Reply #10: There's a lot that's upsde down about NAFTA..no arguing it [View All]

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

But I am amazed at liberals arguing against trade and wanting world peace in the same breath.

I went to the very first conference in Rio back in the early 90's. It was clear then that if the rest of the world developed at the rate that we did the planet could NOT sustain itself, but by the same token, NOT having trade with certain nations resulted in them living a lifetime of poverty.

Some of the fine print of NAFTA took Democrats by surprise and the best source for info on this are William Grieder's articles.

One other HUGE aspect of trade is that Republicans didn't want to pay UN dues during this time when we SHOULD have been working on labor rights in other countries and FORCING their hands in the matter.

FAIR TRADE is an issue. FAIR trade would help to right many of the world's ills.

The power multinational corporations have is a function of the fact that they CAN set up shop in another country to avoid US labor laws. The way to correct this is to help other countries fashion labor laws..NOT to get protectionist about trade.

To do otherwise is to pretend you deserve to live a cottled life and they don't.

Get out from behind your computers and TRAVEL to latin America..I have.

The solutions are NOT easy but protectionism is NOT one of them.