Bill calls for NAFTA pullout

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 31, 2007

[Man50D]

WASHINGTON – Three Republican members of the House of Representatives have co-sponsored a resolution calling on President Bush to provide notice of withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Reps. Virgil Goode of Virginia, Walter Jones of North Carolina and Gene Taylor of Mississippi introduced the bill, which has been referred to the House Subcommittee of Trade.

The trio objects to NAFTA because of the rising U.S. trade deficits with Canada and Mexico, the loss of American jobs, the safety threat posed by foreign truckers on U.S. highways and the security risks it has meant in increased crime and drugs and the potential for terrorist activity.

According to the Department of Labor, 1.8 million U.S. workers have applied for trade adjustment assistance as a result of jobs lost through NAFTA's implementation.

[Malesherbes]

NAFTA has been a disaster. Designed by the elder Bush and pushed through Congress by Clintoon, it has done none of the things it was promised to do. Instead of "saving" the Mexican economy as promised, it has wrecked it and contributed to the mass migration of millions of impoverished campesinos into the United States. We have in effect imported Mexico's poverty into our own cities and towns.

[AZRepublican]

I fully support withdrawing from NAFTA...who ever dreamed up that damn theory of "globalization" should be shot.

[hershey]

Mexico has ethnically cleansed itself of the native Indian poor, the peasant class, various criminals, drug dealers. One quarter of the population is already here, and a poll taken in Mexico some months back indicated that the middle class is packing for the trip north. Given their druthers, probably all of the southern hemisphere's poor would be here. Interestingly, I've heard Indian immigrants...(from India), sneer and say Americans work too hard. But that's another story.

[sgtbono2002]

Finally a bill that needs backing. Of course it wont be.

[upchuck]

This plan deserves backing. it appears to be a left-handed swipe at the SPP and the North American Community foolishness.

If we sit back and do nothing our country's sovereignty will go down the tubes.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[raybbr]

ping

[wolfcreek]

"globalization"

Nothing more than Corporate Socialism. A 'take from the rich and give to the poor' scheme that only hurts the middle class and the semi-well-to-do.

[Mr. Bird]

I'd be curious to see some posts illustrating the benefits of NAFTA withdrawal. I have no opinion on whether NAFTA is a disaster or not; my life has improved significantly since its inception, but that's hardly a valid defense of it.

What would happen, specifically here in the U.S., if NAFTA were no more?

[Hydroshock]

Good, I support this with a whole heart.

[Hydroshock]

ping

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“This plan deserves backing. it appears to be a left-handed swipe at the SPP and the North American Community foolishness. “

Exactly!!!

“If we sit back and do nothing our country's sovereignty will go down the tubes.”

You are right again. Thank you.

[showme_the_Glory]

Teamsters and the American Trucking Association ought to be all over this.

[BfloGuy]

NAFTA has absolutely nothing to do with illegal immigration -- zip, zero, nada.

Free trade and a failure to police our borders are two separate issues.

[B4Ranch]

If you keep both eyelids squeezed together, I promise that you will never see the truth.

Keep this SECRET!

The idea behind NAFTA was to get US manufacturers into MEXICO. That was supposed to provide them with lots of jobs. Don't tell anyone but had the Plan worked as advertised they wouldn't have needed to come here to find jobs.

Instead, China jumped in with labor costs below Mexico and blew the best laid UN plans all to Smithereens.

[chasio649]

NAFTA has absolutely nothing to do with illegal immigration

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NAFTA was touted to curb illegal immigration...that's the relationship most on FR draw...that's fair criticism.

[calex59]

My life went totally to hell after Nafta, company shut down, threw 450 people out of work, jobs that paid a minimum of $10.50 per hour back in 1997, with the top pay spot at $17.50. Most of the people ended up working in "service" jobs making about 7 bucks an hour. Meanwhile people in some other country are doing the jobs "americans won't do", at least not for the slave wages that they pay in other countries.

You know what service jobs are, they are the millions of jobs that have been "created" since Nafta, the ones that pay about half of what manufacturing jobs paid.

On top of that, everyone of the 450 people who had been working and contributing to the economy and tax base was eligible for government retraining under the Nafta laws, this meant that most of them learned how to flip burgers and ask "do you want fries with that?" . What a waste of taxpayers money.

[hedgetrimmer]

NAFTA has absolutely nothing to do with illegal immigration -- zip, zero, nada.

Why that isn't true at all.

Illegal immigration is a known result of "free trade" agreements. The WTO, UN and World Bank call it 'migration' and with all the "free trade" agreements being signed today they predict cataclysmic shifts in global populations as third worlders pick up an move to first world countries to take advantage of "free trade". The WTO even has a name for it Mode 4 or "free movement of persons".

NAFTA started the ball rolling by displacing millions of Mexican farmers and farmworkers. The border patrol under Doris Meissner was told to turn a blind eye to these criminal entrants, because "free trade" protects "migrants" who send money back to their home countries because its a big part of the global economy and helps to cement globalization that has been forced on nations.

The illegal entrants, in turn came to the US illegally to make money to send home. Mexico's economy benefits by at least $40 billion in remittances alone.

The next act to seal illegal immigration as a function of "free trade", was the negotiations by Mexico and other South American countries to make the cost of sending this money out of our country cheaper. So the big, formerly US banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank, started negotiating into the trade negotiations the right to access the Mexican market. ("free trade" is run by 'working groups' --like the SPP- of transnational corporations wanting to take a bite out of every economy on the planet without having to deal with 'barriers to trade' like governments and citizens--) They saw $40 billion they wanted to get a cut from, so even though they were asked not to by the department of homeland security, they started accepting the phony matricular consular id cards so illegals could set up bank accounts here and even get loans to purchase real estate.

This is the so called 'economic integration' by the "free traders"

It is also the 'cultural integration' that "free traders" negotiate, but mainly integration Mexican culture into America, as opposed to vice versa. You see the integration of this culture by the forcing of states, counties, towns and cities to offer bilingual everything to non citizens, voting,hospital care, schools, police it goes on and on. The 'working groups' empowered under NAFTA negotiated this long ago. "free traders" call it giving migrants the same rights as 'nationals' (read citizens). Thats why illegals have so much political clout here, they must not be discriminated against for being here illegally and this is the crux of the disastrous amnesty proposal by our globalist politicians in Washington.

[norton]

"NAFTA has absolutely nothing to do with illegal immigration -- zip, zero, nada."

I'd probably agree if you limited your statement to free trade - that really is another subject.

But NAFTA and illegal immigration are two sides of the same coin - the both provide a means to legitimize the presence of mexican jetsam on American soil and shared profits for investors.

They both come from an elitist concept of US/mexican shared destiny and they both intend to blur the borders to a degree that is already giving mexico veto power over US policy. The influx of illegals is already building to a majority voice in large segments of domestic politics and that voice follows precisely the social and economic goals of the two elites.

(Canada is only in the formula to add bulk, I doubt that NAFTA has much impact on them at all but am open to correction on that matter.)