[canuck_conservative]

Explain to me the replacement jobs that are being created when Ford, Carrier, or any of those other big companies move their factories to Mexico

I guess I missed that part

[central_va]

Displaced workers either become drug dealers, pimps or prostitutes. Or they go to medical school. No middle ground.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Explain to me the replacement jobs that are being created when Ford, Carrier, or any of those other big companies move their factories to Mexico"

Explain to me how not having NAFTA would stop those companies from moving their jobs to Mexico? What was in place before NAFTA that discouraged any company from moving those jobs to Mexico? Most economist surmise that if those jobs had not gone to Mexico, they would have been relocated to China without NAFTA. In fact we have lost far more manufacturing jobs to China, not Mexico.

"U.S. employment increased over the period of 1993-2007 from 110.8 million people to 137.6 million people.[9] Specifically within NAFTA's first five years of existence, 709,988 jobs (140,000 annually), were created domestically.[10] The mid to late nineties was a period of strong economic growth in the United States. When a country is experiencing economic growth (i.e. GDP is increasing), there is usually also an increase in employment.[11] Thus, because trade liberalization can sometimes contribute to increases in GDP, it can help to bring the rate of unemployment down in a country. The U.S. experienced a 48% increase in real GDP from 1993-2005."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA%27s_effect_on_United_States_employment