What Carrier employees in Mexico can buy with $3 hourly wage

[Donkees]

[bulloney]

1. We're over 20 years removed from the passage of NAFTA. Mexico exports 85% of the cars it makes.

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The bill of goods they tried to sell us with NAFTA was that it would create a consumer class in Mexico for U.S. exports. More than half of what the U.S. "exports" to Mexico is intrafirm. In other words, it's companies like GM and Ford moving product from one of its U.S. plants to another one of its plants in Mexico.

NAFTA has not created a consumer market in Mexico. It was a sham from the get-go and some of us could see it then.

NAFTA is doing what it was designed to do and that is to enable trans-national corporations to move capital, labor and product more easily among the NAFTA nations and pit the countries against each other with their wage scales, regulations and currencies.

So, pardon us if we act skeptical about the TPP, given the track record with NAFTA, CAFTA WTO and other trade agreements.

[Donkees]

2. + Cars made in Mexico = long list of recalls