In the same hearings referred to above, Mickey Kantor said that America's economic future depends on our ability to compete in a Global Economy. He also said the playing field in world trade has been made unlevel for American industry and the G.A.T.T. creates a level playing field. Kantor's rhetoric truly is a fine example of the Dialectic: The "unlevel" playing field was created in previous trade agreements providing justification for the "new" agreement. However, for decades the playing field has been slanted in favor of foreign industry, so the whole scheme is a blatant lie.
Kantor also said the American people will realize a $36 billion decrease in taxes. When asked specifically if he was saying there would be a $36 billion decrease in income taxes he responded, "Well, no… not exactly. This figure is projected from the expected decrease in the cost of goods coming from other countries".
Kantor insisted that we [America] could set any environmental and health standards we want, but he didn't explain other countries could cross retaliate. He placed an inordinate emphasis on the protection of intellectual property, using as an example the billions of dollars a CD by Whitney Houston brought in from abroad, and the loss of revenues when these types of properties are "pirated".
Loss of revenues to whom? Who gets the billions of dollars from a Whitney Houston CD? American workers? Not many we would guess. Again, the profits go to the rich.
Even if Kantor were an honest, up-front individual, it is frightening to consider that any one man -- an appointed bureaucrat at that -- is responsible for a World Trade Agreement that will effect the lives of every single American. As an appointed bureaucrat he isn't answerable to the electorate, but only to -- outwardly -- President Bill Clinton. In reality Clinton is merely a talking head for the International gang which pulls his strings.
The following article from The Milwaukee Journal, 7-13-94, pg A5, says it all regarding the alleged benefit for America under the GATT-WTO. The headline reads:
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