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To: TBP
"If they exhibit an anti-American bent"

It doesn't work like that.

On one side are the protections for the investors/business and on the other side are the regulatory protections such as for labor, environment, or social welfare.

So if you are an American, it depends on whether you are a US investor in the company in Mexico or if you are an American worker who lost your job to NAFTA.

It also depends on your job. If you are a sewing machine operator, its bad news because the FTA opened the US market(no tariffs). But if you work on a farm growing corn its good news because the FTA opened the market to US corn(no tariffs).

As a generality, you say that a capital market economy will produce more winners and fewer losers than say a socialist economy.

So, all modern day socialists support a capital market economy, but because even capitalism creates winners and losers, the socialists will seek political solutions to the inequities. If a worker loses his job to an FTA, then he should be entitled to govt paid retraining and if he can't find a job that pays as well as the job he lost, then he should be entitled to wage insurance paid for by the govt.

20 posted on 05/06/2015 4:43:49 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

I don’t really care how “it works.” I care about protecting our sovereignty and national interest. Period.


21 posted on 05/06/2015 7:44:24 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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