[AmericaUnited]

We've keep hearing this same garbage over and over again.

NAFTA = "Mexicans will grow economically and buy lots of products from the US." - NOT! A large number of US jobs were lost. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED.

China - "Trade with China will open up a market of 1 billion Chinese consumers for the US." NOT!

And the latest version of this lie:

“As long as there are 300 million Indian who earn less than $1 a day, there is not much hope of them buying US products.”

[AmericaUnited]

Outsourcing is killing off one of the few remaining high paid sectors of the American workforce, i.e. computer programmers.

[sarcasm]

Congress is for sale.

[waterstraat]

NAFTA = "Mexicans will grow economically and buy lots of products from the US." - NOT! A large number of US jobs were lost. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED. China - "Trade with China will open up a market of 1 billion Chinese consumers for the US." NOT!

YOu are right! We were promised a trade surplus, we were promised that we would be selling hundreds of billions of american products to the chinese and mexicans. Hasnt happened.

[FITZ]

NAFTA = "Mexicans will grow economically and buy lots of products from the US." - NOT! A large number of US jobs were lost. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED.

That's the sad thing ---NAFTA didn't help either country ---at least not the majority but it did help a few I'm sure ---politicians who could line their pockets. When you look at all the millions of Mexicans coming over the border who have lost their jobs and homes in Mexico you have to wonder what happened ---ten years ago they were working in Mexico and now all that's gone for them. People don't die trying to leave a country they have any hope in.

[Risa]

>>We've keep hearing this same garbage over and over again.<<

Haha! You make a very good point. It's called the economist's "long run" syndrome, i.e. the fruits of their knowledge amount to no more than a perpetual wait for something better to come.

As for NAFTA, the development promised by free-trade advocates never materialized for Mexico or the United States. Only the multinational businesses and the very top wealthy sectors of Mexico have profit. The middle-class and poor have been devastated and pushed deeper into misery by free trade liberalisation.


As for China, I suspect Bill CLinton was bought. And we got nothing out of the deal--except, perhaps the future force of an enemy whose wealth we created at the diminishment of our own.