US Senator seeks free trade with India (Frist)

< 15 Dec, 2006 1233hrs ISTIANS >

WASHINGTON: An influential Republican Senator has asked President George Bush to negotiate a full-scale free trade agreement with India following the successful conclusion of the India-US civil nuclear deal.

"While it's a good beginning, however, we can't let this energy agreement stand alone," retiring Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who played a key role in getting the enabling India nuclear bill passed by the lame duck Congress, said.

"Should it come to fruition, a US-India free trade agreement would comprise over a quarter of the world's economy - the largest free trade zone in history. A free trade agreement with India, quite simply, is a national imperative. We should start work towards one without delay," he said in a commentary in The Examiner daily.

While the US and India have committed to a goal of doubling trade within the next three years, even that level would lie far below the potential, Frist said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_Senator_seeks_free_trade_with_India/articleshow/817891.cms

:mad:

already have our jobs, what's left?

I shudder to think. :scared:

as a lobbyist. Another Republican that is ready, willing and able to throw our country under a bus for his/her ow enrichment. I hope the new Democratic majority makes people like Frist extinct, but I'm dreaming. These swine will always find a way to divert America's money and power to their clients. Frist is just practicing for his place at the money trough.

gaveled the Senate closed just a few days ago?

And if he is just a private citizen, he should just STFU!!!

Write an op-ed if he feels like it, or blog someplace.

FORMER US Senator Frist?

Now go away. You lost. Remember?

Or wait for India to call me with a great mortgage package!

Kinda funny how these "free-trade" agreements usually wind up being a one-way street, eh?