I'm uneasy about it. I'm in favor of freeing up investment to the degree that makes sense. If businesses are going offshore, I would rather they remained in this hemisphere.
I'm not in favor of allowing the free flow of immigrant workers, which seems to be the direction some of these agreements are heading.
I have seen that at one time the movement was to send factories to Mexico, which I wasn't happy about, but I accepted it as preferable to Mexican workers coming here. But since then I have seen the move shift to China. I have even seen American companies in Mexico uproot and move to China.
There are good reasons for this, the lack of personal security in Mexico being a big one. And the fact that trucks moving in Mexico are regularly hijacked. Mexico is one of the worse countries in the world for kidnapping of execs and their families. Who needs it.
I want to improve trade in this hemisphere but I don't want to import Mexico's security problems. Recent stories about the Zetas moving back and forth across the border worry me.
I don't suppose I've answered your question, I've been involved in projects in Mexico and points further south, and I have a love for those countries. But we don't want their problems.
So I suppose what I favor is free trade to the degree that is practical, but secure borders. The Patriots have shown that its entirely possible to secure the borders, and thats where I want to start.
Once illegal immigration has been cut off, if we find as I suspect that we have labor shortages, then enact procedures to bring in the workers we need, legally. But this free-for-all on the border has to end.
We share worry, it appears. :)
Globalism may seem inevitable but that doesn't mean it is the right thing either, no matter how it is sold or who is selling it.
I agree with you on the border issue as well.
Thanks!