Reply #20: Come on! Please at least try to think things through before posting. [View All]

You are so far off base it's hard to believe. Nearly everything you say is incorrect.

Jobs were going elsewhere long before and in spite of NAFTA. NAFTA meant many of them went to Mexico rather than Asia. It also meant Mexico was required to import more from the US in exchange.

NAFTA and the WTO could "help the workers or common folk" if we liberals got off our collective asses and pushed over time for ever increasing standards as part of those agreements. That's how all law has developed over time. First the general legal structure is established. Then, over time, more and more specifics are added to tighten the effect. Our job is to work with it, not to bitch and moan about it.

Finally, the UN is precisely NOT the place to push for labor reforms in other countries. Why? Because it would have not teeth. Think about it! The way to get such reforms is to get them incorporated into NAFTA and WTO where there are built in, enforceable, costly sanctions for violations.

To understand these things, you need to know more than just the terminology "University of Chicago" and "Austrian Economics." You need to stop knee-jerking your conclusions and think things through. I'm sick and tired of hearing liberals bitch about these agreements. It's a way for them to wash their hands of the hard work of understanding them and working to improve them.