Trump is Correct: Clinton's NAFTA Treaty Harms America

[JimBowie1958]

Mexico has engaged in currency manipulation, collapsing the peso within months of the deal going into force.

There are plenty of other critics of NAFTA as well for a million reasons.

With NAFTA, the Rich got richer and the crooked got crookeder.

Why NAFTA is Bad for the U.S. | Economy In Crisis

When we examine the details of the “free trade” agreement, it is easy to see why it has caused so much devastation. From toxic imports to the flooding of illegal immigrants, NAFTA has all but decimated the United States.

Week after week we hear about recalls of imports, including imports from Mexico and Canada. ...

Because of NAFTA, American workers are now forced to compete directly with Mexican workers who, on average, make just $3 per hour. Their American counterparts make $18 per hour. .....

We had a small trade surplus with Mexico in 1993 before signing onto NAFTA. By 2007, 14 years after signing NAFTA, that surplus turned into a $91 billion deficit with Mexico. ....

Illegal immigrants in the U.S. have increased to 12 million today from 3.9 million in 1993, accounting for an overall increase of over 300 percent. Since NAFTA was implemented, 300,000 American family farms have been put out of business. Overall, net farm incomes are down 13 percent.....

The cruel reality of NAFTA is that it does not benefit the American worker. In fact, it encourages our jobs to leave the country in pursuit of lower wage rates, non-existent environmental standards and trade without restrictions.

NAFTA was a disaster when it was passed by Congress, a disaster when it was enacted and it remains a disaster today.

 

[JimBowie1958]

NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Higher Income Inequality

For NAFTA’s unhappy 20th anniversary, Public Citizen has published a report that details the wreckage. Not only did promises made by NAFTA’s proponents not materialize, but many results are exactly the opposite.

Such outcomes include a staggering $181 billion U.S. trade deficit with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada and the related loss of 1 million net U.S. jobs under NAFTA, growing income inequality, displacement of more than one million Mexicancampesino farmers and a doubling of desperate immigration from Mexico, and more than $360 million paid to corporations after “investor-state” tribunal attacks on, and rollbacks of, domestic public interest policies.

The study makes for a blood-boiling read. For instance, we track the specific promises made by U.S. corporations like GE, Chrysler and Caterpillar to create specific numbers of American jobs if NAFTA was approved, and reveal government data showing that instead, they fired U.S. workers and moved operations to Mexico.

The data also show how post-NAFTA trade and investment trends have contributed to middle-class pay cuts, which in turn contributed to growing income inequality; how since NAFTA, U.S. trade deficit growth with Mexico and Canada has been 45 percent higher than with countries not party to a U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and how U.S. manufacturing exports to Canada and Mexico have grown at less than half the pre-NAFTA rate.

NAFTA’s actual outcomes prove how damaging this type of agreement is for most people, demonstrating why NAFTA should be renegotiated or terminated. The evidence makes clear that we cannot have any more such deals that include job-offshoring incentives, requirements we import food that doesn’t meet our safety standards or new rights for firms to get taxpayer compensation before foreign tribunals for laws they don’t like.

Given NAFTA’s record of damage, it is equal parts disgusting and infuriating that now President Barack Obama has joined the corporate Pinocchios who lied about NAFTA, recycling similar claims to try to sell the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is NAFTA on steroids.

 

[JimBowie1958]

NAFTA: a Disastrous Problem that Must be Fixed Now | Economy In Crisis

When we opened our borders to Mexico, we initiated a chain reaction that continues to this day, and may well result in the downfall of our republic.

“Free trade” is uncontrolled, unrestricted access to our economy, tariff- and duty-free, with products produced in foreign countries at wage rates much lower than ours, sometimes as low as $4 per hour.

American corporations took the opportunity to move their operations south, where labor is cheap, regulations few and environmental standards nonexistent. They then sold these cheap goods back up north, reaping huge profits at the expense of American workers and the U.S. economy.

With these massive profits, the multinational corporations teamed up with the Mexican government to muscle family farmers off their land. With nowhere else to go, and with the border with their northern neighbor now wide open, these Mexican farmers came to America. This influx of workers increased the supply of labor, and as we all know, when supply goes up, price goes down.

It is clear that all of the squabbles over immigration, and all the problems it has presented, have come from NAFTA. Illegal immigration was a minor issue until George H.W. Bush’s NAFTA was signed by President Clinton; now it is a divisive issue keeping Democrats and Republicans at each other’s throats when they need to focus on more pressing issues. The chain of consequences is long and tortuous.

