McCain, in Mexico, faults Obama on trade

washingtonpost.com     Jul 3, 2008            

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain took a veiled swipe at Democratic rival Barack Obama over trade on Thursday in the final leg of a Latin American trip aimed at showcasing the Arizona senator's foreign policy credentials. McCain, who has pledged not to play politics on foreign soil, has nonetheless used his visit to Colombia and Mexico this week to highlight his strong support for free trade and contrast that with the Illinois senator's position. Obama opposes a trade deal with Colombia and has threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which groups the United States, Canada and Mexico, if it is not altered to improve labor and environmental provisions. After a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, where the two leaders discussed immigration and drug... [read full story]                    


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(anonymous) - Jul 20, 2008 1:55:59 AM
It was the U.S. Federal Government that first sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956. Most Presidents since then played a part in various funding of the Maquiladora factory program in Mexico. At first only a few factories were moved but by 1992 prior to the passing of the NAFTA trade agreement, there were more than 2,000 U.S. factories moved to Mexico to take advantage of workers averaging only 62 cents an hour in the Maquiladora factories. U.S. companies moved their factories there for the sake of this cheap labor and to avoid all the regulations and pollution standards in the USA. There were reports of an increase in abnormal births on both sides of the border. After the passing of NAFTA led by President Clinton with a Democrat controlled Congress locking hands with the Globalist Republicans, the number of factories moved to Mexico quickly doubled to more than 4,000. Soon after, President Clinton had to rush billions of dollars to Mexico to save the peso. None of these actions stop the vast migration of Mexico workers to the USA. Many Mexican workers would not take the jobs in these former U.S. factories due to the low wages. At the same time, so called Free Trade cost millions of middle class workers' jobs in the USA as a new working poor class was created. Temporary, day labor and contract jobs replaced the full time direct jobs with benefits in the USA. In the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins tells about the manipulation of money funds the USA used to control other nations. This is history. It is not make believe and we do not need any conspiracy theories to know , external powerful forces inside government, big business, the media and the academic world played a big part in pushing Free Trade and Globalization. Neither evolved in any natural economic fashion. Senator McCain was there during most of these happenings and Senator Obama ignores the great betrayal of our times. For more , see http://www.bizarrepolitics.com with untold stories behind the news, http://www.therationale.com which explores the issues of worker and labor in philosophy and religion. See also http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews http://tapsearch.com/globalization and http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and help restore the American Dream for all in the world.
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