My letter in today's Lodi News Sentinel:
Politicians, NAFTA and our present economy
I would like to report on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Americans have very little understanding of NAFTA because it is supposedly separate from local affairs. Actually, it already has affected every single person and household in America, and further destruction of our inalienable human rights should be expected.
When President Clinton approved America's membership in NAFTA, he asked for the people to ignore opposition, like mine, which express "fear tactics" and "adverseness to change." He continued, "I believe that NAFTA will create 200,000 American jobs in the first two years of its effect," and, "I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years of its impact."
America's membership in NAFTA violates Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. constitution, which assigns to Congress a responsibility to regulate commerce with foreign nations. A NAFTA tribunal trumps the U.S. Supreme Court and it already has overturned a ruling. NAFTA is the foundation infrastructure for which the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) plans to establish a North American Union or "community."
Every member nation suffers. American jobs are transferred to Mexico. The Chinese are building automobile production facilities in Mexico to flood automobiles into our market. In Mexico, large investments from large corporations are putting private businesses out of business. Ditto, self-employed farmers who cannot justify the cost of planting, and perhaps switch to [growing] marijuana.
Politics is not a Democrat vs. Republican contest. In Washington, both parties support NAFTA. They embrace the political theories that are established in the Council on Foreign Relations, which is based in New York, not Washington.
In four meetings, Congressman McNerney has mentioned there are troubles with NAFTA. I thought there was hope, until in August, I heard him use the word "fix," which is a campaign to make it bigger. I also heard him use the phrase "security and prosperity," in its literal meaning, not at all referring to the SPP, of course.
I am frustrated to observe Americans re-elect the politicians who support NAFTA, while I observe politicians deny the facts about it, or say it is a hoax.
Daniel Hutchins
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