Your posts here are kind of like if the US Chamber of Commerce paid someone to post on DU while using an FDR avatar to ingratiate pro-globalization talking points on a Democratic website.
A repost of my own response to your propaganda from a May, 2012 earlier thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002648192#post11
Response to pampango (Reply #15)
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:56 PM
brentspeak (16,175 posts)
20.
The B.S. keeps piling up
Now you're even making up stuff about the same Pew poll you posted, claiming -- without any reason -- that FDR would have supported today's corporate-written "free trade" agreements of NAFTA, CAFTA, and KORUS. FDR supported trade in general, not lobbyist-overseen deals to create your beloved job-offshoring.
pampango: "You are entitled to your opinion, but I do not share it. I think FDR..,would still support the same trade policy (i.e. NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.)"
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/ajb/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Reciprocal_Tariff_Act.html
The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (enacted June 12, 1934, ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943, 19 U.S.C. § 1351) provided for the negotiation of tariff agreements between the United States and separate nations, particularly Latin American countries. The Act served as an institutional reform intended to authorize the president to negotiate with foreign nations to reduce tariffs in return for reciprocal reductions in tariffs in the United States. It resulted in a reduction of duties.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was authorized by the Act for a fixed period of time to negotiate on bilateral basis with other countries and then implement reductions in tariffs (up to 50% of existing tariffs) in exchange for compensating tariff reductions by the partner trading country. Roosevelt was also instructed to maximize market access abroad
without jeopardizing domestic industry, and reduce tariffs only as necessary to promote exports in accord with the "needs of various branches of American production.".
Therefore, FDR's trade policy was the
opposite of today's free trade agreements, which are authored deliberately to relocate domestic industry to overseas facilities and which are not required at all to consider domestic American production.
My question to you is: How much longer are you going to continue slandering FDR for your own agenda on these boards?
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