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Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem
Your entire post here is dependent on the notion that "free" trade = "fair" trade...or even "improved" trade.
Sorry, but I happen to like that our nation can enjoy a decent way of life, I happen to not want laborers to make pennies on the hour with no benefits.
Across numerous manufacturing sectors - Americans lost 100,000's of well paid jobs with solid benefits.
You leave out a HUGE factor in who "wins" with NAFTA - who works the hardest is far out-weighed by who works the cheapest.
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While the US enjoyed its greatest reign of prosperity in post ww2 by dominating world trade when the rest of the developed and developing world was in shambles, low labor costs contributing to efficient manufacturing with supporting infrastructure are now the determining factor of capital attraction. To deny that fact is denying global redistribution of labor functions. The emotional stance of US laborers enjoying wages and benefits that facilitate a high standard of living is commendable as an isolationist viewpoint, but unrealistic in the current circumstance of global trade.