#nafta

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. ↗

— John F. Kerry

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It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#act #free #free trade #liberty #much

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

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As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#detrimental #economy #expected #gains #impact

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#digging #experience #far #find #given