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Buchanan, who championed the blue-collar worker, promising to stop sending our jobs to China and Mexico, was appealing to some like dairy farmer Stewart Yatton, who said, "Free Trade and GATT are going to send us to hell...
...GATT and NAFTA, Buchanan said, are programs that benefit large "transnational corporations," not the American worker. Workers, he said, have suffered from declines in real wages and medium income...
...wages or capital flight. If you want to talk about the decline of working-class America, you have to talk about footloose and irresponsible corporations. And the least you can say about Buchanan is that he, alone of all the candidates, talks the talk. He's against NAFTA and GATT, which locates him outside the great bipartisan, pro-business, free-trade coalition led by Clinton, Gingrich and Dole...
...planning to hire Malaysians or Mexicans to replace the 30,000 American workers whose layoffs have just been announced. When corporations want to boost the price of their stock or the pay of their executives by downsizing or lowering wages, they don't need any help from NAFTA or GATT...
...State Warren Christopher nor National Security Advisor Anthony Lake convey to the country that they are firmly in command even as the President is busy elsewhere. All the same, Clinton's foreign policy deserves more respect than it usually receives. He normalized ties with Vietnam, pushed the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements through Congress, propped up the Middle East peace process, deployed forces to Haiti--with almost no casualties--and worked out a deal to halt North Korea's nuclear-weapons program. His Partnership for Peace program has bought time for everyone in Europe and NATO to adjust...