Was NAFTA one of the biggest mistakes the US made?

Question

Isn't it possible for the US to be an independent producer and self-sufficient?

Answer 1

Sticking your head in the sand isn't going to improve you situation, so becoming independent and self sufficient isn't the answer. Not only does NAFTA benefit the US it also benefits the other countries that are part of it.

Answer 2

NAFTA was the biggest pile of bull forced upon the Canadian people but you do not see us exactly sneaking across borders to live in the U.S.

We are too busy trying to learn to exist under the damages NAFTA has done to our economy, our medical system, and almost everything else your administration disapproved of.

We, too, lost zillions of jobs. Free Trade allowed the Corporate Masters to move all those jobs from both countries to places where slave labour is much more profitable to their stockholders.
First many moved south to the U.S. then, like the rest, abandoned America for distant countries.

No one, in this world, can be independent and self sufficient. Not when NAFTA is part of the plan of these men to bring the world under one government.

Beware the sentiments .. One world! One people!

Answer 3

Nafta was a huge mistake and a more or less invitation for more illegals to enter the US. It was a fear at the time that it would open our borders to invasion and guess what, it happened! Governments can predict the future, but even if it happens they won't learn from that knowledge. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results!

Answer 4

NAFTA should have never been passed without a provision for a Mexican Minimum wage. I wrote Clinton a letter stating this in 1995. He informed me that while he agreed with me that sometimes in politics you have to give a prid pro quo in order to get something that you believe as equally if not more important accomplished. We had given the Mexican Government a substantial loan from our own treasury, not the world bank or the Chase group as is so often done on the world economic level. Mexico was able to repay that loan with interest before 1998 this with several other economic factors implemented by our only Rhodes Scholar President helped to bring our country out of the huge multi-trillion dollar deficit caused by 12 years of republican defense spending to an actual surplus of several billion.
He felt that it out weighed the negative aspects of such an agreement. And that Gore would have been able to fix the Problems with Mexico in the future. Unfortunately that did not come to pass, and the powers that be were able to exploit the faults in the agreement to further outsource American jobs and exploit an illegal alien workforce.
The best laid plans of mice and men.

Answer 5

The election and re-election of George W Bush is, by far, THE BIGGEST MISTAKE the US ever made. Everything else is buried and hidden in the shadows of that terrible and most stupid of all political decisons.

NAFTA was probably a mistake. But I'd rather have 1000 NAFTA's than even 1 day of a Bush presidency. Wouldnt you?

Answer 6

I am sorry that there are so many wrong answers, here, due to misinformation. While it is true that we lost many manufacturing jobs in the U.S., our net number of jobs have increased. We now have one of the lowest unemployment numbers in our nation's history.

As for being an independent producer / consumer, yes, we could be. However, we would have to retrain American thinking. We buy foreign goods because they appeal to us through low prices and high quality. Because of our wealth, Americans want a larger variety of "stuff" and are willing to strengthen the economies of our enemies rather than do without those things. Its a shame, but none the less true.

Remember, there is NO LAW that REQUIRES Americans to buy foreign goods nor to deal with companies who outsource beyond our shores. Its a choice we make, good or bad.

Answer 7

Yes! and Yes!
Now go check out what's next - the NAFTA Super Highway, connecting Canada and Mexico straight through th middle of the U.S. !!!!!!
(Probably happening this year, right under our noses - with little fanfare and no press!!!)

Answer 8

Yes it was the biggest mistake. And yes we can, it just takes the American consumer to buy American made products. But due to thier cheapness, they don't. Sure not EVERYTHING is american made but the majority of it is. But the majority of products purchased are not

Answer 9

Yes, NAFTA was a huge mistake.

Answer 10

Clinton Sucked. This was one of his finer moments.

Put around 35 thousand americans out of work along the border.

Still wondering why people liked him. I guess they wanted convicted child molesters pardoned....