Time to repeal those trade agreements?
915346
The biggest gorilla can do what it wants.  It would actually help the US economy to repeal trade agreements with developing nations that don't follow the same workers rights since the US education system is still based on an industrial economic platform.
625390
There is absolutely time for a change! There needs to be another party that will do the will of the people. Instead of them spending us into bankruptcy. This goes for both sides of the isle. They need to get rid of the perks they have voted for themselves.It is a part time job! We need to secure our borders and protect domestically first. We are not the saviors of the rest of the world when it come to money or our military. We The People must stand up and get only the best for our nation. We must get rid of the cancers that are infesting our nation today! \nJust my opinion --aught to be yours!
1064421
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. As GB is not part of North America, there is no reason they should be in the agreement. It would be like trying to include the USA in the EU.
190712
Another economic depression is possible.  Currently the U.S. is in several billion dollars of debt.  Most of this money was borrowed from Asian countries, (particularly China).  If our current trade agreement with China goes south, we will find ourselves with no money and massive debt.  Taxes will be raised and buisnesses will close down.  No imports from China means prices on all goods skyrocket.  Remember though, these events are highly unlikely.
856878
I think this issue will be revisited and revised to give American industry a fighting chance. We need to protect good paying jobs and industry that is vital to this country's economic success.\n\nLeogirl....I think he means the one George Bush Sr. spearheaded and congress continued to push for in Clinton's term by attaching language for tariffs on imported products that later were removed.....get your history right before blaming Clinton for that fiasco.
895950
your economics is out of date mate\nsign up and take the consequences
854760
I started poking around the site and found some of the other things about NAFTA, FTAA and SPP.  It really is scary that so many people do not understand what is happening to our country.  A lot of people will call you a bigot or a hate monger if you say something about illegals.  I really have more of a problem with the government lying and saying they are doing something about the illegal immigration.  The fact is, they let it happen because it is part of the broader plan to make Canada/United States/Mexico one economic entity.  This will at some point lead to one country.  And they sit there and say you are unpatriotic if you don't support the war in Iraq!  In the meantime they are stabbing the American public in the back and selling them down the river.  I must reiterate, I don't hate the illegals.  I hate those that have let our borders turn into a "free trade zone".
1057283
Its time to bring back tariffs that Reagan reversed. You want to make stuff somewhere else for other countries go ahead but if you want to ship it hear its going to cost you, that is how you protect the people from the economic terrorist.
33567
I hate to break it to you, but Ford and GM have been operating in a vacuum for too long.  The layoffs are tragic (I'm from Lansing, Michigan, so I'm speaking as someone whose seen the effects first hand).  But you can't run a company that loses billions of dollars every year forever.  As for China, President Bush doesn't have the legal authority to really do anything about trade with China.  Most of our trade agreements have been set through international treaties and other arangements, ratifed by the Senate, and most of them predate his term in office. He would have a hard time altering them.  Besides, the American government's attempts as 'helping' the economy are someone notorious.  I think you should invest in reading up on the issue before posting questions out of sheer emotional responce.
