It doesn’t matter what food cost when you don’t have a job. My problem is with NAFTA and other trade deals that take jobs from Americans. This is going to be a big issue in the coming election, and John McCain is on the wrong side.
The price of food always matters. Do you miss the days when we had half our workforce employed in agriculture? Were the good old days when the average American worked 14 hours a day tilling a field just to scrape by and then had to rely on his large family to provide for his retirement? Yeah, those were good times.
My problem is with NAFTA and other trade deals that take jobs from Americans.
We've absorbed millions of illegals since NAFTA and still have an unemployment rate less than 5%. We're the most competitive economy in the world and serve as the locomotive for the world economy. Fourteen years after NAFTA and we're still the envy of the world. You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone who knows anything about economics that NAFTA has been bad for our economy.
This is going to be a big issue in the coming election, and John McCain is on the wrong side
Sure, that's why we had Pat Buchanan and Dick Gephardt as presidents. Even Obama is smart enough to give Canada the nudge and wink. Economic populism may work well in certain states for the dem's target market but it doesn't amount to much once the election is over. No one wants to have to explain the higher prices, fewer choices, increased unemployment and economic malaise that protectionism brings.