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Hoyt

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2. American auto makers were on a steep decline long before NAFTA.

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How Detroit Benefits from NAFTA [View all] Octafish Apr 2015 OP

American Axle... a once-booming city in itself... gone. ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #1

Auto Specialties Company...gone Octafish Apr 2015 #4

American auto makers were on a steep decline long before NAFTA. Hoyt Apr 2015 #2

Woodie would be proud. GeorgeGist Apr 2015 #3

I doubt it, but he could read a graph. Hoyt Apr 2015 #5

Woody Guthrie especially hated big business-spread lies brentspeak Apr 2015 #15

+1. ^this^ GoneFishin Apr 2015 #27

More than anything, he hated unemployment and poverty. Hoyt Apr 2015 #33

+1 For calling out nationalist and zenophobic bigot dog whistles, here of all places. appalachiablue Apr 2015 #34

''What's good for General Motors is good for America*'' means something else these days. Octafish Apr 2015 #6

Funny how we hate corporations until they are gone. Hoyt Apr 2015 #7

Yeah. Funny. Except, in this case, Corporations are our new Masters. Octafish Apr 2015 #8

Well, I wouldn't put the "Rent's to High Guy" in charge of our complicated economic system. Hoyt Apr 2015 #10

b/c the only alternative to sane trade policy is having the "rent's too high" guy in charge. nashville_brook Apr 2015 #12

Reminds me of what one Dude liked to push... Octafish Apr 2015 #28

capitalism is just one trade deal away from full enlightenment. nashville_brook Apr 2015 #30

Larry Summers' ''End-Game'' Memo: Like repealing Glass-Steagall on a planetary scale. Octafish Apr 2015 #32

'Self-correcting' is the concept Alan Greenspan used I believe. That really worked out well- appalachiablue Apr 2015 #35

How was Mr Fed to know Meyer Lansky had pioneered the concept? Octafish Apr 2015 #42

Twenty years after NAFTA, a mini Detroit rises in Mexico Octafish Apr 2015 #9

Mexican workers who are making $8/hour vs. 50 cents a day, are certainly better off. Hoyt Apr 2015 #13

Great. How are Mexico's farmers doing post-NAFTA? Octafish Apr 2015 #18

Just like American dirt farmers did better when they got jobs with Ford, etc Mexicans will do better Hoyt Apr 2015 #31

Funny you prove your own argument wrong. From the article: okaawhatever Apr 2015 #29

Actually, you're proving yourself wrong, as that's not my ''argument.'' Octafish Apr 2015 #37

I agree with taxing it, but it won't raise as much money as people think. Hoyt Apr 2015 #41

K&R. liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #11

Walmart is the world's largest company, owned by the world's richest family, thanks to NAFTA. Octafish Apr 2015 #16

Fuck NAFTA and fuck the TPP! Enthusiast Apr 2015 #14

NAFTA Has Decimated Detroit Octafish Apr 2015 #22

+1. It hasn't done much for Ohio either. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #24

Arkansas has been a mixed bag Art_from_Ark Apr 2015 #44

When Wal-Mart Went to Mexico Octafish Apr 2015 #45

Delphi didn't leave the mothership because of profitability JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #17

Thank you for filling in the story, JohnnyRingo! Octafish Apr 2015 #20

Anderson, IN once employed 60,000 AwakeAtLast Apr 2015 #43

But the TPP is going to FIX our NAFTA problems 99th_Monkey Apr 2015 #19

The Tooth Fairy sprinkled sleepy dust on me, because I don't remember reopening NAFTA in 2009. Octafish Apr 2015 #21

I'm sure you're right. With Republican support in Congress we won't need the Tooth Fairy! nt stillwaiting Apr 2015 #25

Flint too. Here is the AC Rochester Delphi Plant I worked at in the early 90s corkhead Apr 2015 #23

The Myth of American Democracy – Money Talks and Those Without Money Have No Voice Octafish Apr 2015 #36

K & R AzDar Apr 2015 #26

Cold Case Democracy and the Doctrine of “Corporate Personhood” Octafish Apr 2015 #40

interesting analysis hanon Apr 2015 #38

K & R Weep for Detroit, great American city & many other places & people in this strange, appalachiablue Apr 2015 #39