NAFTA went into effect on January 1st, 1994 as a means to ease trade restrictions between Canada, Mexico and the United States, but what it actually is, we can no longer ignore. The idea that other countries would participate under NAFTA would create a union capable of equalizing the purchasing power with one currency, and ideally....goods from anyone of those countries would be the same price.
The problem with that theory is the cost of living factor and the inflation rates of each country as it relates to each other. Only a few countries participate under NAFTA, but with special restrictions. Chile negotiated three separate bilateral agreements concerning restrictions to liberalization of their industries and regulation of environmental protection. Jamaica, Trinidad, and Tobago have similar agreements. Most other countries want nothing to do with NAFTA.....
Manufacturers and the agriculture sector have gone full circle with NAFTA and the time to regroup and get back to basic trade agreements and tariffs, is the only solution that can effectively rebuild the United States again. NAFTA is the reason why the very poor of Mexico emigrate to the United States. Farmers in Mexico cannot compete with the declining value of their own crops under NAFTA, even though output has increased!
The cheap labor of Mexico has destroyed the U.S. labor force and continues to impoverish Americans. The United States exports our own products and agriculture, while importing other country's same or similar products. All this does is put more money in the pockets of the stockholders and owners of mega businesses that use cheap labor of other countries. It serves no purpose as a solution for an economy in destruction by continuing a failed treaty.
NAFTA also introduced a clever "Gotch ya" law under a "NAFTA Chapter 11" provision that forces the other country to take the product or face a lawsuit.
MMT, a gasoline additive, was banned in the U.S. from 1977 to 1995 and was banned in Canada from 1997 to 1998 due to health concerns. Just after NAFTA went into effect in 1994, a U.S. company was all of a sudden marketing MMT and decided that Canada needed to add MMT to their gasoline. Canada said no, and were promptly sued under "NAFTA Chapter 11" and was forced to pay a settlement of $13 million dollars to the U.S. company. Other lawsuits and disputes continue to this day between Canada and the U.S., one being the dispute over softwood lumber imports. Prime Minister Harper agreed on a compromise July 2006 but it has not been ratified (in-part) due to domestic opposition.
The most powerful treaty in the world created enormous job losses in the U.S. and continues to be the focus of major debate. Canada's citizens and U.S. citizens continue to hammer politicians and the incoming Obama administration about the effects of NAFTA. Obama has some serious thinking to do and the issue is not going to go away anytime soon. NAFTA is bad for all three countries involved and the evidence is on the table for all to see.
We as concerned citizens of where our country is headed can easily see why the power elites need NAFTA to survive. Basically, you cannot formulate a North American Union without a treaty that combines the fruits of our labor under one currency, and without a North American Union, the power elites cannot (later) merge the North American Union with the European Union...and so on.
The theory only works if there is a clear divide between poverty and wealth. The middle class cannot survive, people cannot thrive in their own businesses, and the restrictions on commodities filters down to every single consumer. Whereby, restricting entrepreneurs from marketing their ideas and versions of a product, or what is contained in a product. That is the goal...a protection mechanism for only those already in the game.
Unfortunately, it is at the cost of our sovereignty and liberties, while a police state is introduced to protect the mega markets, while destroying the mini-markets under a mafia style tactic. If Obama fails the American people and allows NAFTA to thrive, while supporting the NAFTA Super Highway Corridor....then his plans for socialism is the only solution for a failed America. Note: Texans believe they have stopped the NAFTA Super Highway in it's tracks, but many speculate the decision by Governor Perry to localize and rebuild in separate sectors...calling them improvement projects, is a complete sham, the NAFTA Highway is just on-hold.
NAFTA was created by globalists for globalists and Bill Clinton was just another puppet that helped push the paperwork right under our noses without our approval and was conveniently reenergized by the Bush Administration under the SPP. We did it to ourselves and we need to get ourselves out of this mess.
Texas is one state to watch and that state will set the stage for where we will be in the next few years. Break-away regions under a North American Union may be the only solution to an out-of-control problem....and maybe that is why Texas is the "Lone Star State."
"For the United States, the main issue is jobs. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, cites a loss of 200,000 manufacturing jobs due to NAFTA for his state alone. The nation has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs since 1994, and its trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has risen to $138.5 billion in 2007 from $9.1 billion in 1993. The opposition to NAFTA within the United States goes well beyond organized labor. While job loss and insecurity under globalization were major constituency-builders in blue-collar states during the elections, polls taken before the election revealed that a national majority opposes free trade and particularly NAFTA, and that opinion increased during the campaign. A June 2008 Rasmussen nationwide poll showed 56% in favor of renegotiating NAFTA. Many people feel that NAFTA has given companies incentives to move production to where labor is cheaper, exporting jobs and eroding working conditions."
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