Posted on 10/31/2017 6:01:46 PM PDT by Sign Petition to Arrest Comey
WASHINGTONTexas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz warned Tuesday that the United States would face massive economic costs if President Donald Trump killed the North American Free Trade Agreement but that Trump might go ahead and make that decision.
Cruz said NAFTA has created millions of jobs across the United States, and he said Texans believe in international trade. He expressed concern that Trump, whom he generally supports, would seek to use the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation to reduce trade and erect protectionist barriers rather than to expand trade.
Reducing access to the Canadian and Mexican markets, Cruz said, would do profound damage to the American economy and to Texas in particular.
Which direction will the administration go? I will tell you candidly: I dont know, Cruz said at the pro-NAFTA U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. His comments highlight the uncertainty surrounding Donald Trumps intentions.
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“I wonder what Amanda Carpenter thinks.”
That would explain why the Left was pushing so hard for Cruz.
Lyn Ted, the Never Trumper strikes again. Bet there are propagandists here on FR that will defend his latest treason and argue the definition of is. Sickening.
Ted should stick to Constitutional Law.
Trump majored in Business, has built an economic empire and understands market economy 100% more than Ted who has never created a single job in his life.
I’ll trust Trump on this.
Anyone want to see a behind the scene genuine Cruz political campaign commercial?
This is the real deal! It’ll make ya recoil!
For those who have not seen it, watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfKwc5lpZZ0
Watch the whole thing...Not very long.
Your Lying Leftist approach of using labels instead of actual rationale amount to nothing . Have fun in your fantasyland with your leftist buddies.
He’s 100% right on this with regard to Canada, and probably mostly right when it comes to Mexico. One of the biggest impacts of NAFTA is that it prohibited both of those countries from nationalizing their energy industries. It’s no coincidence that both Mexico and Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest foreign suppliers of U.S. oil by the late 1990s.
Was the U.S. better off in 1994 with $50 billion of imports and $50 billion of exports, or in 2015 with $296.4 billion of imports and $235.7 billion of exports?
His wife is a globalist cfr stooge bought and paid for by Goldman-Sachs.
We’ll have to replace him in his primary with no help from Bannon or Trump. We remember the RNC convention, and we remember Ted’s betrayal.
You are very correct free trade does create wealth but dont go claiming that arozzi nd here . The Bolsheviks wish to control where I as a small business owner where I can buy my material
I’m not crazy about Cruz, but I’m also not crazy about economically dampening protective tariffs.
Around here
I can’t believe I ever supported this POS. cruz has gone full swamp-maggot.
I could live with that, too.
Dang man, you got that right.
LOL
Who remembers, And that giant sucking sound youll hear are all the jobs leaving the United States.
Perot was right about the giant sucking sound, but IIRC he and his family owned an industrial airport that was all set up to benefit from NAFTA trade. So there are always some people who do directly benefit from things like NAFTA because they are in the right business and in part Ted Cruz in speaking for them.
Get real...Anyone supporting NAFTA is a GD globalist.
NAFTA has been bad for American workers. But great for illegals
and globalist. Lyin Ted is lying again.
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