Reply #16: NAFTA vs. Isolationism [View All]

[PATRICK]

Unfortunately the world and its peoples lose with both. In fact some of the same evils sneak by because the real problem is with neither viewpoint but the free rein given to corporate robber barons.

NAFTA was a a bill of goods, but it did have the point of leveling the inequities of the world- eventually- IF the regulation was down in the social interest fairly for everyone. That means growing environmental and democratic civil governments aborad, unions protecting their position by growing unions abroad. In other words, REALLY leveling the field as much as possible, not dumping democracy overboard as foreign jobs shipped overseas become Trojan horses for corporate conquerors while back home WE become a permanently degraded third world population(Note our bellwheather poverty rate and infant mortality rate). Only OUR Imperialists will find a way to construct an American Ponzi pyramid out of the mess.

The dream of Globalists and their worker paradise(free of unions and civil governments)was childish and clubbish in not facing up to the sources of the worst historic tagedies throughout human history. Rapacity for power, greed, elitism and hatred. Among their own. Among the drivers and suppliers of the world economic shift. The Grand Illusion.