Now are you saying Reagan supported WTO,NAFTA and GATT? If I recall didn't he have alzhiemers big time about then?
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You're not a member of Mensa, are you?
Reagan was for freer trade and first proposed a free trade agreement with Mexico in his 1980 campaign.
This is from the Heritage Foundation. You know them don't you? They are a conservative think tank.
"Long-Standing Support for Free Trade with Mexico. Ronald Reagan first proposed a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico in his 1980 presidential campaign. Since that time, The Heritage Foundation is proud of the role it has played in articulating President Reagan's vision of free trade in Latin America and around the world. Since the mid-1980s, Heritage analysts have been stressing that a free trade agreement with Mexico not only will stimulate economic growth in the U.S., but will make Mexico a more stable and prosperous country. Heritage has published over three dozen studies stressing the benefits of free trade in North America."
Source:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/EM371.cfm
You say you remember every detail of GATT and the WTO debate from 10 years ago but you know nothing of NAFTA, its inception, continued development or the many benefits provided to its members.
You and Lou Dobbs have a lot in common. I fully expect that you'll be linking us to the AFL-CIO website should you ever decide to defend your statements with some facts.
Now are you saying Reagan supported WTO,NAFTA and GATT? If I recall didn't he have alzhiemers big time about then?
Reagan's heart and head were clearly on the side of free trade. While president, he declared in 1986: "Our trade policy rests firmly on the foundation of free and open markets. I recognize ... the inescapable conclusion that all of history has taught: The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides of human progress and peace among nations."It was the Reagan administration that launched the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations in 1986 that lowered global tariffs and created the World Trade Organization. It was his administration that won approval of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement in 1988. That agreement soon expanded to include Mexico in what became the North American Free Trade Agreement, realizing a vision that Reagan first articulated in the 1980 campaign. [emphasis added]
Source: The Heritage Foundation (again)
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The Uruguay Round reformed GATT and created the WTO, in case you don't have the time to look it up.