NAFTA (click here) affected U.S. workers in four principal ways. First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as production moved to Mexico. Most of these losses came in California, Texas, Michigan, and other states where manufacturing is concentrated. To be sure, there were some job gains along the border in service and retail sectors resulting from increased trucking activity, but these gains are small in relation to the loses, and are in lower paying occupations. The vast majority of workers who lost jobs from NAFTA suffered a permanent loss of income...
Second, NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits....
Third, the destructive effect of NAFTA on the Mexican agricultural and small business sectors dislocated several million Mexican workers and their families, and was a major cause in the dramatic increase in undocumented workers flowing into the U.S. labor market....
Fourth, and ultimately most important, NAFTA was the template for rules of the emerging global economy, in which the benefits would flow to capital and the costs to labor. The U.S. governing class—in alliance with the financial elites of its trading partners—applied NAFTA’s principles to the World Trade Organization, to the policies of the World Bank and IMF, and to the deal under which employers of China’s huge supply of low-wage workers were allowed access to U.S. markets in exchange for allowing American multinational corporations the right to invest there....
After NAFTA the loss of good paying jobs in the USA was palpable. That level of impact is not soon forgotten and the dialogue is still alive today. Who listened? Who listened to the people? Why is Donald Trump President of the USA, because, NO ONE gave a damn except to manipulate their votes. The American people are damn tired of it and the TPP is a very strong reminder.
The Dreamers are an unrealistic focus of the problem. The job markets in the USA are already closing in ways that would offer them a real place in the USA. The Dreamers are Americans and innocent victims of inappropriate anger and racism.
The fact of the matter is Donald Trump was a successful power player that gave the people what they wanted, but, has provided corruption in different ways including the new tax law. The Wall Street anger in the USA was used once again to gain power by a billionaire that further corrupted the American landscape and dumped trillions of corruption on the heads of generations to come. Additionally, the Trump White House is a failure and has been unable to harness real talent so much as angry Republican hacks.
Now, the TPP is an amended version of the original and the USA is not a part of it. Make no mistake, the people wanted it exactly this way. When the TPP goes into effect, the American people will breath a sigh of relief they are not a part of it. Americans wish everyone within the borders of the TPP well. When the oppressed peoples lose their economies to others without one, there will be better jobs waiting empty for them in the USA. Perhaps the TPP will result in the revitalization of Ellis Island.
The Dreamers are an unrealistic focus of the problem. The job markets in the USA are already closing in ways that would offer them a real place in the USA. The Dreamers are Americans and innocent victims of inappropriate anger and racism.
The fact of the matter is Donald Trump was a successful power player that gave the people what they wanted, but, has provided corruption in different ways including the new tax law. The Wall Street anger in the USA was used once again to gain power by a billionaire that further corrupted the American landscape and dumped trillions of corruption on the heads of generations to come. Additionally, the Trump White House is a failure and has been unable to harness real talent so much as angry Republican hacks.
Now, the TPP is an amended version of the original and the USA is not a part of it. Make no mistake, the people wanted it exactly this way. When the TPP goes into effect, the American people will breath a sigh of relief they are not a part of it. Americans wish everyone within the borders of the TPP well. When the oppressed peoples lose their economies to others without one, there will be better jobs waiting empty for them in the USA. Perhaps the TPP will result in the revitalization of Ellis Island.
8 March 2018
Oliver Hailes led an 80 person strong protest today (click here) against the new agreement, which is due to be signed in Chile tomorrow.
He also presented Green MP Golriz Ghahraman with a petition signed by 5000 people, calling for the government to pull out of the agreement.
Both Labour and New Zealand First had backtracked on their pre-election stance, Mr Hailes said.
"They are laying the foundations for exactly the same deal they said was so terrible for New Zealand; they said was so anti-democratic," he said.
"It's funny how now they're in government they've changed their tune."
Trade minister David Parker had "bamboozled" voters by failing to honestly discuss what the TPP would mean for New Zealand, Mr Hailes said.
"He has made such a big deal about the 22 [items suspended from the original agreement] as if they're absolute carve-outs, whereas they're not....
