What is NAFTA and was it a good thing or a bad thing?

Answer 1

North American Free Trade Agreement, it would depend on what side of it that you are to whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. I think in America it has cost to many good paying jobs to be a good thing. But in Mexico they probably think it is great as that is where the jobs have gone, only they are not good paying jobs anymore.

Answer 2

North American Free Trade Agreement... Depends on who you ask.... It gets my vote for a bad thing, It was supposed to create all these jobs but I think at best it has broke even and while some of the jobs created are high paying what do you say to the working force workers who lost good paying jobs? The rich become richer and the class of working poor is growing like Vegas..... It needs to be tweaked with...

Answer 3

North American Free Trade Agreement. Baaaad!

Ross Perot once said, "That giant sucking sound you hear is the sound of US jobs going across the borders." It's the only time he was right!

NAFTA has been a bust.
It has cost the US thousands and thousands of jobs.
I have not seen any price reductions on products.
Next we'll have the North American equivalent of the Euro.

Answer 4

North American Free Trade Agreement.

Good thing.

It reduced tariffs on cross-border trade. I.e., it was a tax cut.

Net, free trade has created more jobs than it has lost. The jobs created are actually the very "high paying, white collar" jobs that people say they want created. If some Mexican peasant is capable of doing your job though, you're not likely qualified to get a high paying, white collar job, and you're SOL. Too bad but I don't think in a society that gives you free education through 12th grade you are entitled to earn a living using the skillset of a 6th grader. If you want to gripe, gripe but gripe honestly - say "I should be re-trained to do more complex work" rather than "the only jobs around are Wal-Mart jobs" because that's just not true. Most of the job creation is "service sector" but that's 80% of GDP - it's engineering, software programming, nursing, accounting and finance, law - - - only 20% of the job creation in the service sector is retail, foodservice and hospitality and that includes management - - - - but if you used to pull imperfect items off a conveyor belt for a living, those are the jobs you're going to get. The other jobs are there - you just need the qualifications for them. If you think you're entitled to retraining, argue that, but don't say the jobs aren't there. They are.

Answer 5

A trade agreement among the North American countries designed to keep labor cheap, degrade environmental standards, and maximize corporate profits.

Here in the US we have the best government money can buy!

Answer 6

Bad thing....one step closer to a one-world government.

Answer 7

Probably an equal amount of both.

Answer 8

Good, because it encourages Illegal Aliens to come to America. ;-)