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What Others Think About Globalization: 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidates (Republicans) |
| Published On: 09-17-2007 |
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The following are quotes, voting records, and interviews with the 2008 Republican, U.S. presidential candidates on globalization and free trade.
Senator Sam Brownback
Voting Record on Free Trade:
- Voted YES on free trade agreement with Oman. (Jun 2006)
- Voted YES on implementing CAFTA for Central America free-trade. (Jul 2005)
- Voted YES on establishing free trade between US & Singapore. (Jul 2003)
- Voted YES on establishing free trade between the US and Chile. (Jul 2003)
- Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam. (Oct 2001)
- Voted YES on removing common goods from national security export rules. (Sep 2001)
- Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. (Sep 2000)
- Voted YES on expanding trade to the third world. (May 2000)
- Voted YES on renewing 'fast track' presidential trade authority. (Nov 1997)
Source: http://www.ontheissues.org/Free_Trade.htm
Rudy Giuliani
Interview with Rudy Giuliani, June 14, 2007
Globalization is one of the best things for our future. It's something we have to embrace…
This is great news for America, the people who are coming out of poverty in China and in India…Here's the way I look at 20 to 30 million coming out of poverty in China and India - 20 or 30 million more customers, more people we can sell things to. More people where we can take the value-added that America has and build on that.
This shouldn't - for a country like ours, that's an optimistic, entrepreneurial country, we should be cheering globalization. This is a great thing for America. And we've got to take advantage of it. And we need leaders who can show us how to take advantage of it.
I have another commitment on energy independence. Energy independence - if we can make that a major focus of American policy for the next five to 10 years, there's a great industry for us to sell to China and India.
They need energy independence. We should be able to figure out how to produce it. And then we can sell it to them. And yes, we can buy things from them.
But if we can figure out these industries we can sell to them, or processes we can sell to them, it'll benefit us, it'll benefit them and it'll be one of the great ways in which we grow…
With people who have lost their jobs, we should be helping them. We should help them transition. Not - we shouldn't be helping the way the Democrats want to help them, by looking in the rearview mirror, by trying to go back…
But looking in the rearview mirror is not the way to help American workers. It's looking forward.
What are the new jobs you can do? How can we train them for it? What are the new industries? What are the things we can sell to this emerging market? America, when it has a positive spirit, it grows. When it gets into this protectionism thing, we really decline.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/
2007/06/interview_with_rudy_giuliani_5.html
Mike Huckabee
I've also said we don't have free trade if you don't have fair trade and it's not fair trade if they're not abiding by the same rules and regulations that we are." "We can't even trust toothpaste [from China]. We have contaminated food and now contaminated toys that are coming here because they're so just adamant about making profits and producing enormous levels of goods and getting them into our marketplace that they haven't been as careful, making sure those products have the same level of safety that they would if they were manufactured here.
Source: The Wall Street Journal (Aug. 18, 2007)
Representative Duncan Hunter
American workers are the most productive and innovative labor force in the world. Unfortunately, they are asked to compete in an unfair environment against other workers who make only a fraction of a living wage and are employed by companies that face few, if any, responsibilities to the environment or the long-term prospects of their employees. Our domestic manufacturers are forced to compete against foreign companies that benefit from their country’s currency and regulatory regimes. Ominously, China is cheating on trade and using billions of American trade dollars to build ships, planes and missiles at an alarming rate while, at the same time, taking millions of American jobs. I will reverse this “one-way street” with a new policy of fair trade for the American worker.
Source: http://www.gohunter08.com/inner.asp?z=11
Senator John McCain
Lowering barriers to trade creates more and better jobs and higher wages. It keeps inflation under control. It keeps mortgage and other interest rates low. It makes goods more affordable for low- and middle-income consumers. Protectionism threatens all those benefits. I know that open markets don't automatically translate into a higher quality of life for every single American. As President Reagan said, freedom includes the continuous revolution of the marketplace. Change is hard. It isn't government's job to spend millions preserving products and services that we can't sell anymore, but it is government's job to help workers get the education and training they need for the new jobs that will be created by new business in this new century..
Source: Dowagiac Daily News (MI) (July 24, 2007)
Representative Ron Paul
Free trade. I’m for free trade. Although I’m not for the type of system that we have today because I don’t believe it’s my concept of free trade. I do not believe that the Congress should ever have the authority to pass this authority to the president. And on things like on fast track and then president devises agreements that serve the interests of the special interests.
…Where our problem gets into are these managed trade agreements under the WTO and under NAFTA and the plan for a North American Union. These are the kind of movements I think are very detrimental to national sovereignty. I don’t think it helps our workers.
And in combination with our monetary policy we are now exporting our jobs due to a flawed trade policy and actually a flawed foreign policy because we have allowed too much power to gravitate to the executive branch, and the Congress won’t live up to their responsibilities. The Congress is supposed to be protecting us, protecting and guarding against our liberties…
Do I not believe we can solve all our trade problems unless we eventually look at monetary policy. Because when we have the privilege of printing the reserve currency of the world, we abuse this, we print the money and no wonder the jobs go overseas because they take our dollars…
…I’d get rid of NAFTA and WTO, for that matter. I certainly don’t want a North American Union and I’m sick of these plans for this highway coming through here that’s going to go from Mexico to Canada. That’s not my idea of national sovereignty.
Source: CNN: Lou Dobbs Interview: April 24th 2007
http://mrspickles.wordpress.com/
2007/04/24/ron-paul-2008-on-lou-dobbs-talking-about-free-trade/
Mitt Romney
"We have to keep our markets open or we go the way of Russia and the Soviet Union, which is a collapse. And I recognize there are some people who will argue for protectionism because the short-term benefits sound pretty good, but long term you kill your economy, you kill the future. What you have to do in order to compete on a global basis long term is invest in education, invest in technology, reform our immigration laws to bring in more of the brains from around the world, eliminate the waste in our government. We have to use a lot less oil. These are the kinds of features you have to invest in, you have to change in order to make ourselves competitive long term."
Source: CNBC Kudlow & Company (March 22, 2007)
Representative Tom Tancredo
Free Trade Voting Record
- Fast track authority should not be renewed. (Sep 2007)
- Voted NO on implementing CAFTA, Central America Free Trade. (Jul 2005)
- Voted YES on implementing US-Australia Free Trade Agreement. (Jul 2004)
- Voted NO on implementing US-Singapore free trade agreement. (Jul 2003)
- Voted NO on implementing free trade agreement with Chile. (Jul 2003)
- Voted YES on withdrawing from the WTO. (Jun 2000)
- End economic protectionism: let dairy compacts expire . (Aug 2001)
Source: http://activote.ontheissues.org/AVA/Tom_Tancredo.htm
Fred Dalton Thompson
On globalization -- we're not afraid of it. It works to our benefit. We innovate more and invest in that innovation better than anywhere else in the world. Same thing goes for services, which are increasingly driving our economy. Free trade and market economies have done more for freedom and prosperity than a central planner could ever dream and we're the world's best example of that. So, why do we want to take investment dollars out of growth, and invest it in government?
Source: Speech to Lincoln Club Annual Dinner, Orange County CA May 4, 2007 |
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