Posted on 01/27/2017 10:30:13 AM PST by VitacoreVision
Pretty much everything our government does is misnamed in true Orwellian fashion.
Which is exactly what those of us who support free trade have always said about NAFTA. Free trade does not require an agreement. It is, by definition, unilateral.
H. Ross Perot named it correctly; “A giant sucking sound.”
When this POS treaty was being floated as an idea the fact that it would result in our factories being relocated to Mexico and our workers being sacrificed on the alter of globalism was never mentioned. Funny that.
That’s what Ross Perot was saying.
“The defeat of NAFTA would be the first step in precisely the wrong direction–an American looking inward rather than reason,” wails the New Republic.
False, Naiveté’s defeat would be a declaration of independence by a new generation of Americans, a shot heard ’round the world that the Old Republic is back, that we Americans are, once again, going to start looking out for America First.
If we don’t who will?
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By Patrick J. Buchanan November 1993
It’s Not About Free Trade — It’s About Our Way of Life…
“It may not be too great a flight of rhetoric to say that, at this crossroads of post-Cold War history, Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot represent the cause of evil.”
Thus did the New Republic close an editorial begun on its cover calling NAFTA “the most critical vote in years
And the U.S. economy proceed to add jobs for more than a decade. So if you need to be wrong, make it spectacular.
Maybe because it's proponents mistakenly believed that protectionists know how free(r) markets operate?
The North American Free Trade Agreement: Ronald Reagan's Vision Realized
'...The NAFTA also will offer Americans cheaper goods, and increase U.S. exports by making them more affordable for the rest of the world. Moreover, it will create an estimated 200,000 new jobs for Americans, reduce illegal immigration from Mexico, help tackle drug trafficking, strengthen Mexican democracy and human rights, and serve as a model for the rest of the world.'
Yep! RP was prescient...
Maybe Heritage was thinking about all of those high-paying jobs we would send to Mexico? Who would have guess that Ross Perot and Heritage actually were on the same page?
“... but there are an additional 348 pages of annexes...”
I think these annexes are what dispossessed the poorest farmers from their lands to enrich the oligarchs, prompting the massive illegal invasion of America from Mexico.
I remember Rush Limbaugh eulogizing NAFTA, and denouncing people like me who opposed it.
I have never trusted that Neocon Bushite since then.
How do you feel about Ronald Reagan, then? NAFTA was his idea.
Free Republic remembers:
Rush Limbaugh TV Show 1993-pro NAFTA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3425200/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycgYMFZd_Cw
Long-Standing Support for Free Trade with Mexico. Ronald Reagan first proposed a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico in his 1980 presidential campaign. Since that time, The Heritage Foundation is proud of the role it has played in articulating President Reagan's vision of free trade in Latin America and around the world.http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1993/11/em371-the-north-american-free-trade-agreement
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Sure did - Rush mocked Perot. Very few heard the 'sucking sound' of NAFTA like Perot and Buchanan both of whom were smeared. [remind you of anyone today who recently ran for office and also heard the sucking sound!!]
Saying it is one thing. Proving it is another. The only way I could see that happening is if someone compared the texts of the original FTA with Canada, and NAFTA itself.
If any significant differences are found, then one could argue that Reagan might not have approved of the latter. If none are found, then one can infer that Reagan approved.
I have yet to see anybody establish the former.
Yup. It only took just over a decade and a large recession to “prove” Perot correct. Or so his supporters believe.
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