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By the way, the reason nafta has been a disaster is for a number of reasons. First of all, it did nothing to stop illegal immigration. It has only gotton worse. One of the biggest selling points of nafta, was that by providing jobs in mexico, it would eventually all but end illegal immigration. Did it work?
Secondly, manufacturing jobs always pay more since people have to have products. Service jobs pay less since people can do without services and do it themselves.
Third, when you have a manufacturing based economy with high wages, there are hundreds of businesses in that surrounding area that thrive off their employees patronage. Once you close down a plant, at least 25% of the surrounding businesses shut down, and the only ones who survive are the ones who own their building and don't have to lease it or they have a product that people have to have regardless of how bad the economy is.
Fourth, it has now become obvious that they are attempting to use nafta as an excuse for a North American Union. As long as nafta is in place, corporations and/or future politicians will continue to use it for that purpose. This is treason. If they had told the people what nafta would eventually do, the people would have demanded it be voted down.
Fifth, the reason the national debt has soared, is because every time you buy a foreign product, those foreign employees who made it don't pay u.s. income taxes.
Sixth, is it wise to become dependent on Mexico for our products, and allow them to take over our freight industry, which would allow them to go on strike when they don't get what they want?
Seventh, China is also in the planning stages of building a car factory in Mexico, which is a sign of things to come from other nations as well. Was NAFTA meant to give the whole world a launching pad to undercut our economy?
Then Rep. Benjamin Cardin (Senator now I think), the top Democrat on the Ways and Means trade subcommittee said "The administration's trade policies have contributed to the loss of 3 million U.S. manufacturing jobs since 2000. We cannot let that continue."
Why would Mexico buy anything from us, if they manufacture everything already? Services you say? What kind of services? Are they going to hire us to wash their windows and mow their lawns? Sounds like to us that the only companies that are going to benefit from this deal are microsoft, walmart, and the large home improvement stores. They won't even buy computers from us since eventually they will either be made in Mexico or China if they aren't already.
One more thought. If the Mexican government, and a handful of large corporations want to keep NAFTA, what does that tell you? It tells me that we should do exactly the opposite.
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