NAFTA-GATE
The mortgage meltdown is a by product of many different unsavory things. One of them is the effect of NAFTA and our complete lack of control over our borders which has suddenly sliced into the ability of middle-class to keep their job, get a job or earn enough to pay the mortgage and other expenses, even with multiple incomes.
NAFTA-GATE is a good thing. It focuses attention on a central problem. When President Clinton signed it, congress loved it, Hillary praised it right up until 2 years ago despite the obvious loss of jobs, and the American public didn’t understand it. Now that we are starting to understand it, and we don’t like it. The more we learn about how it is being executed, the less we like it. Executive ability again comes front and center.
Canada has its own problems with lower wages and loss of economic power. They have their own interest in seeing changes in NAFTA. It is quite likely that they reached out to find out what specifically the candidates had in mind.
Obama’s people, according to the latest reports simply repeated what he had said in public.
Clinton’s people apparently did two things according to the very latest information — [a] reassured Canadian officials that campaign rhetoric is not policy and [b] got someone in Canada to leak an anti-Obama memo that would give Clinton an advantage in Ohio and Texas. Clinton admits that the untruthful NAFTA leak gave her an advantage. This eliminates Obama as a likely player in the creation of this script.
With investigations started in Canada, demands for resignations, accusations of meddling in American politics, apologies and finger-pointing we are once again left with dishonesty on the part of SOMEONE in the Canadian government, SOMEONE in the CLINTON campaign, and at least confusion in the Obama Campaign. It seems obvious that the one with the most likely access to Canadian officials would be Bill Clinton as former President since Obama had very little to do with Canada until now.
Once again we are dealing with a failure of executive leadership on the part of the Prime MInister, who should have had a handle on this if neutrality was the objective and a failure of executive leadership and judgment on the part of Hillary Clinton who was either dishonest or didn’t know what was going on).
Once again we are diverted from the real issues of renegotiating or opting out of NAFTA. In theory it was a great idea. In practice it is killing us. Canada could start with publicly stating its position on NAFTA, what it likes and what it doesn’t like.
The Candidates have started that discourse, but whether Clinton means what she says now or intends to return to her consistent praise of NAFTA and pride in her husband’s achievement in signing NAFTA is anyone’s guess.
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A couple things I don’t like about NAFTA. The Energy Provisions have to go. We should be able to shut off the tap any time we think we’re being screwed like on Softwood Lumber. Talk about job losses and a myopic ‘deal breaking’ Congress. Next the freedom of movement of professionals has to go. We want our Nurses back from the hiatus of TN slavery. You don’t need those hospital beds anyway. Then the Agricultural framework has to go. So you don’t have COOPs or Marketing Boards but you have ungodly export subsidies. Finally, all the defacto trade restrictions in regulatory parity must go. Your idea of ‘fair trade’ under these provisions is all too obvious. One example would be the one sided handling of mad cow. Guess who the Japaness trusted to fix things, cereal grain ginished is better than corn finished anyway. In other words lets build a wall and talk through Walmart and China.
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