Is that a joke? In all due respect any rational person would look toward lending and Iraq via the current real-estate problem not NAFTA.

You could argue NAFTA hurting wages and jobs did not help, but they were against NAFTA.

I am lost by your post.

Even fewer are aware that American manufacturing began its terminal decline one bright day back in March 1943, a decline that saw the share of American employment in manufacturing fall from 44.1% to barely 16% last year.

The pace was sporadic at first, and masked by the soaring increase in jobs in the service sector. But, with just a single exception (1984), the grand national economic restructuring has succeeded in reducing dependence on factory jobs in each and every one of the past 30 years.

Clearly, NAFTA, China and the other hogwash has absolutely nothing at all to do with this simple reality.
For political reasons, Clinton, Obama, and McCain have not discussed this true picture.

It is far easier to make up fairy tales about how trade “hurts” real American families, while ignoring the lower prices they can afford. Imagine if Congress actually had to admit that trade was good!

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Interesting choice of sources.

“Economyincrisis.org” doesn’t tell anything about itself on the website, except for its political slant. Digging into the background revels a bit more (this took me all of 20 minutes)—

Main backer Thomas L. Heffner of Duke Realty Corp has a nice string of political campaign donations to Richard Lugar, Bush-Cheney ‘04 and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc’s Political Action Committee (http://tinyurl.com/3bh57k).

Duke is “the largest publicly-traded office and industrial real estate company in the United States” (http://tinyurl.com/2zwqnq), so at least we know he has the little guy’s interest at heart.

Now, it is possible that this guy just has the same name as the owner of the website ranting about the declining value of factory space, and that Duke Realty’s massive holdings of Mid-Western and Texas industrial land has absolutely nothing to do with the whacko isolationist views of economyincrisis.org.

It is also entirely possible that little green men will be shortly landing in an area near you.

“Summary: Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers — even those with college degrees — have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributing income.”

Kenneth F. Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Matthew J. Slaughter is Professor of Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2007.

A good article showing that NAFTA is one of the causes of the increase in illegal immigration which takes American jobs as well.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0422-28.htm

The CFR itself on NAFTA. Robert Pastor is a leading proponent of the creation of the NAU.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/north_american_community_approach_to_security.html

“NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America. It was a deliberately lean document, intended only to dismantle barriers to trade and investment. Its architects planned neither for its success nor for the crises that would confront it.” Robert Pastor

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040101faessay83112/robert-a-pastor/north-america-s-second-decade.html

And last but not least CFR economic policy makers admitting that NAFTA and globalization have made the rich richer and the rest of us poorer.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86403/kenneth-f-scheve-matthew-j-slaughter/a-new-deal-for-globalization.html

Show me where unions are “banned” in NAFTA.

Give it up John. Unions caused loss of jobs, not NAFTA.