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February 16th 2008 20:25
Bizarre Politics Reports:
NAFTA in Clintonia
In Clintonia, where everything depended on what your definition of "is" is , Bill and Hillary with "Green" Gore pushed the passage of both NAFTA and GATT trade agreements. It was their pet project. While HIllary talked about other things, workers were being betrayed.
In the 1980s, Hillary was on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors for seven years. ( Unions and labor still ignore these facts even today - your own union has been in denial for years.))
Although Big Business strongly endorsed NAFTA, support among the rank and file Republicans was not strong in 1993. News polls after the House vote on NAFTA showed that only 33 percent of registered Republicans favored its approval. ( Today, close to 70 percent of Republicans in a poll by the Wall Street Journal, says NAFTA and Free Trade are dismal failures.)
In 1993, the Clintons conducted a media blitz to shape public opinion. President Clinton launched the blitz September 14, 1993 by briefing Congressional leaders at which Presidents Ford, Carter and the "new world order" Bush the elder expressed their support for NAFTA. Blumenthal called the blitz " this giant political campaign". It involved almost all industrial and trade associations in the country, 16 Nobel Prize winning and more than 250 other economists, Lee Iacocca and statements by the President of Mexico. The high point of the orchestration came after "Green" VP Al Gore voice was accepted by the media and the public as a leading spokesman.
They ganged up on Ross Perot and made a statirical thing out of Perot's statement - "giant sucking sound" of jobs going south. Actually many jobs had alread gone south even prior to the passing of NAFTA. The U.S. Government itself sponsored the moving of factories to Mexico starting in 1956 which evolved into the Maquiladora factory program using impoverished Mexcian workers. It took about thirty five years to move more than 2,000 factories to Mexico. After, NAFTA was passed in 1993, the number doubled to more than 4,000 quickly.
There are two heroes we should mention here that fought the passage of NAFTA from the start. Two Democrats, Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and Sen Bryon Dorgan of North Dakota, tried to stop the tide.
NAFTA was a failure from the start. President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. Prior to the passing of NAFTA, the United States had a positive trade balance. In 1995, just two years after NAFTA, the net trade deficit was running $15 billion and the deficit continues to break records since then.
Another indicator exposed the terrible imbalance in automakers' exports to Mexico. The U.S. exported a meager 19,000 cars and trucks in 1995 to Mexico, while imports of vehicles made in Mexico topped out at 495,674. Reportedly, an new auto plant was built in Mexico without the need for an employee parking lot.
Proponents of NAFTA said it would reduce the envirnomental damage on the other side of the border. However, the Maguiladora factory workers population increased from 546,588 workers to 742,700 working "dirty" manufacturing settings which would not be allowed in the USA. There are countless stories of health problems and abnormal births on both sides of the border. ( This did not stopped "Green" Gore taking on the role of the "Green Giant" to save the ecology. Someone should tell him there are no walls in the sky to stop pollution. )
Finally, the Free-Traders said
NAFTA will reduce illegal immigration.
It is obvious to all of us , a haunting illegal immigration flood has taken over our land. In our last post, Mexican Bishops plead against NAFTA as being a cultural death , tells us a story of this economic terror.
Are you "merely a consumer" shopping your way out of your job - or are you ready to do something about it. See Open Letter to all Presidential Candidates
At least take this into consideration:
Electing Hillary as President is like putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop and all the other major candidates are not that much different. -- " The giant sucking sound" is coming to your own front door.
The Pearl Harbor Attack on Workers - Bush joins Clintons in 2001 continues......:
In the 1980s, Hillary was on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors for seven years. ( Unions and labor still ignore these facts even today - your own union has been in denial for years.))
Although Big Business strongly endorsed NAFTA, support among the rank and file Republicans was not strong in 1993. News polls after the House vote on NAFTA showed that only 33 percent of registered Republicans favored its approval. ( Today, close to 70 percent of Republicans in a poll by the Wall Street Journal, says NAFTA and Free Trade are dismal failures.)
In 1993, the Clintons conducted a media blitz to shape public opinion. President Clinton launched the blitz September 14, 1993 by briefing Congressional leaders at which Presidents Ford, Carter and the "new world order" Bush the elder expressed their support for NAFTA. Blumenthal called the blitz " this giant political campaign". It involved almost all industrial and trade associations in the country, 16 Nobel Prize winning and more than 250 other economists, Lee Iacocca and statements by the President of Mexico. The high point of the orchestration came after "Green" VP Al Gore voice was accepted by the media and the public as a leading spokesman.
They ganged up on Ross Perot and made a statirical thing out of Perot's statement - "giant sucking sound" of jobs going south. Actually many jobs had alread gone south even prior to the passing of NAFTA. The U.S. Government itself sponsored the moving of factories to Mexico starting in 1956 which evolved into the Maquiladora factory program using impoverished Mexcian workers. It took about thirty five years to move more than 2,000 factories to Mexico. After, NAFTA was passed in 1993, the number doubled to more than 4,000 quickly.
There are two heroes we should mention here that fought the passage of NAFTA from the start. Two Democrats, Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and Sen Bryon Dorgan of North Dakota, tried to stop the tide.
NAFTA was a failure from the start. President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. Prior to the passing of NAFTA, the United States had a positive trade balance. In 1995, just two years after NAFTA, the net trade deficit was running $15 billion and the deficit continues to break records since then.
Another indicator exposed the terrible imbalance in automakers' exports to Mexico. The U.S. exported a meager 19,000 cars and trucks in 1995 to Mexico, while imports of vehicles made in Mexico topped out at 495,674. Reportedly, an new auto plant was built in Mexico without the need for an employee parking lot.
Proponents of NAFTA said it would reduce the envirnomental damage on the other side of the border. However, the Maguiladora factory workers population increased from 546,588 workers to 742,700 working "dirty" manufacturing settings which would not be allowed in the USA. There are countless stories of health problems and abnormal births on both sides of the border. ( This did not stopped "Green" Gore taking on the role of the "Green Giant" to save the ecology. Someone should tell him there are no walls in the sky to stop pollution. )
Finally, the Free-Traders said
NAFTA will reduce illegal immigration.
It is obvious to all of us , a haunting illegal immigration flood has taken over our land. In our last post, Mexican Bishops plead against NAFTA as being a cultural death , tells us a story of this economic terror.
Are you "merely a consumer" shopping your way out of your job - or are you ready to do something about it. See Open Letter to all Presidential Candidates
At least take this into consideration:
Electing Hillary as President is like putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop and all the other major candidates are not that much different. -- " The giant sucking sound" is coming to your own front door.
The Pearl Harbor Attack on Workers - Bush joins Clintons in 2001 continues......:
Pearl Harbor Attack on Workers with NAFTA etc
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