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Populist_Prole

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3. True. It only looks good in the macro sense

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 01:29 PM

Jul 2013

Not the real world sense. In any case, it's not that a "job" is a job is a job. If good jobs are replaced with lousy ones, it may look OK statistically but those actually affected have less money, and so there goes the demand.

I've sparred for many years on online forums with conservatives and neoliberals over the corrosive effects of NAFTA and other trade agreements. Some actually did admit that the whole "it'll be good for US exports to Mexico" angle they tried to sell it with was BS. It was always about labor arbitrage.

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It created jobs unequally in different parts of the US, but that was already true Recursion Jul 2013 #1

True. It only looks good in the macro sense Populist_Prole Jul 2013 #3

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NAFTA was signed by our party. Like insurance mandates WE own it. nt Demo_Chris Jul 2013 #5