Posted by M Moline Fan on April 11, 2008 at 17:37:53 from (209.143.60.173):
In Reply to: Re: OT - Economics posted by How did NAFTA give on April 11, 2008 at 17:04:32:
I just googled NAFTA and checked in the first block, Wikipedia. There's endless commentaries to read. In this block I read that net manufacturing employment declined by 3,654,000 between 1994 (when it was implemented) and 2007 in the U.S. I've heard estimates that Ohio (where I live) lost a quarter million manufacturing jobs in that time.
How? Because countries like China don't have restrictions that our domestic industries do- like pollution or worker safety. Doesn't the Chinese govn't subsidize their industries- such as with the value of their currency? (this may be changing with our cheap dollar) Their industries don't have to pay for workers' health insurance and wages are dirt cheap. Here we have a host of infrastructure (property taxes and countless others) to support. How can we compete? What do they buy from us? (only raw materials to make more things to sell us) The end result with China alone is we have a trade deficit with them around $1 trillion.
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