so...
US corporations moved to Mexico resulting in a net LOSS of mexican jobs?
right.
No, it was our heavily government subsidized corn that was grown here and put their farmers out of business because they could not compete with our artificially low prices.
It was not so much NAFTA as the combination of NAFTA which opened their markets and unfair competition from our corporate farm welfare industry.
Now all those poor farmers that were put out of business are here working on those corporate farms earning wages that are subsidized massively by American taxpayers. The artificially cheap labor is a second subsidy from the taxpayers because we have to pick up things like health care and education for the low paid farm workers who do not earn enough where they can pay enough taxes to cover these costs to society.
Now, with CAFTA, in combination with our corporate welfare agriculture industry further boosted by cheap labor subsidies the cycle is about to be repeated once again to the detriment of American taxpayers.
Yes. Multinational economies of scale displaced thousands of smaller, Mexican entrepreneurs.
With the recent SCOTUS ruling, permitting government puppets to use eminent domain to transfer property to their cronies, CAFTA will be much worse.
Let me see if I understand this; we move our factories to Mexico and now there are fewer jobs. Works for me.