[maui_hawaii]

"It" first raised "it's" ugly head with NAFTA - championed by none other than George Herbert Walker Bush.

If you are talking about NAFTA, it was first proposed in 1979 by Ronald Reagan.

Every President since embraced it, and evolved what they mean by it and how that applies to the rest of the world.

In recent years we have been getting away from the original plan.

[jpsb]

years ago, I wrote in defense NAFTA. Not that I like NAFTA but NAFTA just had to happen. Here is why, the EU had an untapped pool of cheap labor in the former Soviet states. The pacific rim (japan) had a pool of cheap labor in Asia. If North American manurfactoring was going to compete then North America would have to tap into it's cheap labor pool in Mexico. Never in my wildests dreams think that North American manurfactoring would go to the Chicoms! Or that tech jobs would go to India. I still can't believe it.