Friday, February 29, 2008

NAFTA was a mistake

If NAFTA were really a free trade agreement, it would contain just a page or two on eliminating tariffs.
Instead, NAFTA is an 824-page tome packed with rules to protect drug companies, banks and Wall Street investors. Safeguards for workers, the environment or food quality don't merit even a footnote.

Supporters of NAFTA made three major promises to the American people: NAFTA would bring hundreds of thousands of new jobs to America; NAFTA would raise wages for American workers; and NAFTA would empower Mexico to flourish and prosper, staunching the flow of undocumented workers into the USA.

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1 comment:

libhom said...

The people behind NAFTA knew exactly what they were doing. They put corporate interests ahead of living standards of people in the US, Mexico, and Canada.