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Rex

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16. Okay so how did NAFTA help this lady without hands? It was in place for decades

Reply to Recursion (Reply #14)

Fri Jun 12, 2015, 09:56 AM

Jun 2015

and helped raise the standards of living for her and others like her? She made more money because of NAFTA? Had better safety protocols in place in the factory she worked at?

I guess you don't get it, but you just hurt your argument worse and worse by bringing up NAFTA. Ross Perot was right and you are wrong. NAFTA...any free trade deal...is total garbage for the labor force.

Great for investment bankers and factory owners.

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When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, nobody would help me [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 OP

I wonder if she has applied to the IMSS Warpy Jun 2015 #1

People don't matter, unless they're customers. xfundy Jun 2015 #2

Now if she were a corporation, she could ask for damages in the NAFTA court. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #3

Good thing we got NAFTA! That should help her...oh right, she is not incorporated. Rex Jun 2015 #4

LG (Zenith at the time) opened the Reynosa factory in 1983 Recursion Jun 2015 #5

Wouldn't have if there where serious tariffs in place rather than a job and wage killing TheKentuckian Jun 2015 #6

Yes and the cult of money worshipers are gross and pathetic. Rex Jun 2015 #8

And? Rex Jun 2015 #7

11 years before NAFTA, Zenith shipped those jobs to Mexico where the safety standards are lower Recursion Jun 2015 #9

The article is not about a women from 1983. Rex Jun 2015 #10

True, it's about a woman who lost her hands in a factory built more than a decade before NAFTA Recursion Jun 2015 #11

Nonsense you are just guessing that based on nothing. Rex Jun 2015 #12

Zenith had no affliliation with LG (Lucky Goldstar) until 1990 Demonaut Jun 2015 #13

I know. But that plant was built, and those jobs were shipped, in the 1980s Recursion Jun 2015 #14

Okay so how did NAFTA help this lady without hands? It was in place for decades Rex Jun 2015 #16

It didn't help her or hurt her Recursion Jun 2015 #20

Thanks for admitting NAFTA has no benefit to the work force. Rex Jun 2015 #21

I always said that (nt) Recursion Jun 2015 #24

I know, I am just messing with you a little bit. Rex Jun 2015 #25

Bluntly: they're taking the jobs whatever we do Recursion Jun 2015 #27

Well this just changed my mind davidpdx Jun 2015 #15

I recommend LG monitors to customers, never again. Rex Jun 2015 #17

I've been up there once near the boarder for a DMZ tour davidpdx Jun 2015 #18

Word of warning...don't buy anything with Windows 8...make sure it is at least 8.1 Rex Jun 2015 #19

Yeah I wouldn't buy anything without 8.1 davidpdx Jun 2015 #22

They are giving out free upgrades for Windows 10 right now for a limited time. Rex Jun 2015 #23

Yeah I got the notice as well davidpdx Jun 2015 #29

Coming soon to an America near you! nt raouldukelives Jun 2015 #26

after the '85 quake the soldiers cordoned off a sewing factory, shoved aside the survivors digging MisterP Jun 2015 #28