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NAFTA VERDICT UNDENIABLE
JOBS ELIMINATED ON PURPOSE

By: SARTRE

In a quintessential cover story in the American Conservative -
Death of Manufacturing - Pat Buchanan exposes the fraud of Free Trade.
This is a must read, especially for those Libertarians who cling to the
abstract notion that intellectual possibilities are viable and practical
in the real world. Notwithstanding their fantasies, self interest and
national economic independence is the supreme basis for economic policy
that benefits citizens. Those who strive to generate profit upon unholy
alliances are at best, befuddled accessories or worse case, greedy
traitors.



As the saying goes the devil is in the details. The score card is the
trade deficit. The burden is carried by those who are unemployed. And
the final casualty is the autonomy of the nations economy.

Is economic primacy important to you and your countrymen? A Free Trade
Policy has regard only for the business venture. National concerns and
the best long term interests of the average American has no stature in a
game of systematic dismantling of the self sufficiency.

The Buchanan thesis rest upon the worth of maintaining America as a free
society. It's easy to be deluded into thinking that freedom is enhanced
with the vast array of consumer items offered for sale at your local
discount outlet. Nevertheless, cheap prices from foreign producers only
feeds the trade shortfall. How backward does one need to be to avoid the
inevitable? When production leaves for off shore havens based upon a
playing field that is rigged to serve only the monopolists, how free can
we remain as a people?

The conclusion from this essay is clear: "Free trade is a bright shining
lie. Free trade is the Trojan Horse of world government. Free trade is
the murderer of manufacturing and the primrose path to the loss of
national sovereignty and the end of our independence."

The NAFTA swindle is a transparent scam. Here is Pat's summary, the only
one you need to remember: " NAFTA has helped to convert California into
Mexifornia and the Golden State into a Third-World country. Ten years
after its passage, Mexico's leading export continues to be Mexicans."

In the end, the social cost from a conscious dissemblance of
manufacturing within our own borders means the loss of high scale
livable wage jobs. Let's be honest and admit the truth. Americans no
longer have a work ethic of previous generations nor does the average
worker have the stomach to labor for subsistent level pay. However, that
is only a consequence of the larger issue. The political decisions to
vacate domestic manufacturing from our own people is analogous to
running a closed shop that benefits only venture monopolists,
international bankers, global money launders, stateless managers and
governmental hacks.

The flight out of California illustrates this civic price being paid,
but this same syndrome also applies to other former bastions of
industry. According to the Census Bureau Report - State by State
Migration Flows: 1995-2000 - California, New York and Illinois served as
"a trio of gateway states that simultaneously lost migrants to other
states while gaining migrants from abroad."

The surrender of manufacturing employment as a sacrifice to the Free
Traders, has forced this mass exodus of layed-off Americans - our own
displaced persons. If you believe this is an intrinsic result,
inevitable and unalterable; your confidence in political elites and
their distortion of economic self-interest must mean you only buy
Chinese. National suicide is not natural. But for the Free Trader
mesmerized by visions of bountiful prosperity, produced under the
illusion of backwater cheap labor, just what happens when the cash runs
out because jobs left for overseas?

The big picture is confirmed by Pat Choate and cited by Mr Buchanan in
his flagship magazine: "In the 1970s, [the United States]mounted a
decades-long deficit of $75 billion. . . . In the 1980s, the deficit
soared to $843 billion as Japan began to take away our industries. . . .
In the 1990s, that trade deficit doubled to $1.7 trillion. . . . At this
pace, we're probably going to have a $6 trillion cumulative deficit in
this decade - and that's probably an understated number given the pace
we are losing our manufacturing base."

NAFTA is the conveyance upon which the outflow hits home in the most
visible way. The virtual bankruptcy of California has a fundamental
linkage to the damage done by NAFTA. The best test of loyalty to real
Americans is demonstrated by one's attitude about the Free Trade
rip-off. Politicians need to follow the wisdom of the economic miracle
that built our country. SELF Interest in national economic independence
and self sufficiency. If you want solutions, stop the outflow, rebuild
U.S. industry and create domestic jobs.




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