Bill Clinton and Republicans promised NAFTA would create jobs..

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39. Why do you think there is a time limit on the benefits? The "bust" was due to

a conservative republican president and his policies from 2001 on. If you cut taxes for the rich, deregulate corporations and shred the safety net that is going to decimate middle class wages no matter what the benefits of trade.

And now our wages are not much better than in 1995.

And in 1993 our wages were no better than they were in 1973. Was that NAFTA's fault, too?

Worst of all, jobs in the US today are more often service jobs than they were before NAFTA.

True but since manufacturing employment in the US has been declining since the mid-1950's (and in every developed country in the world), I'm not sure how you can blame that on NAFTA.

Do we want maybe 10 years of boom followed by a bust?

Of course not. The "boom" in other developed countries has not been followed by a bust. I contend that our "bust" was caused by conservative republican policies after 2001. To contend that the "bust" was a natural phenomenon after the "boom" let's Bush dodge responsibility for that "bust". I give him no such pass.