Posted on 07/15/2014 9:24:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Reagan was sent a message 2 months into his presidency.
No trouble defending Ronald Reagan on my part, whatsoever.
Eventually. The destruction of the United States must happen first. Eventually an Agenda 21 Hunger Games style of an existence.
This was a good line from the article:
“The oversupply of foreigners willing to work for lower wages has made it impossible for average American wages to increase in more than a decade, ....”
I work in an industry where so many jobs have been moved overseas. I go into all types of manufacturing plants throughout North America. There are so many things we used to manufacture here that are now gone. These jobs are gone.
Have wages kept pace with inflation? No.
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
There are so many other variables but it certainly hasn’t kept pace.
Do you have a particular time-frame in mind, or did you post me that calculator for no reason?
Correct, but not long before Reagan,
By the mid 70s the US's competitive advantages in multilateral trade(WTO) had begun to wane so it was decided to shift to bilateral/regional agreements. If Ford had won his election, it probably would have begun with him.
First was with Israel, then the Caribbean Basin Initiative which was very much like the Maquilladora agreement with Mexico that would be replaced under GW Bush by CAFTA. NAFTA started as a bilateral with Canada, then morphed into a trilateral
Our public schools are creating more than enough low-skilled, low-income workers.
Redistribution of wealth goes back a lot of years and both parties can take credit for it.
That is true, and not NAFTA’s fault, either.
Incorrect. It actually began with Guv Bill Clements. Because NAFTA was coming he put the ball in motion giving the task to the transportation think tank at UT to come up with a plan. The report was published while GW Bush was Guv but was set aside because he would be running for prez.
Before the TTC project could go forward Texas first had to have a state referendum ending "pay-as-you-go" which was in the constitution. That would be very controversial so they decided to let the next Guv handle it.
“No trouble defending Ronald Reagan on my part, whatsoever.”
Not a surprise. The 1986 Amnesty was a seriously flawed law that failed in its goal and the treason lobby uses it to demand more of the same.
Patriots find fault with Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty mistake, but of course that wouldn’t include you.
Seriously, do you ever tire of seeing your strawmen burnt down?
Uh, ok. Thanks I guess.
Inflation accounts for the increase in wages.
Whoo boy . . . perhaps someone will chance along and explain what the term “real wage” means.
“Leading exactly to Schlafly’s fallacy: the “oversupply of foreigners willing to work for lower wages” is a result of illegal immigration, not NAFTA”
Schlafly is right of course, and rudeboy is predictably more concerned with trying to defend a flawed trade bill rather than the border.
NAFTA is directly connected to the huge increase in illegal immigration that followed its passage. One of the earliest effects of NAFTA was the opening of Mexican markets to cheaper American wheat and corn.
This put thousands of small Mexican farms out of business and the newly jobless Mexicans headed north across the US border. INS surveyed the illegals they picked up and the cause of the post-NAFTA surge was well studied.
Since none of the enforcement provisions of the 1986 Amnesty beloved by rudeboy were implemented the flood of NAFTA illegals was free to enter the US. And now the treason lobby wants even more.
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