Hillary NAFTA betrays workers

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Hillary Clinton's convenient turnabout on NAFTA and free trade - ( History tells the story )
Friday, March 07, 2008
Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters Editorial Page

Voters are shopping their jobs away at places like Wal-Mart and now are vot ing their jobs away by supporting Hillary Clinton. Here is the real timeline behind free trade:

1956 - U.S. government starts moving factories outside the United States.

1970 - 120 factories moved from the United States to Mexico.

1980 - 400 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1980s - While Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart, about 1,000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico.

1992 - 2,000 maquiladora factories in Mexico.

1994 - NAFTA is passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton; number of factories moved to Mexico doubles to more than 4,000; reports tell of "dirty manufacturing" in Mexico causing health problems and birth defects.

1995 - President Clinton rushes $20 billion to save the Mexican economy. Then he uses other means to rush even more money to Mexico. ( President asked Congress for $40 billion but they gave him just $20 billion instead- he said he would use other means to get the extra money to bail out the Mexican peso )

1996 - Hillary says NAFTA is good for everyone.

2000 - Hillary, at an economic forum in Switzerland, praises business efforts in supporting NAFTA.

None of the above stopped the flood of Mexican workers to the United States seeking economic survival.

Now, after all of that, Hillary says free trade has to be tweaked at bit.

Ray Tapajna

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Letters Editors
March 7, 2008

Read what ten Mexican bishops think about NAFTA at [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link.

Read more about the history of free trade failures at [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. or see
[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link.

The big questions are :
Who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena?
When did the definition and practice of free trade change from trading products to moving production, factories and jobs from place to place based on cheapest labor costs?
How can U.S. workers ever compete with third world nations without becoming one itself?
Who will pay for the entitlements- like Social Security and Medicare?

Why did Pres. Bill Clinton go out of his way to get NAFTA and GATT passed. He even called Congress back in a lame duck session of Congress during their Thanksgiving vacation in 1993 - inorder to get GATT passed even though the Republicans won Congress and were going to take over control the coming January. As a result, history will show it was a Democrat controlled Congress that passed both NAFTA and GATT. Hillary has been close to trade issues as noted in the above letter for more than twenty-five years. She is not new to the game and NAFTA only consummated what was going on for a very long time. See more articles at [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link.
or search under clinton years american dream reversed or tapart globalization,