The job holders and their high wages and benefits and their politics of tax and regulation made them non competitive. The companies employing them would have ceased operations anyway because the cost of production was too high.
BS... You impose intelligent tariffs
NAFTA and GATT killed our textile industries and lot other industries
You can call them lousy jobs but millions of Americans depended on them
You destroyed America's work ethic
People like to work and you killed their jobs by sending them abroad
Now that you all killed our real industries we are left with scum of the earth derivatives traders who have the nerve to call themselves an industry. The so called "financial industry"
And the biggest lie of NAFTA was that it would provide Mexico enough jobs to stop illegal immigration
Connect the dots
The same globalists that brought you NAFTA love illegal immigration and brought us Wall St going berserk with derivatives and making billions doing so. They took home the profits while you, Mr Bert, get to bail them out (via taxes) because they are "too big to fail"
You have been used and you still don't get it and never will
NAFTA is good for America because it eliminates unnecessary stumbling blocks to trade between the USA and Canada and Mexico.
It is not 1955. There is a big competitive world out there ans if America is to survive, America must engage and be competitive.
Total bull...
You NAFTA guys won. I was always against it
You all sure made American real competitive
In house flipping and writing derivatives
An honest nation does not run up 700 billion dollar trade deficits
Did you hear Hilary sucking up to China today to keep buying US Treasuries?
That's where your BS "free trade" treaties have taken us too
What a great post! You know, there are a good number of us here on FR who remember very clearly the streams of workers leaving the factories and mills when the shifts changed; some of us remember leaving ourselves.
In my town, the mills are all closed and the shoe industry is dead. We still have shoes and sheets...from China and Vietnam and Indonesia and Malaysia. The names on the products are the ones we grew up with and the owners of those companies are richer than ever...and the children and grandchildren of their former workers are flipping burgers or collecting welfare to support their 3 illegitimate kids.