Back in the early 1990s, the North
American Free Trade Agreement was one of the hottest political issues in
the country. When he was running for president in 1992, Bill Clinton
promised that NAFTA would result in an increase in the number of high
quality jobs
for Americans that it would reduce illegal immigration. Ross Perot
warned that just the opposite would happen. He warned that if NAFTA was
implemented there would be a “giant sucking sound”
as thousands of businesses and millions of jobs left this country.
Most Americans chose to believe Bill Clinton. Well, it is 20 years
later and it turns out that Perot was right and Clinton was dead wrong.
But now history is repeating itself, and most Americans don’t even
realize that it is happening. As you will read about at the end of this
article, Barack Obama has been negotiating a secret trade treaty that
is being called “NAFTA on steroids”, and if Congress adopts it we could
lose millions more good paying jobs. ***Read full article here***
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