And, since these (NAFTA & GATT) are merely acronyms for bad policy, they have no hands. It is the hands of the Big-Business, Multinational Corporation-owned American Senators, Representatives and Presidents (plural) who facilitated this selling out of our nation's riches and future.
They are the ones whose hands are smeared with this blood... or are they?
After all, we are the imbeciles who vote them into office, who sign their paychecks, and then sit idle as they vote themselves pay raises, and $100,000.00+ per-year retirement benefits packages.
I guess, looked at fully, it is we, the American sheeple, whose blood is on our own hands. Take pride. We've done a great job with the sacred trust left to us by the Founders.
We blame guys like Perot and Buchanan for being right about this crap, and then we vote for the Dem-Rep Duopoly.
Excuse me now, I have to go puke.
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It does, but Pat has no answers that would make a difference, either.
The only thing that will get America back in the manfacturing game is to get big government off the backs of producing people. Liberals have a nazi-like interest in controlling everything producers do from who they can and can't hire to what they can produce to what they must pay they workers.
This is called "corporatism," and it is a major tenet of National Socialism, or fascism.