The NAFTA treaty was a bad idea from it’s conception, I’ve been saying it since Clinton first introduced it. Once it was signed the country watched manufacturing plants jump ship left and right, killing jobs and crushing pay scales with more and more people out of work willing to take lower pay. The numbers are in and it’s obviously not good:

…..the U.S. enjoyed a $1.7 billion dollar trade surplus with Mexico in 1993, before NAFTA, compared to a $47.5 billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico in 2009.

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