[clearlight]

"Horsecrap, Brady. As if we make anything that your new "customers" can afford."

Exactly. NAFTA was a badly negotiated deal that was sold as a job creator for our country. All it did was send the trade deficit with Mexico through the roof while U.S. companies bolted south for cheap labor. Maybe, just maybe, one day the American people will tire of being sold out by congress.

[Southack]

"NAFTA was a badly negotiated deal that was sold as a job creator for our country." - clearlight

Support your argument. Show me facts.

Are there fewer American jobs today than back when NAFTA was first ratified in 1993?

Are American salaries lower today than in 1993?

Now, with those answers in hand, does NAFTA look better or worse than back before you knew that data?

[Mad Dawgg]

"Exactly. NAFTA was a badly negotiated deal that was sold as a job creator for our country."

NAFTA started in 1994:

BLS 1993 Average Unemployment rate 6.9% (Before NAFTA)

BLS 2004 Average Unemployment rate 5.5% (after NAFTA)

Today we are at 5% as of last months figures. Seems that there are MORE jobs after NAFTA... Would you not agree?