Thom Hartmann asks: Can NAFTA be repealed?

This is taken from Thom's daily email.


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Can NAFTA be Repealed?

Four congressmen have submitted to Congress a bill to repeal NAFTA Free trade appears to be losing its base of support on Capitol Hill. Six anti-free-trade Democrats - Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and Jim Webb of Virginia, plus Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont - captured Senate seats formerly held by free traders. According to one analysis by Global Trade Watch, no fewer than seven Senate and 30 House seats flipped from pro- to anti-free trade in the 2006 election. This trend continued in 2008. Thirty-six new free-trade opponents were elected to the House and seven new free-trade opponents were elected to the Senate in the last election. Now it's become so apparent to everybody that the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Friedman flat-earth free-trade insanity has destroyed America's middle class that - almost the exact opposite of twenty years ago - no member of congress is highlighting a free trade stance in their campaign efforts. One day soon we may see the insanity of NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and the transnational corporate takeover of worldwide economies come to an end. The return of the protectionism that built American industry over the past 200 years may well also bring back our jobs and bring back our middle class!

I am sure you need to give something like 6 months notice but getting rid of NAFTA would be easy if only the people in charge would wake up and do it

I blame the unemployment situation on this more than anything. A month ago I remember seeing where the job losses came from in the past decade. Everything else was under 1 million but when they got to manufacturing it was 5.7 million and to look at their chart, 5.7 million was more than all the others combined.

with NAFTA what you'll hear is the sucking sound of jobs being lost (or something like that). i was in mexico at the time and NAFTA was very unpopular even there.
this and jobs going to china have done more to bankrupt the country and wreak havoc on workers than anything else.
i can't forgive gore shilling for this nonsense and why i can't take him seriously on global warming. he's a lousy "spokesperson".