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US Congress votes through South Korea trade deal

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US lawmakers have approved a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, calling it the most significant in 16 years.
Both houses of Congress voted in quick succession on Wednesday to approve the agreement, as well as pacts with Panama and Colombia.
It will now go to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
The agreement is expected to increase US exports to the Asian economy by as much as $10bn (£6.5bn).

The free-trade deal with South Korea is the largest US trade pact since it signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994.
BBC News - US Congress votes through South Korea trade deal

"The agreement is expected to increase US exports to the Asian economy by as much as $10bn" This sounds like a good thing to me. What do you think?
 
Not to mention Colombia and Panama.

Could someone please poke me with a cattle prod, I'm not quite sure this is real, as Congress actually got something done.
 
Look at this...they may even cut farm subsidies a little bit WOW

Deal close on cut in farm subsidies - David Rogers - POLITICO.com

Congress on Wednesday approved three long-stalled free-trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.


Congress OKs 3 trade deals - Seung Min Kim - POLITICO.com

They have no choice on the subsidies. Either they agree on what to cut or they automatically get cut. We can thank those who held their ground in the budget battle for that.

It's funny, you demeaned those who did that but now are cheering on their results. :shrug:
 
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They have no choice on the subsidies. Either they agree on what to cut or they automatically get cut. We can thank those who held their ground in the budget battle for that.

It's funny, you demeaned those who did that but now are cheering on their results. :shrug:

I never demeaned ever...any attempts to cut legitimate budget items...my complaint was and IS cutting everything middleclass and poor and giving it to the rich...
Im all for cutting all subsidies....and cutting departmental budgets etc.
 
Cool maybe we can one of those Hitler Techno and Cocktail Bars over here now :mrgreen:
 
I never demeaned ever...any attempts to cut legitimate budget items...my complaint was and IS cutting everything middleclass and poor and giving it to the rich...
Im all for cutting all subsidies....and cutting departmental budgets etc.

Do I need to go back and post all the things you said about those who held their line on the budget battle? Read the article. The reason for this happening is because of their actions.
 
Finally a deal.
Actually, I would have been quite surprised if it didn't pass through
 
1Perry, the problem is not the cutting - everybody wants cuts, but we don't all agree about where the cuts need to be made.

For me, cuts in farm aid is not a reason for celebration - failing to cut the most egregious groups suckling on the government teat (likely because they are also the biggest GOP contributors) while trying to cut Medicare, Social Security, education, healthcare and aid to the largest group producing American made products (farmers) is not what I support.
 
1Perry, the problem is not the cutting - everybody wants cuts, but we don't all agree about where the cuts need to be made.

For me, cuts in farm aid is not a reason for celebration - failing to cut the most egregious groups suckling on the government teat (likely because they are also the biggest GOP contributors) while trying to cut Medicare, Social Security, education, healthcare and aid to the largest group producing American made products (farmers) is not what I support.

Your partisanship is dismissable.
 
I've read the rave reviews of this trade agreement.

We'll see if it delivers. I'll be surprised if it doesn't deliver the same results as previous free trade agreements, though.
 
1Perry, the problem is not the cutting - everybody wants cuts, but we don't all agree about where the cuts need to be made.

For me, cuts in farm aid is not a reason for celebration - failing to cut the most egregious groups suckling on the government teat (likely because they are also the biggest GOP contributors) while trying to cut Medicare, Social Security, education, healthcare and aid to the largest group producing American made products (farmers) is not what I support.

If you're refering to "Big Oil" they contribute heavily to government, not the GOP exclusively. I'm so incredibly tired of this psuedo-partyline pandering nonsense. When you have an unsustainable program you fix the program. That may mean "cuts", but that doesn't have to mean "cut in benefits". Of course, it has become common practice on both sides of the aisle (and on both sides of the peanut gallery) to spew panic-laden nonsense about cutting benefits, cutting teachers, cutting the most necessary part of the program as a means of balancing the books. And we eat it up. We repeat it. The reality is, there is no department, program, entitlement, or budgetary item in which waste does not exist. There is no department, program, entitlement, or budgetary item that could not benefit from drastic overhauls in technology and efficiency. So when the cuts are made (and they need to be made to everything, not just the crap people don't like), they should be made in a effective, practical manner.

The fact that they aren't should say something about the administration of that particular area of government focus, not on the legislators or people asking for cuts. Here in Texas we cut police, teachers, firefighters...while administrative staff make 1.5 - 2 times the base salary of their private-sector counterparts, plus all of the benefits of being a state employee (pension, discounted healthcare costs, etc). We cut teachers, police, and firefighters while one school district went out and bought fully loaded SUVs at 35k so that the ladies who travels between three schools for speech therapy and occupational therapy wouldn't have to drive their own cars the 15 total miles each day (about $1400 a year in mileage reimbursements if they use their own car, as opposed to the 35k for the car, plus the registration, inspection, and insurance).

So instead of acting like any program is the holy grail of programs, and instead of dancing around throwing the opposition under the bus for calling for cuts, why don't we look at the reality of the situation? The money is not being spent in the best manner, and the cuts are not being handled appropriately. Don't fall for the fear-inducing nonsense that we have to resort to extremes when spending must decrease.

And for the love of god, stop acting like the only people guilty of something you dislike is the opposition. Neither side of the coin can be held up as a paradigm of virtue.
 
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Do I need to go back and post all the things you said about those who held their line on the budget battle? Read the article. The reason for this happening is because of their actions.

Perry what part of I never complained about cutting things other than items that directly effected the working class middle class or poor..now if some of those that did that were involved in other cuts that I disagreed with I may very well have hammered them...and I shall again..
 
Perry what part of I never complained about cutting things other than items that directly effected the working class middle class or poor..now if some of those that did that were involved in other cuts that I disagreed with I may very well have hammered them...and I shall again..

Join the group that avoids my arguement and makes one up to argue against.

This is only happening because they are forced to do it by those who would not agree to raising the debt limit without an agreement on cuts. You slammed those who did that endlessly.

I never said a word about what you thought should be cut.
 
We can get that here in Canada

At a better price then Ichiban noodles too

I dont like the hot and spicy though as it causes my nose to run, which while eating noodles I dont like

Weird, that kind of ramen (Shin ramen) is my favorite ramen brand, because it's spicy, the noodles are perfect (in terms of thickness), and the soup is also delicious.
However, my tastes are unusual, because many complain about it being too spicy, even in Korea
 
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