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Forum Free Trade Agreement is Expensive US businesses arc hailing the proposed North American Iree Trade Agreement as a significant boon that will benefit all three countries involved. Hut U.S. labor unions and Florida's commissioner of agriculture are among those opposing the proposed agree ' ment, citing a devastating effect it wiH have-on employment and the Florida agriculture indus try. If approved by the governments of the United States, Canada and Mexico, the r NAFTA. "Crawford added, "This is not the right trade agreement." In an emotional appeal, Crawford told the committee: "You see, Florida fanners can iecover from an act of God. They're well practiced at it. They know it comes with the territory. But they don't understand how their own government can intentionally impose this kind of double-whammy..A "second storm" with just as powerful an economic punch." He told the panel: "It sacrifices jobs that we will AGAINST THE GRAIN By ROOSEVELT WILSON never recover. And it sacrifices our agricul tural self-suf f i c i e n c y . Simply stated, we will lose the ability to feed NAFTA would go into effect Jan I, 1994, and would remove ail tauits and ofher barriers 10 trade, services and investment among the three countt ies. creating the world's largest free trade zone. It allows 1 '.S. automakers, fir exam ple, to trade fiee.ly with Mexico andflCanada, and it eliminates tough restrictions on U.S. auto makers, for example, to trade freely with Mexico and Canada, and it eliminates tough restrictions on ' J.S. auto exports to Mexico, In addition, representatives from heavy equip ment, computer and pharmaceutical industries say the pact will make them more competitive on the vvoiUI market. Labor unions and envi ronmental groups opposed the pact, however, saying it will eliminate American jobs as busi ness relocate to Mexico to take advantage of the lower wages. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Bob Crawford lashed out at the agreement in testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture last month, comparing the agreement's economic blow to Hurricane Andrew. " The single biggest obstacle we face in convincing (Florida) fanners to replace and rebuild after Hurricane Andrew. ..is Hurricane our own people. Crawford and Florida's agribusiness ? leaders urge Congress to vote against the agreement unless it is modified to take into consideration its impact on Florida's agricul ture industry. By the government's own formula, the agreement will cost Florida one-third of its $6 billion agriculture industry and some 54,000 jobs. What's free about that trade agree ment? Floridians, and perhaps North Car olinians, indeed need to take a look at the agreement and encourage our congressional leaders to examine closely its impact on the Sunshine State. Across this nation - at every football game, on every college and school campus, at churches, in grocery store - people are joining hands contributing to the Hurricane Andrew relief efforts, trying to help Floridians get back on their feet. Why, then is the Bush administration, meanwhile, trying to ram through a "Free" trade agreement that could effectively bank rupt these same Floridians and other agricul tural states? - Perot Champions Black Cause While Bush and Clinton Ignore It ?>?ii i',f ?( r>,,: ? /prf , T >n i f? ^ ; i .? r?<T i j . Ross Perot's entry into the presidential race has disrupted the tacit agreement between Gov. Rill Clinton and President George Bush to evade the two most important problems in America today: the federal deficit and the Third World condition of many U.S. Blacks, caused by institutional racism and poverty. An irony of all ironies, Clinton, the governor of one of only two states without a civil rights law, is carrying the Black vote by a 15 to 1 margin over Bush who rarely refers to Blacks at all. Democrats go after the Black and Brown votes. Republicans go after the White vote, "Perot writes. When he updates his book, me may mention that the Democrats in 1992 have also adopted the strategy of "Whites Only." Perot has explains that we cannot win the economic competition with the rest of the world if we do not do it as a team; that's why racism and racial strife will hurt us all. "We're stuck with one another." "Where there are disadvantages, we must put our brains and our resources into helping people overcome them. We must put a ladder f * ? ? - ? down into TONY BROWN Syndicated Columnist the worst area of our inner cities," the Texas billionaire chal lenges White Amer ica. Both the Democrat and Republican candidates fear losing vytes from White peo ple if they show compassion for Blacks (or even mention them) and both are more inter ested in their political careers than in the eco nomic viability and future of the country. Therefore, they make promises of something for nothing, knowing they will get more votes than by offering the sacrifice and pain pre scription of Ross Perot. Even Perot's staunchest critics admit that his economic program, demanding sacri fice and discipline, offers more realistic hope for long term growth than either Bush's or Clinton's plan. But still neitlier will discuss in public what this country is doing torBlack people. Ironically, the man now famous in the minds of most Blacks for his "you people" gaffe at the NAACP convention, has the gen uine approach to solving the problems that afflict Blacks specifically. His plan for doing so is contained- in his book, "United We Stand," that explains his proposals for reducing the deficit and increasing I1 S productivity. 'Our two political parties try to divide our country to win elections. I he "If you're White," Perot pleads with the reader of his hook, "read my position here and in Chapter Five. Show it to friends who are Black or Hispanic or Asian, and ask them to think it over." "Is it enough? What more can we do? Argue over it. This is the kind of open, positive debate we've avoided for too long, "Perot exhorts. Because of Ross Perot, all Ameri cans have won, no matter who wins the elec tion, because he has forced Bush and Clinton to address our number one economic prob lem. Blacks specifically, and the entire nation, will also win if he can also coerce Bush and Clinton to admit that Blacks are cit izens of the United States. "The melting pot is our strength, not our weakness,," Ross Perot reminds the Democrats and the Republicans. 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