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In reply to the discussion: NAFTA passed on Nov. 20, 1993, on the promise of jobs. Oddly enough . . . [View all]Johonny
(21,618 posts)It isn't like NAFTA magically went away in 2000. You simply cherry picked your data for the first 6 years of NAFTA. The economy had an increasing employment rate before its start. Look at your graph. The highest year to year positive slope was actually 1 year prior to the signing. The overall 20 year trend post NAFTA is rather negative. It is rather hard not to notice it. The employment rate overall has decreased in the past roughly 20 years! That's what your graph shows. Now you can argue the overall trend doesn't reflect cause and effect of NAFTA alone, but as most people state in this thread, the cherry picked zone doesn't either. This is just like climate deniers that cherry pick global temperatures from 1998 to 2010 and say look climate change is over. It is a weak argument you are making and more to the point one actually refuted by the data your represent. Going by employment rate post NAFTA... NAFTA looks like crap! There are, of course, real disciplined research into the real effects NAFTA had on the economy trends of the US, Canada, and Mexico. It is almost certainly better for any DUer to read those reports than pretend your cherry picked data means... anything at all. Sorry, but anyone supporting TPP based on your graph is being silly. Just like anyone supporting climate denial based on cherry picked data is being rather silly.