Reply #7: I'm with you, NAFTA is ripping our country apart [View All]

[MadHound]

Well paying manufacturing jobs are now fleeing over the border, H1-B visas are bringing in high tech workers who will work for much less. It is all forcing the American worker to compete with the rest of the world population for having the lowest wage. Yes, we temporarily benefit by getting cheap crap from China, but in the long run the whole world loses. Once all of the well paying jobs are gone, and the average working slob has no money, who are they going to sell their cheap crap to?

Rather than going about globalisation in this manner, what we need to do is raise the rest of the world up to our standards. Pay living wages for people all around the globe, with adequate benefits, no child labor, and reasonable work enviroment. Yes, we as American consumers might pay a little more(possibly as much as ten percent more) but the benefits to the US and the world would be enourmous.

This is why I just have to roll my eyes when the Clinton sychophants point to the prosperity of the Clinton years. Yeah right, how are we as a nation prosperous when the major gains in prosperity were for those in the financial sector, our standard of living dropped by 3.1 %, the number of working poor increased dramaticly and all of this wonderful job creation were mostly McJobs for minimum wage.

And yes, it has had the effect of destroying the unions and the labor movement(smart move Dems, destroying even more of your base) and is also a great vehicle for class warfare. The rich want to reduce all of us to the level of serfs so as to increase their power and influence. So much for Clinton and the Dems being the party of the working man. Sheesh, and people wonder why I've gone Green.