Reply #32: Backing up from an abject failure is.

[denverbill]

I've read stories about the maquiladora's. About a Ford(?) plant where the workers who worked there weren't even paid enough to afford housing. Most lived in squalid ramshackle lean-tos.

I would have considerably less objection to NAFTA if I really felt it was helping ordinary Mexicans. If I found that a Mexican was making even 1/2 as much as a Detroit autoworker, that would be one thing, but for the most part, they were making about 1/10th as much. But the fact is that without comparable wages and benefits American workers can't compete, and Mexican workers, with little or no rights to unionize, have no way to seek better compensation.

Jobs are fleeing this country faster than anytime in our history, and these are jobs that are not coming back without a fundamental change in our laws. The US was doing perfectly fine economically before NAFTA.