the top.

"Freer and fairer trade will lift more human beings out of poverty than all of the assistance programs in the world combined."

Martin's speech contrasted with the words spoken by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who brought a crowd of thousands to its feet with a marathon speech decrying colonialism, imperialism and U.S. policy.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Chavez said the idea of creating a free trade area of the Americas is dead.

"The planet "is being destroyed under our own noses by the capitalist model, the destructive engine of development," Chavez said, adding that "every day there is more hunger, more misery thanks to the neo-liberal, capitalist model."

While Martin was at the summit preaching expanded free trade to opponents like Chavez, he was also trying to persuade the U.S. to comply with existing trade agreements.

Earlier in the day at a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox, Martin took a thinly veiled dig at U.S. President George W. Bush's administration and its position on softwood lumber, saying free trade won't work if any one player decides to ignore the rules.

"The fact is that President Fox, myself, President Bush, all of us believe strongly in the free trade of the Americas. But we know that it's got to be based on rules – and rules that are listened to," Martin said.

Martin's government has criticized Washington for ignoring a NAFTA ruling that U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian softwood imports are unjustified.

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