Toronado3800
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You've totally missed the point of this thread,
Which large segments are harmed by NAFTA?
Working class Americans.
I believe we still throw American Dollars into foreign countries with the intent of propping up their economies. The idea being we can win them over with love better than with our military after they have a communist or worse revolution.
Marshall Plan - Wikipedia
There is a limit to this and I would like to be looked in the face as an adult and told when we were doing it though.
That was part of the argument for Free Trade.
But the Cold War is over, and Working Class Americans have been making that sacrifice for far too long.
Time to shit can that policy.
The Cold War might be over....Wait, "over" is too strong of a term. We won an economic victory in the Cold War and Russia has not recovered. I dunno if they are neutral towards us yet.....man, I'd rather have Putin own Afghanistan than the Taliban again.... Its an uneasy relationship at best with us and Russia.
Lets just say our enemies have shifted.
There is truth we are fighting Islamic fanatics. There is truth we want capitalism to reign supreme in India where 1.3 billion, (BILLION!) potential Muslims live. It will be easier to keep them Hindi with our dollars than our soldiers even if it means outsourcing IT jobs.
We are in a cold hard competition with our new Chinese authoritarian Capitalist like trading partners. Intentional, good, bad, or whatever our dollars flowing into China and helping them build stealth aircraft have also softened that country from the one we "lost" to communism when the dominoes started to fall on Industrial Unregulated Capitalism (IUC, my term).
Then don't forget we gotta keep Mexico from going "Cuba" on us. We have to make capitalism look good there. Otherwise they'll be throwing the exploiters out and having their own 60 year Communist or worse rule. I say "have to" because we don't really want to be guarding a border with Mexico when we could have our troops stationed elsewhere. Mexico is a nice under-developed country to exploit a bit when we need to and I'd rather have a happy capitalistic Mexico to visit than one ran by drug cartels....Chinese capitalism might do them some good, but we don't want a good looking big government country right to our south....
The rambling shows why I think we let these mini-Marshall Plans go on.
I'd rather have India go marxist than have another China sized hole in our trade balance.
I rather have a strong enemy in Mexico, than a weak "friend" that is migrating it's population north.
I'll disagree. I'm thrilled not to have a border to send my children to legitimately guard against a "strong" enemy Mexico. That would tie up troops from our war on terror and drive up our debt.
Not to mention I generally think its better to have more democratic capitalist countries in the world.