NAFTA

The full quote by Porfirio Díaz is: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” Mexican President Díaz (1876-1880 and 1884-1911) got it at least half right. Mexico has suffered in the shadow of the Colossus of the North, but Mexico is not poor. Mexico is rich in many ways, yet it also has been impoverished. And Mexico has been greatly underappreciated by North Americans.

The full quote by Porfirio Díaz is: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” Mexican President Díaz (1876-1880 and 1884-1911) got it at least half right. Mexico has suffered in the shadow of the Colossus of the North, but Mexico is not poor. Mexico is rich in many ways, yet it also has been impoverished. And Mexico has been greatly underappreciated by North Americans.

Donald Trump on NAFTA. That was then; this is now.by Gaius PubliusNAFTA 2.0 is on the horizon, and I wanted to offer an update courtesy of Public Citizen's Trade Watch, the best go-to source on trade agreement issues. Their infographic is here. Click here for their full analysis.

A true free trade deal would simply reduce or eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers. It would not dictate wages and labor standards, or require inter-governmental cooperation on environmental standards and monetary policy.

Since the Clinton era, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created, global trade has been written by and for big corporations at the expense of people’s health, worker’s rights and the environment. Trump Trade – through the renegotiation of NAFTA – continues that approach.

Environmentalists on Monday slammed President Donald Trump’s replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter warning that it “would enshrine and globalize Trump’s deregulatory zealotry into a trade pact that would outlast the administration and imperil future efforts to protect consumers, workers, and the environment.”

Transcript: PressTV Skype Interview with Peter Koenig
31 August 2018
Introduction
U-S President, Donald Trump, has threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.

I found it condescending-- and, honestly, kind of offensive-- that right after the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, referred to Señor Trumpanzee as "President Trump," Señor T called him "Enrique." And then there was the way Trump smirked like a drooling moron when Peña Nieto referred to the trade agreement as "NAFTA." Anyway, watch the idiot in action; it's worthwhile and will give you a real window into his tiny ADT-mind. Everything about Trump is greasy and, beyond that, always grotesquely self-serving. "My farmers"...

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