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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:09 PM Aug 2016

Why Are We Allowing NAFTA to Kill Us???

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Why Are We Allowing NAFTA to Kill Us??? (Original Post) thomhartmann Aug 2016 OP

Because we no longer have a say in what our government does Warpy Aug 2016 #1

I like Thom H., but here he is only telling part of the story . . FairWinds Aug 2016 #2

Warpy

(111,261 posts)

1. Because we no longer have a say in what our government does

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:12 PM

Aug 2016

That's why Trump is so popular among people who have been ground down for decades. They know he'll wreck everything, at least that is their most fervent hope.

FairWinds

(1,717 posts)

2. I like Thom H., but here he is only telling part of the story . .

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:27 PM

Aug 2016

that is, the effect of NAFTA & globalist trade on the US.

But that is only part of the story.

The reality is that NAFTA has been awful for working people
in ALL THREE COUNTRIES. Mexicans and Canadians hate it just
as much as we do.

Defeating the globalist trade regime will take an international
movement - not just a self absorbed, navel gazing US movement.

Americans miss that point all the time; and it drives me nuts.

This shows very considerable Canadian opposition to NAFTA ..

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/27/nafta-poll-three-amigos-summit_n_10701548.html

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