We are making good progress on a Free Trade Agreement for the Americas. And I hope we can agree by the end of the year, on new customs procedures to facilitate travel and commerce across the border. The average U.S. citizen follows financial news like never before. The amount of it out there in newspapers, on TV, on the Internet, is unprecedented. The average person now has investments, and a very personal interest in economic news, like what we heard coming from Alan Greenspan today.
People have very strong opinions about trade, also.
They see the trade deficit rising, and they see people losing their jobs. And they are afraid. They don't see or understand how much trade has done for the U.S. economy as a whole. I'll be back in Chicagoland, next Monday as part of this ongoing effort which we are calling the National Trade Education Tour. We cannot allow trade issues to divide us.