What do you think about free-trade and NAFTA?
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I'm against trade deals. It pits one country against another country. The country that is left out of the deal then resents this country. Then we have to find a way to appease them. All these trade deals do is make jobs for lawyers accountants and beaurocrats.
What they need is something just called trade. The same tarriff dor every item for every country. Thats the way the country ran for the first 140 years bfore all these taxes came about. Granted their were a few problems economic wise. Always will be. But nothing like its been since we got off the tarriffs for supplying the government with money.
The only thing I might do is let the tarriff change with the currency fluctuation of the countries involved.
We are getting screwed by the Mexicans, and nobody's talk about it... Those gangsters... Now they come here to make money, but when our big business are going there, they unleash the hell out and they packed back over here few years later... As for Canada, almost nothing come from the US, while the US is getting 300billions a year of ressources from Canada... This deal is mostly one way, and its annoying...
Anyways, it was the first bricks necessary to built the North American Union... I never wish more to become a demolition specialist those days... Damn bricks...
Its a good idea and we should try to get the whole world into a free trade zone, and countries who commit international crimes of just bad acts internally shouldnt be allowed into the free trade zone, much like how mercosur and i think columbia
It was a bad idea. It could have worked if it intentions were not of a corruptive nature.
Its all part of the shift to globalization. As a country of consumers we are the slaves of the corporate world, no not labor slaves, those people are in China, no we are the consumer slaves. They want to creat a North American Union which will erase the borders of this country, merging it with Mexico, and Canada. The Amero will be the new currency.
Eventually the plan is to merge all the world's country unions, like the European Union, African Union, Asian Union, North American Union, into one giant World government. No I'm not paranoid, BUSH ALREADY PASSED THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION. Only one reporter was brave enough to speak out against this sale of our country. Lou Dobbs of CNN.
Don't believe me?
"President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.
The blueprint President Bush is following was laid out in a 2005 report entitled "Building a North American Community" published by the left-of-center Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union"
Do some research.
I don't like it at all, it is definately not in the best interests of the citizens of the US, just in the best interests of the corporatocracy and the uber wealthy who own stock in them.
Freedom and free trade is a good thing. The opposite is to have politicians and governments control trade.
The quickest way to screw up economies is not to have free people trade with whom they choose, it is to have politicians tell "free" people with whom they can trade and write laws to control those "free" people.
Economies and trading patterns have consistently changed for centuries (millennia). It has never been free people who have destroyed a country's economy beyond repair.
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It is designed for the big multinational corporations so they can make huge profits, plain and simple. They sold it too us as a great deal that all would benifit from but it hasn't worked that way. The greatest shift in jobs ever has occurred since nafta and all of the trade agreements not to mention out sourcing. Just look at the John Deere company they pay their employees here the going wage and they have trouble competing on the world stage, they open a factory in India and the average employee cost them $750.00 US a year, now ask yourself if you believe we will have factories in the US as long as dollars around the world have different value's and people live for different cost? No we won't and ask yourself if we become a service economy with all these immigrants coming to work for less if wages will go up in that sector? No they won't, what is happening is they are driving cost down here on the labour side to compete on the world stage and unless you are in a very insulated industry your wages are going to become stagnet and then go down and you will say, hey we need to make more because the cost of living is going up, and the leaders will say, hey you need to compete on the world stage, don't you want to compete on the world stage. lol do you see where this is going, didn't Perot tell us it would be a race to the bottom, and he has been right so far. Im not against trade, and competition is good for business but we need fair trade that is managed in a way so as to bring cost inline first and import export should be more open instead of just for the big corporations, just try going to Mexico and bringing stuff back without paying tariff's and you will see it's not for small business.
I don't think it is in the best interests of Canada. We have all the potable water..and it's power. Mexico has cheap labour...we all get screwed except big business.
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