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Yeah and if they as well with this as NAFTA we are in TROUBLE

I shiver in me timbers everytime I hear some politico say they are going to fix anything. Government needs to get off the workers and businesses backs with confiscatory taxation. I think I understand why Randy Weaver moved to the mountains. See clip of NAFTA Failure below.

http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/nichols/64293.php


The facts confirm that NAFTA is a failure.

Instead of the trade surplus that was supposed to swell the U.S. economy, the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has grown from $9 billion in 1993 to almost $90 billion in 2003.

Instead of creating new jobs in the United States, NAFTA has been a job killer. Under the strict requirements of the NAFTA Trade Adjustment System, more than 525,000 U.S. workers have been officially certified as having lost their jobs as a result of the agreement. And that is just the tip of the job-loss iceberg; hundreds of thousands of additional positions have been eliminated in NAFTA-related factory cutbacks and closures.

Instead of raising U.S. wages, NAFTA has been used to depress pay. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, threats by U.S. corporations to move manufacturing operations overseas if workers join unions were heard in around 50 percent of union organizing drives before NAFTA went into effect. After its implementation, the threats were heard in close to 70 percent of organizing drives.

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