NAFTA is not free trade but just loss of US sovereignty.
You know that giant sucking sound it is US jobs going aways and illegal immigrants coming in.
The giant sucking sound might be the vacuum created by the air escaping from your argument. Funny how the protectionist crowd simultaneously complains about immigration and outsourcing. When capital flows out of the country - potentially making other countries better off, enticing their citizens to stay and not come here, benefits the US. owner of the capital, and might just go to producing goods the Americans can buy at a better value - protectionists bitch about this too! So, does the protectionist really think that they can have it both ways when many times they're not even the owners of the capital?
Next I suppose that someone will tell me that the race to the top is the Buchananite "race to the bottom".