243477
NAFTA was a controversial plan that Clinton got passed to open up ... well, North America to free trade.  That means that Mexico can ship stuff to us without paying tariffs and vice versa.  The problem has been that a lot of jobs have moved to Mexico where people work for less money (and businesses have fewer restrictions like health care and OSHA) because now it's free to send stuff back to the US (Well, you still have to pay shipping :)
1039468
Under neo-liberal rules, you are expected to quietly go over to a ditch and die. \n\nYou could always try to work against neo-liberalism and write your elected officials daily to tell them to stop - deregulating industry, dropping trade barriers, freeing up currency, cutting government spending, de-unionizing, cutting pensions, cutting wlefare and subsities, and allowing so-called "entrepreunrial gods" to push our government around.  \n\nThink about it - India took much of the US manufacturing sector away from us (through the neo-liberal market) raising their GDP 48% (per worker) in just 6 years (1997-2003).  In that same yearwages went from 25 cents an hour to... 23 cents an hour. WTF? right?  who got the money? 100% of the profit from OUR manufacturing jobs went into India's richest 1% of people.  The elite.  Now they do international business and owe nothing to the people of ANY country.  \n\nThis is just one breif example of what the neo-cons (for obvious reasons, neo-greed, want the US to be like)  They are jumping ship, economically... the SS private funds Bush is trying to make us accpet, rather than Bond protected Social security?  All invested in other markets of course, so bye bye USA... that is if we let it happen...\n\nmeanwhile go apply at Home Depot or open an e-bay "store" people make tons of money at that everyday...\n\npeace
433720
Our annual trade deficit has ballooned to $726 billion and our federal budget deficit in fiscal 2006 is $423 billion -- an alarming 3.2 percent of gross domestic product, or national economic output. Workers' wages have been stagnant for 20 years and now they are actually declining. Employer-provided health care is shrinking and 46 million people -- most of them from working families -- have no health care coverage.\n\nOur nation is headed in the wrong direction, and now is the time to take steps to turn it around.\n\nInstead of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy and allowing multinational corporations to ship our best jobs offshore, we have to repeal the Bush tax cuts and insist that Congress repeal federal tax laws that reward corporations that send jobs offshore!$6.592 trillion: Federal debt on June 26, 2003, the day Josh Bolten became director of the Office of Management and Budget.\n\n$8.364 trillion: Federal debt today.\n\nIn the Bush administration, this is grounds for a promotion. On January 26, 2006, Bush said in one of his carefully crafted press conferences, "Our economy is growing, it is strong. This economy has created millions of new jobs, yet it's an economy that is changing rapidly." The jobs being created are a result of unconstitutional looting of the people's treasury by Congress for votes. These are government jobs which lure the people into more and more dependency upon mother government. With our major job sectors destroyed because of NAFTA and GATT, Americans are desperate for any sort of decent paying jobs. It will get worse now that Congress and Bush sold us out again with CAFTA. Sadly, Americans are taking jobs with the Nazi, draconian and worthless Department of Homeland Security. Once those pay checks start rolling in, they will not bite the hand that feeds them. This is how slaves are made. The late, great American, Ezra Taft Benson, wrote in his work, An Enemy Hath Done This, that America will be destroyed from within by Americans. His prediction so many decades ago is materializing right before our eyes.
1135051
As a far left liberal, I have always said free trade will only work when you impose labor laws on the companies going to other countries and you still provide incentives for countries to stay here. \n\nIf you don't do either, what results is huge amounts of companies going to a different country, exploiting the cheap labor with no labor laws to hender you from doing so, then paying no penalty for leaving this country. \n\nThe end result is both the USA and the country they went to losing... with the company only getting richer. \n\nIt is LONG OVERDUE to reverse things like NAFTA and CAFTA!
408819
That's why the only solution as I mentioned in my question, is to have some European Union Style Organization for the three countries in Nafta. \n\nWhat other measure do you think will fix the problem? What would be the problem with trying to achieve the aforementioned goal?
241801
Let you figure this out. You manufacture computer tables in the USA, your cost is $50, i move to mexico and make the same table for $15, anytime i decide to start selling them for $45, guess who's going out of business. Since the free trade (NAFTA) was signed in 1992, about one million manufacturing jobs have went south, Good luck with your career of flipping burgers.
409317
Wisesayer makes sense.  Note: the Smoot-Hawley Act killed free-trade.  Farmers would have lost the 'world markets' for their products.  The net result would be a temporary oversupply of farm products in the U.S.  This would quickly result in bank loan foreclosures on the insolvent farmers who couldn't sell the products of their labor for a profit.  Destruction of free trade was an important piece of the downward economic spiral the government created for depression era Americans (and the world).\n\nThe question is, have we learned anything?  Bush, in his first term signed  laws that again limited some free trade (steel, lumber and possibly cattle tariffs).  I am not a supporter of much of what Clinton did as President, but the one economic issue he 'got right' was his strong support of free trade.
132929
Wonderful thing Clinton did wasn't it.  Yet people scorn Bush for the economy he was left with.    I think it sould be repealed.... in other words done away with.  But what do I know, I'm a hard working American, seeing every job around go overseas.  Call Dell, and see what type of support you can get when talking to an Indian!