NAFTA--a blast from the past

[eridani]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/hillary-clinton-pretends-_b_86747.html

Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting "a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA." Yes, you read that right: She traveled to Davos to thank corporate interests for their campaign ramming NAFTA through Congress.

On November 1, 1996, United Press International reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Clinton "touted the president's support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region."

The Associated Press followed up the next day noting that Hillary Clinton touted the fact that "the president would continue to support economic growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the North American Free Trade Agreement."

In her memoir, Clinton wrote, "Senator Dole was genuinely interested in health care reform but wanted to run for president in 1996. He couldn't hand incumbent Bill Clinton any more legislative victories, particularly after Bill's successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA."

[BlueJazz]

1. ...and some brave man said: Hear that Sucking sound? That's your jobs, Americans

[Armstead]

2. She's learned how bad the effects are for America since then....Oh wait....

we're still doing it. Obama is pushing them. And Clinton is, er, studying the issue.

Nevermind

[PatrickforO]

4. And this TISA is even worse than TPP if such a thing is possible.

I'll tell you, this is the oligarchs' move toward a new world order. We've heard Bush talk about it. We've heard Rockefeller talk about it. Larry McDonald died mysteriously after talking about it.

“We will succeed in the Gulf. And when we do, the world community will have sent an enduring warning to any dictator or despot, present or future, who contemplates outlaw aggression. The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fufill the long-held promise of a new world order – where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance.”
–President George HW Bush, State of the Union Address 1991

“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control. Do I mean a conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, incredibly evil in intent.”
–Rep. Larry P. MacDonald, killed in Korean Air Lines 007, 1983

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
—Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of State, TIME, July 1992

'Free trade' has been horrible for the people of the United States. I don't know what Obama and Clinton are doing even flirting with it right now. We're lucky Bernie's talking about it, and Warren too. Otherwise it would sneak through with a whimper, just like the Federal Reserve Act did.

[antigop]

3. and HRC played a leading part in drafting the TPP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=67554