NAFTA passed on Nov. 20, 1993, on the promise of jobs. Oddly enough . . .

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91. It's not unlikely. It's a fact.

NAFTA benefitted the elites in all three countries and screwed the workers in all three countries. Corporate driven trade rules are no different than corporate driven tax rules or corporate driven environmental rules == and they yield the same result. The fact that US companies used the threat of "moving to Mexico" to thwart organizing drives and force workers to take pay and benefit cuts is no accident. It was by design. It's no coincidence that inequality and union density in all three countries has worsened since NAFTA while wages have stagnated and poverty rates have grown.

I find it bizarre that so many progressives see exactly what the corporations are doing to rig our economy when it comes to paying no taxes, trying to undo Dodd-Frank, screwing college students, underfunding infrastructure, etc. But pretend those same corporate motives are entirely benign when it comes to the desire to make more shoes in Vietnam and sell them to more Americans who can't afford to shop anywhere but large discount stores that pay poverty wages.