According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 1.8 million workers have applied for trade adjustment assistance as a result of jobs lost because of NAFTA.
And now, the big daddy to the TAA,
"Globalization Adjustment Assistance". If this country wasn't rushing headlong into socialism before, it certainly is now. Many of us have been saying that "free trade" is the force for global socialism, and the evidence is everywhere.
The GAA socializes a huge number of American wage earners, and leaves the tax collecting on earned wages to a smaller and smaller group of unfortunate citizens, whose wages are being used to pay for globalization and to redistribute American wealth to third world nations with the slave labor pools and communist or totalitarian leaders.