NAFTA Talks Resume
Mike Warner
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl ... leID=35276

August 16, 2007
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab met with trade representatives from Mexico and Canada this week to discuss expanding the flow of goods within the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. The meeting was a prelude to President George Bush meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, next week to discuss NAFTA.

According to the Susan Schwab, the senior trade officials are all in agreement that NAFTA is a success. A success for whom, I ask. Trade has increased by hundreds of millions of dollars between the three nations, but at the expense of whom. Millions of workers in the United States have lost their jobs and have had to take lower paying jobs as a result. Millions of Mexicans have been forced to work at lower wages. American corporations have shut down factories in the United States and moved to Mexico. After ruining local U.S. economies by the move, these corporations then refused to pay Mexicans a wage that would give a decent standard of living. They further denigrated the Mexican ecology by not following safe environmental standards.

I am sure the members of the United States Chamber of Commerce are deliriously happy filling there bank accounts with all the cash they are making. But what about the workers? Are American and Mexican workers happy with their lowered standard of living thanks to NAFTA? President Clinton left office nearly broke, now Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the richest politicians in the world. Think the members of the United States Chamber of Commerce didn't pay them for services rendered?

What about the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and all the other unions that supported Bill and Hillary Clinton, what do they think of NAFTA? Are they supporting their members and fighting to end NAFTA? Or are the union leaders so corrupt, that all they can see is the possibility of new members thanks to NAFTA and illegal immigration?

The North American Free Trade agreement has worked towards expanding the gap between the rich and poor in North America, period. Americans and Mexicans need to wake up and realize that we will soon be nothing more than indentured servants, slaves, if this travesty continues.