NAFTA: Now I'm Really Angry
Submitted by crowbar317 on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:12am.
Now, it seems that NAFTA played a large part in Hillary winning in Ohio and Texas. Clinton (who I do not support) is calling for a trade "time-out," a policy that I have advocated for the past SIX YEARS!!
Obama (who I do support), has hedged on NAFTA a bit and is paying dearly for it, as he should.
What pisses me off, my friends, is that had NAFTA been an issue in 2000, or even 2002, something could have been done to stem the tide.
Now, in 2008, when it is really too late to change things, it is suddenly a hot topic. I am so disgusted I can't see straight...
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Please don't say "my friends"
cuz it reminds me of somebody else :-)
I don't see why it's too late to change things.
NAFTA is a Trade Agreement. Agreements can be changed, altered, or dissolved. Olbermann reported last night that 81% of the people answering an exit poll in Ohio last night thought that NAFTA was bad for the US. I suspect you'll see that in many places.
I don't see why NAFTA couldn't be altered through negotiations with the partners involved.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
I think he means that it is too late to correct
the damage that has been done. Once companies are gone from an area - especially rural areas - it's hard to attract them back. These are also areas that can't compete in the incentives wars.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
I hope Americans have had of enough cheap stuff by now
I hope we're ready to rebuild our economy on renewable resources, ingenuity in products that either fit the totally recyclable or built to last for a long time model.
I hope we don't need any more toys painted with colorful lead, food scares or fuel wasted on transporting chachkas halfway around the world to get them at the One Dollar Store.
Too many people have One Dollar jobs.
and have to rely on One Dollar stores. That has to be part of the rebuilding, or it will never work. I know you know that - I'm just compelled to add it.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
I don't see us 'rebuilding' so fast...
Betsy has a very valid point about once these places move or shut down. When all this 'free trade' was the 'way to go', and many blue collar guys thought they would be rich Republicans like Reagan, they failed to see that eventually the engineering and tech jobs would follow the manufacturing. We are still rewarding companies that build overseas and outsource the jobs from this country. We have a Congress that really listens to big business, and is so corrupt, nobody knows how to start to get us out of this tailspin which will make us a third world country. It will take more than some slogans during election years to reverse this trend.