Reading articles about Hillary Clinton attacking NAFTA can lead you to believe The Onion has taken over America's news bureaus. Clinton spent the last 10 years repeatedly praising the trade deal in speeches, most recently calling the job-killing accord "good for New York and America." Yet, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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This week on C-SPAN Senator Byron Dorgan, (D) S.D., was advocating allowing the Consumer Protection Agency to ban imports from those companies which have repeatedly sent us dangerous products.
We’ve heard how only 1% of foreign goods are inspected, but until now I had no idea that there is no one empowered to stop this stuff from coming in.
He mentioned one Matel supplier in China caused three product recalls in five weeks
Hope? You sound like that vacuous idiot running for president. A few facts are much more to the point than all the hopes of Osama, Obama, and Bonnie and Clod.
NAFTA passed in 1993, sponsored by Republicans and endorsed by President Clinton and some Democrats in Congress, and, more particularly, by Clinton
“...this whole conversation about NAFTA is absurd, as well as being dishonest”
Yes, as is yours.
Go out into the real world of people who have been adversely affected by the economic changes of the past 14 years. Perhaps the greatest problem today is the willingness to accept as fact the numbers which are fed to us each day.
Your data and arguments you presented above are irrelevant and unrealistic.
The switch from agricultural to industrial took place over generations
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