Quote:How much job loss can you trace to NAFTA? The US was losing manufacturing jobs steadily since 1960. Did NAFTA accelerate that? Are there a lot of things that used to be manufactured in the US that are now being manufactured in Mexico? If so, please name them.

Of course NAFTA was also supposed to stop illegal immigration because Mexicans would be able to stay in Mexico and still have jobs. In that sense it was a dismal failure. A government program that didn't deliver what it promised? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

It started with Mexican trucks going as far as the border, the US DOT certified trucks took over. Not anymore.


American companies can build a factory there, and get raw materials from the US...tax free.


A pickup truck manufactured in Dearborn Mi. Costs the same as one manufactured in Mexico.... Except the $8 an hour Mexican worker won't be buying it. Who benefits here?


Sadly, President Kennedy's speech has turned to..what's in it for me. The word us is not used in the US much anymore.


Then we have politicians using factory closings/ joblessness as the excuse of inner city problems. Ha. Soon it'll be everyone's....well...it already is.

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