Reply #15: It allows corporations to fire US workers and ship the factories

[Warpy]

to Mexico and Canada. It allows corporations to import goods that are more cheaply produced in Mexico and other South American countries than they are in the US. It does NOT allow human beings to shop in other countries for third world goods at third world prices, unless those people travel to those locations to buy those things. Even then, they'll have to declare them at the border and pay duties on many of them. It especially doesn't allow human beings to purchase their medications from other countries to avoid the price gouging in the US, although a lot of us do so in defiance of stupid laws.

The problem was first that it was written by and for corporations and against human beings; second, it allows corporations to challenge and overthrow many of the environmental and labor laws they find inconvenient (see: Chapter 11).

This country is at a crossroads. Either we'll continue to progress towards fascism and then feudalism, or we'll grab our country back. Renegotiating NAFTA may be the first step in the latter process.