Reply #6: The claim that these trade deals will help Americans or the US economy is total b#llcr@p.

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The economics of these trade pacts does NOT work for Americans or the U.S. economy.

The backers of these trade pacts (with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama) claim that they will generate $13 billion a year in exports. The question to ask is how big an increase in IMPORTS will they produce.

What hurts Americans is the trade DEFICIT. Increasing America's debt to pay for the increased imports will increase the devastation to the U.S. economy.

The ONLY solution to the U.S. economic problems is to limit imports of the type of goods that Americans buy on a regular basis such as clothes, shoes, appliances, electronics, linens, dishes, tools, and similar items in order to make their manufacture in the U.S. by American labor competitive.

(Parenthetically: UAW to the rest of America: We got ours -- F##k You!)

(Note to UAW members: The changes they provided to get your acquiescence to these deals will screw you, too. See the above comments.)