Thanks, I didn't realize using html messed it up so much.
Since the subjects of Reagan and NAFTA are timely I spent time researching it. Not good.
I found that more critical analysts have been proved correct. NAFTA benefits large corporations at the expense of America as a whole. GATT supplemented NAFTA and now the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas will tie us to 30-some odd more countries.
Super-NAFTA, er, FTAA seems to allow corporations to sue governments for perceived lost profits. Do we want to institutionalize the Savings & Loan Bailout? Can you afford money from your taxes going to assuage greedy bastards because their profit margins slipped?
FTAA will also remove or critically hamper national standards for professionals. That means what passes for a doctor in Paraguay may be awaiting your next medical problem. Just put the lime in the coconut...
If you think I'm over the top just recall how we were told NAFTA would reduce illegal immigration to a trickle and practically eliminate drug smuggling. Exactly the opposite has occurred. How many times should we "buy the Brooklyn Bridge"?
What Presidents and Representatives take too lightly is the fact that every treaty enacted is a de facto extension of our Constitution. Legal scholars maintain that when a treaty has a conflict with the Constitution the treaty supersedes it.
Fair Trade helped see this nation to its status as a world power. Free Trade is reducing the populace to pauperhood while eroding our sovereignty just so the fat can get fatter.