{"id":125,"date":"2006-03-14T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/03\/14\/the-fruits-of-nafta-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:11:16","slug":"the-fruits-of-nafta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/03\/14\/the-fruits-of-nafta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruits of NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a175'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">by Patrick J. Buchanan, March 10, 2006<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times\">&#8230;U.S.-Mexico<br \/>\ntrade calls to mind the trade relationship between Betsy Ross&#8217; America<br \/>\nand the England of the Industrial Revolution, with Mexico in the role<br \/>\nof England. Our exports to Mexico read like a ship&#8217;s manifest from<br \/>\nBangladesh.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times\">The<br \/>\nAmerican people were had. NAFTA was never a trade deal. NAFTA was<br \/>\nalways an enabling act &#x2013; to enable U.S. corporations to dump their<br \/>\nAmerican workers and move their factories to Mexico&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times\">When one considers who finances the Republican Party<\/font><font face=\"Palatino, Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times\">, funds its candidates,<br \/>\nand hires its former congressmen, senators and Cabinet officers at six-<br \/>\nand seven-figure retainers to lobby, it is understandable that the GOP<br \/>\nwent into the tank. But<br \/>\nwhy did the liberals, who paid the price of mandating all those<br \/>\nbenefits for American workers and imposing all those regulations on<br \/>\nU.S. corporations, go along? That&#8217;s the mystery. About NAFTA there is<br \/>\nno mystery. There never really was.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Patrick J. Buchanan, March 10, 2006 &#8230;U.S.-Mexico trade calls to mind the trade relationship between Betsy Ross&#8217; America and the England of the Industrial Revolution, with Mexico in the role of England. Our exports to Mexico read like a ship&#8217;s manifest from Bangladesh. The American people were had. NAFTA was never a trade deal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}