From Bill Clinton's speech:

http://www.multied.com/Documents/Clinton/SigningNaFTA.html

We will make our case as hard and as well as we can. And, though the fight will be difficult, I deeply believe we will win. And I'd like to tell you why. First of all, because NAFTA means jobs.
American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

Many Americans are still worried that this agreement will move jobs south of the border because they've seen jobs move south of the border and because they know that there are still great differences in the wage rates. There have been 19 serious economic studies of NAFTA by liberals and conservatives alike; 18 of them have concluded that there will be no job loss.

Businesses do not choose to locate based solely on wages. If they did, Haiti and Bangladesh would have the largest number of manufacturing jobs in the world. Businesses do choose to locate based on the skills and productivity of the work force, the attitude of the government, the roads and railroads to deliver products, the availability of a market close enough to make the transportation costs meaningful, the communications networks necessary to support the enterprise. That is our strength, and it will continue to be our strength. As it becomes Mexico's strength and they generate more jobs, they will have higher incomes and they will buy more American products.


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>It is **VERY** important to most of the rest of the world.
>The US economy is still by far and away the biggest economy in the world. For many countries - especially Canada - a hiccup in the US economy can easily cause pneumonia in other countries.
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>The rest of the world (except China and India) probably feels like it is watching its major 'client' commit economic suicide by shipping manufacturing to China and white-collar jobs to India as fast as they can. The rest of the world likely feels that having moved to be a consumer-dependant economy is a dead end.
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>>>You can't say we never agree -- you took the words right out of my mouth. Walter does raise some valid points sometimes but he seems to have some need to say them with such hostility that nobody wants to listen. Does he think when he mocks our country we won't resent it?
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>>>>Walter, there are times when you bring up valid points, but most often, your rantings against America and Americans smack of nothing more than envy and resentment.
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>>>>Go ahead and hate America. These are just for you:
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>>>>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l7PQw4J3ilo&watch_response
>>>>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2006/08/23/why_the_world_hates_america?page=1
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>>>>When voters go to the polls in Amsterdam or Utrecht they make decisions with no significant consequences beyond the boundaries of Holland; American elections, by contrast, help determine the future of all of civilization and resonate in the remotest corners of the planet.
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>>>>>>I'm at a loss as to why anyone would want to model after Europe. We are the United States of America. Y'all can keep your one world government, we are doing just fine. You may get your wish though the way the liberals have taken over almost all the media. The brainwashing has begun.
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>>>>>Maybe because that is the future ??? The US is outdated, dust and done... It is the most hypocritical society I know. The US needs a slap in the face of reality. It really needs to grow up.