Has Obama Forgotten NAFTA Promise?
Friday July 10, 2009
NAFTA is the world's largest free trade area. The agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico links 439 million people and produces $15.3 trillion in goods and services annually. Some of the advantages include a tripling of trade between the NAFTA signatories from $297 billion in 1993 to $903 billion in 2007. Critics say that the agreement has led to a net loss of 879,000 jobs in the U.S., and a decline in labor protection and degradation of the environment in Mexico.
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Obama is fixing the following problems all at the same time:
- Healthcare (instead of Insurance)
- Auto
- Financial
- Afganistan
- Iraq
- FDA
- Immigration
- Recession
Meanwhile, he has actually has time to go to Ghana and American summit instead of helping bring people together – his own Democrats at that. Since he has the time, he should fix NAFTA as well.
I am surprised the media did not call him out on “..country that invented the automobile..” during State-of-the-Union and on being disappointed on not having a “button to press that would fix Washington”.
Clear sign’s of a person who has not seen or operated in a large organization, let alone lead it.
Hi Madwesh,
Excellent point. I should have used one of your lines for my article title
“If Obama Has Time for Ghana, He Has Time for NAFTA.”
Kimberly