Dear Senator Clinton:

Submitted by Leslie H on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 8:19pm.

Dear Senator Clinton: (0 / 0)

Hi.

My name is Leslie Hubbard.

I live in NC, near the Research Triangle park. I lost my telecom job in 2002 because of NAFTA. So did all my coworkers. It's almost 2008. I still don't make what I made in 2002. With all due respect, Senator, I can't for the life of me figure out what you find so funny about that ... numbers, charts and Ross Perot be damned.

It's pretty clear that you don't really understand the reality of OUR economy in the post-NAFTA world. God bless your husband, but clearly he don't get it neither. Y'all don't get or you've forgotten what it's like to not have enough to eat, to not have even a dollar to your name when the last cup of rice is gone and the small garden in the yard is playing out in the early weeks of fall.

Senator Edwards understood. He was my Senator in 2002. After our jobs were moved north, our application for Trade Affected worker retraining benefits was initially denied. One of my coworkers then contacted Senator Edwards' office. He took up our cause. He got us those extended benefits so we could return to the workforce.

NAFTA may be just a bunch of charts to you, but it was very nearly the ruin of me and my kids. It has been the ruin of many once-middle-class homes. I can't for the life of me figure out what you find so funny about that.

Could you please do yourself and all Americans a favor? Leave your advisers at home, get outside the DC bubble and have a look at what's going on in the real America. We're hurtin' and it ain't one goddamn bit funny.

Thanks,
Leslie H
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blueNC'er
Johnston County Democrat

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