Newsweek: Democrats Trade Trouble

[TMK9973]

Read this article and was really thinking about it.
Despite that fact that the common complaint is that
Outsourcing and globerzation is bad, imigration is bad, and NAFTA is a failure -
The truth is just the oppoisate.

Since NAFTA, increased outsource and globerzation, and increased immagration - The US is better off for it. Wages are going up, we have a increase in white collar workers, cheaper goods, and full employement.

Free trade is where Clinton broke from the rest of the democratic party and was a great thing. Democrats need a person like Bill to come back and be willing to break with the party on some things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628576/site/newsweek/

[SnyderShrugged]

Read this article and was really thinking about it.
Despite that fact that the common complaint is that
Outsourcing and globerzation is bad, imigration is bad, and NAFTA is a failure -
The truth is just the oppoisate.

Since NAFTA, increased outsource and globerzation, and increased immagration - The US is better off for it. Wages are going up, we have a increase in white collar workers, cheaper goods, and full employement.

Free trade is where Clinton broke from the rest of the democratic party and was a great thing. Democrats need a person like Bill to come back and be willing to break with the party on some things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628576/site/newsweek/



Too bad Nafta is anything butr "Free Trade" to the US. Why would it take hundreds of pages to describe "Free" trade agreements?

[PeterMP]

Too bad Nafta is anything butr "Free Trade" to the US. Why would it take hundreds of pages to describe "Free" trade agreements?

Have you actually tried to look at it or is this just something you've read/heard somewhere and you spout it out because it sounds good? You can actually look at the document on line:

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/nafta-alena/chap01-en.asp?#Article104

To simplify it for you, free trade means no taxes on trade. It doesn't mean an unregulated border. For example, the trucks that Mexico uses to haul gas may have different safety requirements than those in the US. How do you handel that? In addition there are issues w/ different types of waste, we don't want a companies "trading" their nuclear waste to places in Mexico because we don't want any chance that could fall in the wrong hands. Lastly, their were preexsisting trade, conservation, and environmental agreements that were in place and their role w/ respect to NAFTA has to be addressed. Of course, all of this has to be done in properly goverment leagalize so it ends up taking alot room.