How has your opinion of NAFTA changed since 5-10 years ago?

[lostnfound]

One last NAFTA poll..
This is meant to measure your opinions about NAFTA in its current condition (i.e., not a hypothetical future agreement with changes)

[knight_of_the_star]

1. How about

Didn't have one five to ten years ago :).

[Maple]

5. The free trade agreement

was signed in 1988.

Mexico joined later.

There were labor and environmental side agreements to it in 1994.

[IrateCitizen]

12. Maybe in Canada, but here in the US it was ratified in 1993.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. nafta was created

by the manufacturing buisness because all the factories they put up in mexico the truckers trucking goods in from mexico (makeing about $5 an hour) had to stop at the border and switch loads with an american truck driver makeing $15-$30 an hour, its all about profits.

[stevedeshazer]

2. Wrong, then and now.

This is a huge issue, but most don't seem to grasp that it is or why. It's why I voted for Nader in '96 and '00.

[lostnfound]

10. A kick hoping for more votes. It is a huge issue and

it's why I support Kucinich first among the candidates.

[Syrinx]

3. I wrote an article for a journalism class about it at the time

And I gathered that it would be of little real consequence. That some workers would benefit, some would suffer. Turns out all workers lost, and corporations won decisively. I was lying in a hospital bed under the influence of demerol when the famous debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot was on Larry King. I thought Al killed Ross, but now I think Perot was closer to the truth.

[FDRrocks]

4. Opposed it now, and then...

I was an isolationist, and now I realize the market (aka, American Capitalist pigs (no kidding)) won't let me be an isolationist.

Somehow, our economic dick must be everywhere.

[spindoctor]

7. Being the first to vote for #2, allow me to clarify

I think NAFTA in general is a good thing. I do believe in a world economy, and I feel that treaties like NAFTA are essential to establsih that.
Having said that, I do not think that NAFTA in its current form benefits the average citizen in the US and I definitely do not believe in trickle-down economy (duh).

[Il_Coniglietto]

8. Too young to have an opinion then

but I oppose it now.

[iangb]

9. In case you're interested.

The US is negotiating a FTA with us down in Australia presently.

Some of us Aussies are a bit concerned at the possible effects of such an agreement (the concerns range from your agricultural subsidies to our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which provides prescription medicines at no more than $17..and is hated by US pharmaceutical Co's)

ABC (Aus) is having a forum at http://www2b.abc.net.au/news/forum/newsonline3/default.htm .

Your comments are welcome.

[IrateCitizen]

11. NAFTA was my "final straw" for registering independent in 1994.

And I remained "independent" until 2001. That was how deep my disillusionment ran with the Clinton administration, especially after they pushed NAFTA through. :grr: