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Over the long run, NAFTA will employ more of everybody -- Americans, Mexicans and Canadians -- and reduce prices for consumers. But undeniably, progress is not without cost. Peace is the same sort of problem: it throws some people out of work. But peace is so much more easily understood -- and sold -- than "free trade." We all know the costs of war. Just turn on the TV. It's less easy to see the costs of trade barriers. And of course they're less severe. But they're there. Just one example: surely Mexico's 20% tariff on American automobiles, which would...
...things Perot and other NAFTA critics say are going to happen if the agreement is signed have already happened. The largest -- and most controversial -- migrants to Mexico have been the automakers and other big manufacturing firms that have built assembly plants, or maquiladoras, along the border and employ low-wage Mexican labor. This process has been going on for more than 20 years. The factories export the vast bulk of their output, basically duty-free, back to the U.S. Some 2,200 maquiladoras, most of them American-owned, employ more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting...
...current grading system expects professors to evaluate students under this very system. If Harvard is to employ such an illogical policy, it should at least ensure that it is used consistently. But a significant number of professors in the sciences, social sciences and humanities told me that they were unaware of Harvard's unusual ranking system...
Those are wise words, and both Perot and his White House foes should heed them. NAFTA supporters do Americans no favor when they decry Perot's demagoguery and then employ demagogic and divisive tactics for their own purposes...
During the agonizing negotiations to end the Korean War, the American general in charge became so infuriated with the rococo delaying tactics of the North Koreans that he asked Washington for permission "to employ such language and methods at the talks as these treacherous savages cannot fail to understand, and understanding, respect." He was turned down. Getting an armistice took two more years of an excruciating saraband between envoys who may have loathed each other but had too much to lose to get mad. Now American and North Korean diplomats are in the trenches again, speaking tactfully on matters...