I would say clinton was a prime mover in opening the US market to china
Which id what prompted my comments on this thread
US companies were not guiltless but government policy drove them to outsource jobs from America
To be honest, now? I'm not against free trade with the rest of the world. It was inevitable right?
BUT, like every other country, the USA needed to protect it's vital manufacturing industry. That was why our economy was doing so well. And why it struggled so much when we sent all those jobs overseas.
Like I said, Clinton put worker and environmental protections in NAFTA and Bush/Chaney removed them in the 2000's as they shipped 1 million of our best jobs overseas.
Remember the 2000's when all those high paying manufacturing jobs kept leaving our shores? Republicans blamed Unions but if you look at the 1990's you'll see For and GM were making record profits. They were paying their employees record profit sharing. So labor was getting too much. How did they fix that? Send all those jobs to China and Mexico.
AUTO manufacturing should have NEVER went overseas. Although maybe I would manufacture cars in Mexico because it's too expensive to make them here especially if you want to sell them to the rest of the world.
How about this. If you want to sell the car in America, it has to be made in America. Didn't we used to do this?
Late President George H.W. Bush leaves behind an extensive and long-lasting trade legacy, from NAFTA to initial deals with China, much of which has been under attack by President Donald Trump.
Throughout the 2016 election campaign, Trump condemned NAFTA as one of the worst trade deals in history and he has kept up that rhetoric since taking office.
Trump’s new deal, officially called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, actually keeps most of the original components in place. But it symbolically puts Trump’s populist stamp on it by relying on trade-restrictive measures, especially in the auto sector, in a bid to force more production in the United States.
