who really pushed nafta

[luckyleftyme2]

i found this tidbit in Bush seniors ressume:
NAFTA
Main article: North American Free Trade Agreement

From left to right: (standing) President Carlos Salinas, President Bush, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; (seated) Jaime Serra Puche, Carla Hills, and Michael Wilson at the NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, October 1992Bush's administration, along with the Progressive Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would eliminate the majority of tariffs on products traded among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, to encourage trade amongst the countries.<58> The treaty also restricts patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and outlines the removal of investment restrictions among the three countries.<58>

The agreement came under heavy scrutiny amongst mainly Democrats, who charged that NAFTA resulted in a loss of US jobs.<11> NAFTA also contained no provisions for labor rights;<59> according to the Bush administration, the trade agreement would generate economic resources necessary to enable Mexico's government to overcome problems of funding and enforcement of its labor laws.<59> Bush needed a renewal of negotiating authority to move forward with the NAFTA trade talks. Such authority would enable the president to negotiate a trade accord that would be submitted to Congress for a vote, thereby avoiding a situation in which the president would be required to renegotiate with trading partners those parts of an agreement that Congress wished to change.<59> While initial signing was possible during his term, negotiations made slow, but steady, progress. President Clinton would go on to make the passage of NAFTA a priority for his administration, despite its conservative and Republican roots — with the addition of two side agreements — to achieve its passage in 1993.<60>

The treaty has since been defended as well as criticized further. The American economy has grown 54 percent since the adoption of NAFTA in 1993, with 25 million new jobs created; this was seen by some as evidence of NAFTA being beneficial to the US.<61> With talk in early 2008 regarding a possible American withdrawal from the treaty, Carlos M. Gutierrez, current United States Secretary of Commerce, writes, "Quitting NAFTA would send economic shock waves throughout the world, and the damage would start here at home."<61> But John J. Sweeney of The Boston Globe argues that "the US trade deficit with Canada and Mexico ballooned to 12 times its pre-NAFTA size, reaching $111 billion in 2004."<62>

[mrcheerful]

1. That was the problem NAFTA was a republicon scam that Clinton knew was going to be

passed sooner or later so he tried to change key point's in the bill to prevent the out sourcing of American industry. The problem was that when the cons took all 3 government branches they were then able to remove Clintons safe guards, such as the provision that before NAFTA could be fully implemented all countries that signed onto NAFTA had to have near same wages as the United States levels.

[OHdem10]

2. Much of the Joblessness we are experiencing is resulf of poorly

managed Trade Policy.

After the 2006 election, Senator Schumer held a hearing on the
the state of the economy. Banking Subcommitte, Senate.

Witnesses appearing before the committee. Larry Sommers, Robert Rubin
Alan Blinder and a professor from U of Chicago.

Note the Witnesses: They gave a very grim outlook for our country
and the state of things. Forty Million Job Dislocations. These
dislocations will affect all levels of our society including
Professionals.

Reason for the Drastic Decline as stated by these witnesses.
Our Trade Policies have not worked out as envisioned. Some technological
advances also.

This was 2006. We had been hemorrhaging jobs toward the end
of the Bush Administration.

This was shown in its entirety on C-SPAN, but not one other
Media Outlet has reported on it or spent time to give it focus.

Obama did in his last speech on the economy he briefly mentioned
Trade.

I think this is what creates mistrust in the country. Everyone
is acting as if the Financial Crisis created all this joblessness.
The American People and a lot of Teabaggers hate Nafta. They see
this as contributing to the decline in America.

Our foreign policy and our debt to China make it dicey .

This has to be considered if we are ever going to correct this
joblessness. Me thinks this is why we keep getting predictions
it will be 2014 or so before we really begin to see jobs start
to come back in a serious way.

You cannot continuously out source our jobs and expect to
improve the job levels.

[KT2000]

3. this is what I have been saying

for years and no one believed me - they thought it was Clinton.
Altantic had a terrific article about bush sr's New World Order back when GATT was passed and it explained bush's NAFTA that was in the works.