CPA will be providing important data for the 2010 election on Congressional districts across the country.  We are working on the project now at our Worldwide Conglomerate Headquarters (WCH for short).  But here is an interesting map on the CPA website where you can zoom in and out of Congressional…

Merry Christmas to all of you. Enjoy your family.  Enjoy your friends.  Or just enjoy your time off. Thanks to all of you who have engaged in debate here, helping refine and spread ideas. Thanks to all of you who are helping make this a better country.

Burl Finklestein is a CPA member in Georgia.  ****** The Atlanta Journal Constitution December 21, 2009 Op-ed Burl Finklestein, Exec. VP, Kason Industries Can the president create jobs in a languishing economy by promoting small business?  I don’t think he will.  While it is true that small businesses are the…

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Dear Friends:

The date is approaching!  Please join us on December 8, 2009, in
Mars, PA for "A Rising Tide", CPA’s first annual fundraising event and
membership drive.

"A Rising Tide" is a FREE event for people to come and learn
about how the Coalition for a Prosperous America is working to improve
trade policy, the American economy and our future.

Dear Friends:

The date is approaching!  Please join us on December 8, 2009, in
Mars, PA for "A Rising Tide", CPA’s first annual fundraising event and
membership drive.

"A Rising Tide" is a FREE event for people to come and learn
about how the Coalition for a Prosperous America is working to improve
trade policy, the American economy and our future.

Dear Friends:

The date is approaching!  Please join us on December 8, 2009, in
Mars, PA for "A Rising Tide", CPA’s first annual fundraising event and
membership drive.

"A Rising Tide" is a FREE event for people to come and learn
about how the Coalition for a Prosperous America is working to improve
trade policy, the American economy and our future.

Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day October 3, 1863 The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.  To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been…

One of CPA’s major concerns is that trade policy has trumped food and product safety.  We allow importation of food and manufactured goods that do not meet U.S. quality standards, because trade flows are deemed more important than safety.

In the animal health world, the U.S. historically banned imports of cattle, pigs and sheep from countries that have known cases of foot and mouth disease, blue tongue and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease).

But when BSE was discovered in Canada, our U.S. Department of Agriculture decided that trade was more important than U.S. animal health. The multinational meatpackers successfully persuaded USDA to keep the border to Canada open, to a large degree.  The U.S. had three BSE cases starting in 2003, with cattle originating in Canada.  Other countries cut off our export sales, but we allowed Canada to ship cattle to us.  The U.S. beef and cattle market has suffered drastically because our borders are open to imports, but other doors are not open to our exports.

Thus, we are a major net importer of cattle and beef.

CPA agreed to sign on to a letter to the USDA protesting this policy.  R-CALF USA, a major U.S. cattle producer organization and CPA member, initiated the letter.  It is below the fold.

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Please join us on December 8, 2009, in Mars, PA for “A Rising Tide”, CPA’s first annual fundraising event and membership drive.

“A Rising Tide” is a FREE event for people to come and learn about how the Coalition for a Prosperous America is working to improve trade policy, the American economy and our future.