I want to be brief, but I speak here with frustration. I've seen broken promises when NAFTA was instituted. I've seen Mexico gain a 65 percent market share of the winter vegetable business in Florida when they had 35 percent before NAFTA. I've seen 200 Florida farm families go out of business since NAFTA. I've seen misrepresentation, either direct or indirect. United States government assures us that we eat the safest produce in the world, and we do if it's grown in America.

The stuff that comes in from Mexico is grown with bad chemicals, child labor, filthy unsanitary conditions and is mixed into the same bin in Washington, D.C. or New York City. You don't have a choice. I note that the biggest supplier of illegal drugs to America, Mexico, an historically corrupt country, now is supplying the majority of produce in America. With a devaluation of the peso, Mexico is quick to dump produce below cost, further depressing the prices American farmers receive.

I'm not happy with a trade policy that allows a 19 billion dollar a month deficit in February and March of this year. I fail to see how that benefits this country. We're the richest country in the world. We didn't get that way through a one world economy that sucks 19 billions a month out of the United States.

Our current trade policy benefits multi-national companies and foreign countries, while it devastates the American working man and farmer. There should be no extension of our free trade policy until the current inequities are fixed and becomes free and fair trade like these other farmers said. We'll compete with farmers anywhere in the world but it's got to be a level playing field. Thank you.

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