Bush and Kerry: Outsource America 2004 - -

Both President Bush and his challenger, John Kerry, have indicated that the effect on jobs of several free trade agreements will be an important issue in this already hot election year. While admitting that some jobs are moving overseas, President Bush claims it to be the result of a normal ebb and flow that will produce eventual benefits for Americans. Senator Kerry has pointed only to a need for stricter labor and environmental standards in future free trade pacts. Neither denies that jobs are leaving as factories close down and other jobs are "outsourced."

Birch Society Targets the Proposed FTAA - -

The John Birch Society has launched an all-out drive to combat the globalist plan to establish a 34-nation Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). More than ten years in the making, the FTAA is "designed to unite all Western Hemisphere nations except Cuba into exactly the kind of sovereignty-destroying arrangement that is costing the nations of the European Union their independence." So states John McManus, Chairman of the Society’s new campaign.