That being said, I'm fairly positive that NAFTA (that Ronald Reagan initiated and George H.W. Bush signed) has environmental provisions also . . . but no one will bother to tell us what they are, or the ones they want to talk about. Probably because the rest of us (if we so choose--it just won't be as fun as it was last night) could then actually determine the provisions' history.
What's illustrative about this thread is the lengths to which our budding FR Bolsheviks will go to make certain the federal government sticks its nose in our business: Reagan was a Hero of the Fatherland because he slapped tariffs on motorcycles--but when he reduced tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products he gets airbrushed out of the picture.
Even the airbrushing isn't that good. "Reagan wouldn't have approved of NAAEC, so he hypothetically (let's stay focused) would've rescinded his approval of NAFTA." C'mon, Mojave, step it up a few notches.
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*Of course, now that I have done the legwork, the frantic Google searching will begin anew.
NAAEC was one of the supplemental agreements to NAFTA that preceded Congressional approval of NAFTA. Nice foot shot.
I'm fairly positive that NAFTA (that Ronald Reagan initiated
Bzzzzt. Wrong.
Ronald Reagan proposed a North American common market in 1981. He never created the NAFTA agreement. He never signed the NAFTA agreement. He never negotiated the NAFTA agreement.
President Bush first notified Congress of his intention to negotiate with Mexico for the creation of a NAFTA agreement in 1990, after President Ronald Reagan left office. The first diplomatic negotiations to create NAFTA didn't even begin until 1991. The bill implementing NAFTA wasn't passed by Congress until it was modified by multiple supplemental agreements. NAFTA, praised by your fellow leftists as "the greenest trade agreement ever" was signed into law by Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and became effective January 1, 1994.
Try again.