COME TELL PRESIDENT BUSH THAT HIS “FREE TRADE” ECONOMY DOESN’T WORK FOR WORKERS, THE ENVIRONMENT, OR DEMOCRACY!

This Monday February 16th, 8.00 AM meet at the corner of Waters/Anderson at Perkins Restaurant)
Event at NuAir Manufacturing 8105 Anderson Road Tampa, FL 33634-2319

President Bush will be in Tampa to have a “conversation on the economy.” The Florida Fair Trade Coalition, challenges the President to a 15 minute discussion with those who say
“You are wrong Mr. President – and our lives are testimony to that!”

Let’s not let Bush be the only one talking!
Join the Florida Fair Trade Coalition, The West Central FL Central Labor Council, APWU 259, various student groups, members of the Fl Alliance for Retired Americans, and others in challenging the President to a real discussion about how workers, small farm owners, retirees, students, environmentalists, and those who believe in democracy feel about his Free Trade economy. While Bush makes a campaign stop to talk about “his economy” we’ll be there to tell the Real truth – our lives are our testimony!
Last year's Economic Report of the President predicted that 1.7 million jobs would be created in 2003. Instead, the nation lost 53,000 jobs. In Bush's three years in office, 2.2 million jobs have disappeared.

And his plan for economic security? Social Security also must be restructured to let workers put part of their retirement funds in private accounts, the report argues. Doing so could add nearly $5 trillion to the national debt by 2036, the president's adviser’s note.

In Bush's three years in office, 2.2 million people have lost their jobs!

Let's ask:

Why the President seeks to expand NAFTA, which has cost Floridians over 27,000 jobs and 1,000 small farms, throughout Central America under CAFTA and the whole western hemisphere under the FTAA?
Why N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, embraced outsourcing (shipping jobs overseas) in a recent report saying “Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade…and that’s a good thing.”?
Why the President, in his proposed budget for fiscal year 2005, has cut funds for international labor rights programs by 82%, down from $99.5 million in this fiscal year to $18 million?
What the President plans to do about the trend of dropping wages?
What the president has changed in his economic strategy since last year, when he predicted 1.3 million jobs would be created in 2003, only 53,000 were?

For more information, contact The Florida Fair Trade Coalition (727) 896-8224 email info@flfairtrade.org  or on the web www.flfairtrade.org


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