Reply #8: I wonder if Mexico's exporting more goods, or workers to us with NAFTA!!!

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NAFTA, etc. has allowed our corporations to export subsidized corn goods (with our taxpayer's farm subsidies to the companies) below cost to Mexico and other South American countries, putting many local farmers out of work who can't compete with the underpriced goods. They then go to work in maquilas (outsourcing factories south of the border) to get work, until those same companies drop their leases and move to Asia or other places where they can race to the bottom quicker for labor costs... Then those folks "export" themselves up here to get jobs!

This is why NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, etc. all need to be renegotiated NOW! Shame on you Obama! I wish you'd do something more to counterbalance the increasing disappointment I've felt with your decisions the last week!