DOBBS: Tonight, a proposal for an expanded so-called free trade zone from Alaska to the tip of South America. It’s a plan from the business elites, the political elites, that will cost more American jobs, cost more American sovereignty, but it would fulfill the president’s father’s vision. <\/p>\n
Bill Tucker reports. <\/p>\n
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It’s not a new idea. President Bush talked about it back in 1991. <\/p>\n
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, FMR. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is a big idea, a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause. <\/p>\n
TUCKER: Now former United States trade investor Robert Zoellick is talking about it again with renewed vigor. This time, a new world order with business at the helm of trade and economic policy. Advocating what he calls the Association of American Free Trade Agreements, a separate nongovernment entity which would include North, Central, and South America. <\/p>\n
ROBERT SCOTT. ECONOMIC POLICY INST.: What Zoellick is really proposing here is a stealth trade agenda. It’s not a national agenda. He’s proposing to set up what is essentially a private organization to try to achieve what he couldn’t get done when he was the U.S. trade representative. And this is a business agenda. <\/p>\n
TUCKER: It’s an agenda that goes hand in hand with the United States, Mexico, and Canada, working quietly and behind the scenes to promote a common market with common deregulation for the benefit of multinational corporations. It’s an agenda that so far has resulted in an increase in U.S. corporate profits of 45 percent, while wages of American workers have risen only 3 percent in the last five years. <\/p>\n
ALAN TONELSON, U.S. BUSINESS & INDUSTRY COUNCIL: The main danger raised by Zelic’s (ph) proposal is that the future of American international economic policy, which affects not only our nation’s prosperity but its national security, will be set not by the American people and their elected representatives, but by a small corporate elite is that accountable to no one but itself. <\/p>\n
TUCKER: Effectively surrendering the sovereignty of the United States. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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