Dave Simpson We could all still be living in our big bubble. What caused it to start shrinking? It probably started with the 1965 immigration act, but when we really began to notice it was in 1992, when George Bush senior signed the NAFTA treaty with Mexico, and Bill Clinton turned his back on the unions and pushed NAFTA through Congress with pork barrel projects. NAFTA allowed American companies to move to Mexico and cost one million American workers their jobs. It also cost Mexican farmers their jobs because they couldn't compete with United States government subsidized farmers, that is when the migration of Mexicans to the United States began. Twenty dollars an hour plus benefits was too much for American companies, so they moved to Mexico where the salary was two dollars an hour and no benefits, and they could pollute the environment with no fines. This was fine for several years, and then someone in management found out they could move to China and pay thirty five cents an hour. In the meantime other companies were outsourcing their work to India and eliminating American jobs, and getting a tax break from the American government for moving these jobs overseas. Now the question is, why did George Bush senior decide we needed NAFTA, and why would Clinton go along with it? NAFTA was a failure for American and Mexican workers, only the companies benefited from NAFTA. Now Bush has pushed through CAFTA, that wouldn't have pbutted with out fifteen votes from democrats. This will not benefit the American workers, only the American companies. Ford has already started looking at one of the Central American countries, and has plans to build a plant there, where the yearly salary is two thousand dollars. And you idiots blame unions for our problems? Greed is the problem, and I'm not talking about forty dollars and hour greed.
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