At the height of his primary-season contest against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Obama said the United States should use the “hammer” of threatening to withdraw from NAFTA if Canada and Mexico did not agree to change the pact. To that I wrote that there would be no renegotiation of NAFTA. I said that it was a primary promise that would go nowhere. Damn! I do so enjoy being a seer!
Pres. Obama wants to work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to strengthen the North American Free Trade Agreement without renegotiating it, his top trade envoy said.
Obama promised last year to add “enforceable” labor and environmental provisions to the core of the text agreement and change investment provisions that critics say give business too much leeway to flout government regulations.
“The three leaders are all of the mind that we should look for ways to strengthen NAFTA,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Monday. “I think they can be addressed without reopening the agreement.”
Obama pledged during the presidential election campaign that he would use the threat of opting out of NAFTA to force the Canadians and Mexicans to accept new standards for labor and the environment.
The partial reform miscalled free trade, which consists in the mere abolition of protection — the mere substitution of a revenue tariff for a protective tariff — cannot help the laboring classes, because it does not touch the fundamental cause of that unjust and unequal distribution which, as we see today, makes “labour a drug and population a nuisance” in the midst of such a plethora of wealth that we talk of over-production. True free trade, on the contrary, leads not only to the largest production of wealth, but to the fairest distribution. It is the easy and obvious way of bringing about that change by which alone justice in distribution can be secured, and the great inventions and discoveries which the human mind is now grasping can be converted into agencies for the elevation of society from its very foundations.
Agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, etc are not promoting free trade. They are however, destroying the manufacturing sector in the US. It did however promote the spread of globalization which in turn out sourced thousands of American jobs to overseas locations.
I have to make it public. It’s suppose to be secret, however most people in Austin, Tx knows about it. The police department has machine that can read your mind. A machine that can read someone’s mind will be used to violate EVERYONE’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!! It can also change the way you feel. Sexual impulses, anger, and paranoia are all feelings they can induce to you at their fingertips. This means it can cause a girl or boy to feel sexual, and get raped thinking they wanted to. Its like a drug. This is just one of the many crimes they commit with this machine RIGHT NOW!!!! They are using it right now to spy on their citizens RIGHT NOW!!! People will be spied on in there homes, without a warrant. (this means someone will be able to watch you during sex without your knowledge.) There are a lot of people all over the United States knowing about this machine. The police department is able to use it to spy on people in their own home. During interrogation they keep a person dazed, confused and not sound of mind to cohersed them into making certain statements. This is a violation of these people’s constitutional rights. Start thinking about how the government has given the police department a weapon to commit not only one of the biggest civil and constitutional rights violations of all time, but to commit war crimes such as rape, brainwashing, and toturing people without the victim’s knowledge. I know it is hard to believe, however if you happen to know someone in the police department who cares for you enough, just ask if they have a machine that can read and control people’s mind. After that, I would also like people to think about how we are able to get the government to stop letting the police department violate the people’s civil and constitutional rights, and committing war crimes against there own citizens. Major media companies have knowledge of this, but are not willing to broadcast it. People need to find out and talk about this issue.