If the union pursued the strategy that I'm suggesting the union would end up in front of the Supreme Court. Particularly if the disparity of treatment angle were played correctly. The Supreme Court would be forced to chose between the civil rights of American citizens and the rights of foreign citizens to an American citizen's job and civil rights. Somehow I can't imagine the Supreme Court ruling against an American citizen's civil right to a job or any other civil right that is infringed on by an agreement such as NAFTA.
After what's gone down I think we should be ready to rumble while we still can!
Possibly you recall the old joke about the Russian's German rocket scientists being smarter than our German rocket scientists.
Tom Lehman
Brad De Long wrote:
> > > the
> > > constitution doesn't know about executive agreements, and treaties
> > > have a 2/3 majority requirement for a reason...
> > > The post-WWII slide from treaties to "executive agreements" has
> > > always seemed to me to be one of the common-law constitutional
> > > amendments that has the least going for it...
> > > Brad DeLong
> >
> >Washington was first president to use EA, while there has been greater
> >willingness to use them in last fifty years
>
> Yep.
>
> > (about 95% of all US
> >international agreements, of which there have been more than 10,000),
> >presidents between 1839-1889 signed more agreements than treaties (238-
> >215) and those between 1889-1929 signed twice as many of former (763-382)
>
> From 30% to 55% to 70% to 95% is a big slide--and from "little" to
> "big" issues as well...
>
> Brad
>
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> "Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory
> of money] is probably true.... But this long run is a misleading
> guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we are all dead.
> Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in
> tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long
> past the ocean is flat again."
>
> --J.M. Keynes
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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