To: LowCountryJoe
"..in spite of the fact that we added some 300,000 auto jobs in this country in the years after NAFTA passed."
If this in in fact true, I suspect its the result of foreign manufacturers (e.g. German and Japanese) opening factories here.
The astute geographer will note that neither of those 2 countries are in North America, and were therefore unaffected by NAFTA.
To: Pessimist
The astute sentence reader would have stopped after the first sentence of his or her reply and conceded that if the added jobs came as a result of foreign manufacturers locating here, the vast majority of those jobs created here are being filled by Americans who live here...making the quoted sentence very accurate!
23 posted on
02/02/2006 8:59:03 AM PST by
LowCountryJoe
(The Far Right and the Far Left both disdain markets. If the Left ever finds God, the GOP is toast.)
To: Pessimist
The astute geographer will note that neither of those 2 countries are in North America, and were therefore unaffected by NAFTA. If the cars are built in the US then they qualify under the rules of origination and fall under NAFTA even if the owner is in Europe or Japan.
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