As I mentioned in my last post, Obama and Clinton have recently been battling it out to see who can more completely disavow any prior support for NAFTA. Despite the fact most economists (and a prior incarnation of Hillary Clinton) agree that NAFTA has had a positive impact on America (per FactCheck.org), the Democratic candidates are scrambling over each other to proclaim their willingness to withdraw from the treaty.On that topic, I just had to share this hilarious quote from former Texas senator Phil Gramm: "If we can’t compete with Canada, who can we compete with?" He continued, "Are these people proposing that we go build a wall around America and hide under a rock somewhere?"
Gramm was out stumping for McCain, who had this to say on the subject:
"I want to tell our Canadian friends, I want to tell our friends in Mexico and other trading partners around the world that I will negotiate and conclude free trade agreements and I will not, I will not, after entering into solemn agreements, go and say that I will abrogate those agreements."
I may not have Obama or Clinton's legal skills, but standing by your commitments makes sense to me.
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Well, to be fair (which is hard to be, given the annoying and bizarre political statements regarding NAFTA slung around these days), NAFTA can be realistically criticized as being flawed, especially with the way it handles agriculture.
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