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Hoyt

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18. Maybe our standard of living got ahead of itself.

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 10:12 PM

Dec 2014

I think we need to tax corporations considerably that outsource jobs considerably more. But world is changing and we better figure out how to adapt. We aren't returning to the 1950s and 1960s. We can get angry, blame NAFTA, whatever, but it won't change a thing.

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21 years ago tomorrow Bush Sr signed the republican negotiated and promoted NAFTA [View all] Elwood P Dowd Dec 2014 OP

Truthfully, I doubt we'd be much better off had NAFTA not been enacted. Hoyt Dec 2014 #1

It is a symptom not the cause of our economic issues. former9thward Dec 2014 #2

NAFTA was the beginning of millions of jobs being exported. Add it's effects to GATT/WTO, Elwood P Dowd Dec 2014 #3

Do you have a link supporting your claims that NAFTA cost millions of jobs? Hoyt Dec 2014 #8

I posted that NAFTA was just the beginning of millions of lost jobs. Elwood P Dowd Dec 2014 #9

Outsourcing would have happened without NAFTA, but I don't think Hoyt Dec 2014 #10

Bullshit & talking points right out of the republican playbook. Elwood P Dowd Dec 2014 #11

Maybe our standard of living got ahead of itself. Hoyt Dec 2014 #18

Manufacturing jobs have been declining since the 1960's in the US and since the 1970's in every pampango Dec 2014 #15

Nobody wants to hear the truth. Good post. Hoyt Dec 2014 #19

No, NAFTA was pretty much in the middle of millions of jobs being exported Recursion Dec 2014 #20

Truthfully, you're a TPP defender Union Scribe Dec 2014 #4

Not a defender, but like Krugman, not freaking out. Hoyt Dec 2014 #6

Huh? NAFTA destroyed us. JaneyVee Dec 2014 #5

No it did not. Hoyt Dec 2014 #7

stick to gun threads Union Scribe Dec 2014 #14

No. Wages went up. Recursion Dec 2014 #21

Free trade is bullshit libertarian/GOP love for money only. Rex Dec 2014 #12

I'm in Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #13

Done. lonestarnot Dec 2014 #16

Bill Clinton was president 21 years ago. n/t cloudbase Dec 2014 #17