Trade Expert: Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped

[PowerToThePeople]

The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations enacted in the public interest.

But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Back in 1986, when the leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico began talks on a regional trade deal that eight years later would culminate in the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they sold the pact to the public as an economic win-win for all parties involved.

On signing the treaty in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton said, “NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t support this agreement.” He promised that NAFTA would result in “an export boom to Mexico,” and claimed that such trade deals “transcend ideology” because support for them “is so uniform that it unites people in both parties.”

Twenty years later, we can test how those claims panned out in the real world. And Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch did just that, releasing a comprehensive study of NAFTA’s impacts.

(more at link)

http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/09/fool-me-once-20-years-of-nafta-show-why-the-trans-pacific-partnership-must-be-stopped/

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R. Thanks for posting. nt

[wildbilln864]

2. k & r! nt

[liberal_at_heart]

3. K&R

[We People]

4. Thanks, and K&R

Anything by Moyers bears repeating and sharing~

[jsr]

5. Recommend

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Where are the 2-3 resident DU Free Trade worshipers?

I'm sure they will be here soon with their BS and propaganda points they have memorized over the years. They will never let it go no matter how many millions of Americans get the shaft while the mega-rich CEOs, Wall Street crooks, giant corps, and Washington politicians make out like bandits.

[Enthusiast]

7. They just hope any discussions of the TPP and comparisons to NAFTA

will just go away. The Christie outrage is serving to do that.

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch.....nt

[octoberlib]

9. Excellent interview with Lori Wallach

She highlights how NAFTA 's been devastating for Mexico as well as the US

[historylovr]

10. K & R

[KoKo]

11. Recommend!