 

[Zander]

NAFTA

Now Ass Fuck The Americans!!

 

[MarathonMike]

I voted for H. Ross Perot back in '92 for no other reason that he was dead set against NAFTA. It's taken awhile but now we have a new leader that recognizes this disaster and will do something about it.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I voted for H. Ross Perot back in '92 for no other reason that he was dead set against NAFTA. It's taken awhile but now we have a new leader that recognizes this disaster and will do something about it.

Perot never thought he could win and was so shocked when he was ahead in the polls he withdrew for fear he might create innumerable enemies by upsetting the two party system.

Too bad he didnt have more gumption to see the job through.

 

[hauke]

so funny, the nafta agreement was made to ensure american billionaers money, of course your fucked

so why do you vote the people who fuck you ?

its democracy you voted the people in office who fuck you, then next election you vote again for them, you like being fucked !

don t complain, vote for a diffrent candidate, someone who might not fuck you 3 times in a row

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

I voted for H. Ross Perot back in '92 for no other reason that he was dead set against NAFTA. It's taken awhile but now we have a new leader that recognizes this disaster and will do something about it.

Perot never thought he could win and was so shocked when he was ahead in the polls he withdrew for fear he might create innumerable enemies by upsetting the two party system.

Too bad he didnt have more gumption to see the job through.

He was also crazy too and mired in conspiracy theories. Not everyone who runs for office is sane.

 

[hauke]

fuck me once your blame fuck me twice my blame, im so stupid i let me be fucked twice

 

[RodISHI]

It started with Bush senior along with their amnesty for illegal aliens. Yup bad deal for the working class in the US all the way around.

 

[hauke]

if i were a democrat id start a ad campaign.

google earth, then nukes starting all over

picture of Trump, im strong i did it

don t vote suicide, vote hilary

 

[Zander]

Bush 1 was a neocon with an "R" a the end of his name
Clinton was a neocon with a "D" a the end of his name
Bush 2 was a neocon with an "R" a the end of his name
Obama is a neocon with a "D" at the end of his name
hiLIARy is a neocon with a "D" a t the end of her name

Trump is not a neocon....

 

[hauke]

i think the whole usa political system is so fucked up it can t be repaired

USA citizens please make a new democratic system

your political system was invented in 1782.

that was before electricity, there was not even steam engines.

no telegrafs, no phones, no internet

please you invented the first representative democracy, and it sucks. its obsolete

hello its more then 250 years old and it does not work, replace it with something better

 

[Moonglow]

Reagan started the ball rolling on NAFTA with his summits in Canada with Mexico ..Now we see that free trade is not such a great idea ....

 

[Moonglow]

everything i say every picture or film of me is free, my copyright is a copyfree

i just try not to be filmed or photographed, my word is free

Don't you have some Asian cosplay girls to admire?

 

[Fenton Lum]

so funny, the nafta agreement was made to ensure american billionaers money, of course your fucked

so why do you vote the people who fuck you ?

its democracy you voted the people in office who fuck you, then next election you vote again for them, you like being fucked !

don t complain, vote for a diffrent candidate, someone who might not fuck you 3 times in a row

There's a lot of truth in that, but I disagree that we have anyone to vote for who will not fuck us in this political system.

We are not who they serve, "either" of these parties.

 

[hauke]

in the american mdemocracy, and in germany we got it too

yo claim in the election campain to be someone

but after you get elected, theres nothing to make you be what you claimed to be

 

[hauke]

so you can say something to your electorate and do something else after election, like the opposite, and the people who elected their representative got absolutely no power about their representative, thats so fzucking wrong

 

[JimBowie1958]

so funny, the nafta agreement was made to ensure american billionaers money, of course your fucked

so why do you vote the people who fuck you ?

its democracy you voted the people in office who fuck you, then next election you vote again for them, you like being fucked !

don t complain, vote for a diffrent candidate, someone who might not fuck you 3 times in a row

only twice in a row is that much better?

Nah, lets just kill them all and let God claim his own

 

[JimBowie1958]

He was also crazy too and mired in conspiracy theories. Not everyone who runs for office is sane.

You know that J Edgar Hoover denied the existence of the Mafia for like 30 years? He denounced any media inquiries as conspiracy theory nonsense.

The same thing that the Political Class does when people bring up their money extortion rackets too.