Tell you what, come back and argue your point when CAFTA and the FTAA have thoroughly disrupted "most" peoples way of life here in America and America gives up it's sovereignty for the FTAA's Constitution just like what the EU is trying to do.
"Our inner cities (and Indian reservations) didn't experience this prosperity..." Our inner cities have experienced prosperity???
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Note the word 'didn't'. The governments of these countries are acting in a similar fashion.
And the same thing was said about NAFTA. The sky was falling folks were dead wrong.