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NAFTA May Have Saved Many Autoworkers’ Jobs
New York Times ^ | March 29, 2016 | Eduardo Porter

Posted on 03/29/2016 4:16:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

When Donald Trump threatened to “break” the North American Free Trade Agreement, auto industry workers offered up some of the loudest cheers.

Mr. Trump easily won the Republican primary in Michigan this month. The state, home base for the American auto industry, also delivered an upset victory to Bernie Sanders, the Democratic anti-NAFTA standard-bearer.

But the autoworkers’ animosity is aiming at the wrong target. There are still more than 800,000 jobs in the American auto sector. And there is a good case to be made that without NAFTA, there might not be much left of Detroit at all.

“Without the ability to move lower wage jobs to Mexico, we would have lost the whole industry,” said Gordon Hanson of the University of California, San Diego, who has been studying the impact of NAFTA on industries and workers since its inception more than two decades ago. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: autoworkers; bailouts; detroit; governmentmotors; liberalagenda; marxism; nafta; outsourcing; sanders; trade; trump; trumpisnotreagan; trumpows; trumpronpaul; uaw
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To: HLPhat

OK.


81 posted on 04/01/2016 9:11:24 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: HLPhat

I attract the loonies to post to me it seems.


82 posted on 04/01/2016 9:12:41 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

Whats Bat/Chickenman’s plan for dealing with the systemic corruption such as that which resulted in...

http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Fraud+Trillion+derivatives

and why did his Mortgage business fail?

http://www.google.com/#q=Trump+Mortgage+company


83 posted on 04/01/2016 9:26:48 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Trumpinator

>>What part of the sliding scale did you not get

So Batman is going to micromanage the global economy with a a “sliding scale” (that’s not very Reaganesque BTW) but can’t articulate a plan for how to prevent a recurrence of the economic FRAUD that was inflicted upon the American people by the predators in the Mortgage a$$paper bidness?

Uhuh. Ok.


84 posted on 04/02/2016 7:58:13 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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