Reply #12: Like you said earlier... [View All]

If this was a new law or an old law being changed, pass the damn thing unanimously and stick in Bush's ear. But it is part of a treaty with another country and I, for one, think that treaties need to be respected until they are renegotiated or withdrawn from. Yes, I know that George doesn't share my view of treaties, but he is hardly my role model.



Well since NAFTA is just a law, there is nothing to stop our Congress from voting to change any or all portions of that law with a simple majority vote. (NAFTA is not a treaty as it was never ratified by 2/3 vote of the Senate, and knowing that it was not possible to get a 2/3 vote in the Senate it was pushed through by Bill Clinton as an ordinary law getting a majority in both houses)


So why won't they do it? Because a large majority of Republicans, and evidently more than a few Dems, want it that way.

I would like to see it come to a vote so that we would know who supports NAFTA. For a long time now, many supposed supporters of US labor unions and workers have said that they would not have voted for NAFTA if they knew the whole story.

Well why aren't they undoing their "mistake" ?