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Re: NAFTA: Terrorism against the People
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Originally Posted by tamperpr00f
Ok thanks for answering but...
1. You are assuming that when companies employ "cheap" labor they will pass the savings on to the customer by reducing the price of their product. Has this been shown to be true.
2. Also what good does cheaper goods do U.S. citizens if they are unemployed, or underemployed? Which is what happens when companies hire "cheap" labor from other nations.
Please bear with me I am not trying to argue I honestly am uninformed on both sides of the arguement. If there is merit to NAFTA and other "free trade" ideas I would like to know.
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Well many consumer goods are in fact cheaper when adjusted for inflation than they where before NAFTA. You can in fact go to Wal-Mart and buy things for a fraction of what they would have cost 20 years ago.
And right now unemployment is still at 4.something percent which is considered virtual full unemployment. People notice the job losses because they happen in specific sectors while the gains to GDP and lower costs are spread out across the whole economy which makes them less noticeable to each individual. I am all for using a portion of the gains to GDP to pay for educational or retraining programs.
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