Hagan on NAFTA

[ccharles000]

“While I understand the President’s desire to maintain a good relationship with our North American trading partners, I am disappointed US Trade Representative Ron Kirk has said it is not necessary to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),” said Hagan. “This country’s current trade policy is not working. The manufacturing economy in North Carolina has suffered and far too many North Carolinians have lost their jobs. It is only right we require our trading partners to enforce the labor and environmental standards that we ask of our manufacturing industry.”

http://www.bluenc.com/hagan-nafta#comments

[jody]

1. Obama needs to fulfill his campaign promises to labor to change NAFTA.

Barack Obama on Free Trade

[WhiteTara]

2. he needs to fulfill any of his promises

to labor.

[jody]

3. Perhaps he will, after the corporatists have had their fill and labor can snack on the crumbs. n/t

[WhiteTara]

4. crumbs will be the most

that will be left. Perhaps the pandemic will wipe out half the earth and "we" can have more! :rofl: Sorry...gallows humor.

[jody]

5. Your gallows humor may be accurate since we peasants and serfs are genetically tailored to survive.

[Skwmom]

9. Your not supposed to notice the HUGE giveaway to the banking crooks.

You're supposed to focus on the fact that they didn't have their water glasses refilled when they visited the Whitehouse.

Forget the marketing, image campaign. I'd like to see some substance.

[jody]

12. My view below contrasting Rockwell's "Freedom from Want" with today.

[Hippo_Tron]

6. We could likely crush Mexico in a tariff war, but...

Given how de-stabilized Mexico is becoming, the situation will only speed up if there if those textile jobs in Mexico are lost if we renegotiate NAFTA. I think the first thing we need to do is stop fighting the war on drugs and stop subsidizing our corn. Then we can talk about re-negotiating NAFTA and putting tariffs on our manufacturing.

[Thrill]

7. Not a chance, they mess with NAFTA when there is a Global Economic crisis

Thats just reality. This is simply one of the things you can't do right now. Also everything doesn't have to be done in his first yr in office

[Skwmom]

8. America has an economic crisis because of unfair trade agreements.

Corporations continue to move jobs overseas. Government spending is NOT a long term fix and does not address the substance of the issue.

Our economic crisis makes it even MORE imperative to address unfair trade agreements.

[w4rma]

10. NAFTA is part of the *cause* of this economic crisis. It and all the other 'free' trade agreements

had better get messed with.

[HopeOverFear]

11. I knew this would be the next outrage du jour