Word: nafta
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...beat. So we'd fixed the economy, we'd done NAFTA, we'd done the crime bill, and instead of me paying for it, all of these brave members of Congress that voted to do something about the deficit and to take on the N.R.A. and who tried to do something about health care, they paid. I just felt terrible about that. And here we were at the beginning of this government shutdown. It worked out just fine in the end politically for me and for America because I stopped it, but no one knew in the beginning...
...people what that means. That's what he wants." Result: the campaign no longer uses the shorthand phrase Massachusetts liberal. Bush last week instead pointed to the particular when he told Republican Governors, "The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions: for tax cuts and against them. For NAFTA and against NAFTA. For the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one Senator from Massachusetts...
...straight: most of the jobs that have shifted to places like Mexico and China in the past several decades have been in manufacturing, which is being done with ever increasing sophistication in low-wage countries. Some have also blamed trade-liberalization deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which the Labor Department estimates was responsible for the loss of more than 500,000 U.S. jobs between 1994 and 2002. That's a significant number but modest in comparison with the millions of jobs that are created and lost annually in the constant churn of the U.S. economy. Indeed...
...Kerry told TIME. "And I think the No. 1 major issue facing the country right now is, How do you really create the jobs that we want?" With a touch of demagoguery, John Edwards has sought to get an edge on Kerry by reviving the unresolved battle over NAFTA, which Kerry voted to approve a decade ago. "When it comes to bad trade agreements, I know what they do to people," Edwards said last week. "I have seen it with my own eyes what happens when the mill shuts down." Kerry points out that at the time Edwards...
...define the Democratic frontrunner for them, even before Kerry locks up the nomination. In his speech to Republican governors Monday night, the President never mentioned Kerry by name, but took some pretty good shots at "one senator from Massachusetts." Bush accused Kerry of being both for NAFTA and against NAFTA, both for and against the war in Iraq, both for and against the Patriot Act. The President's message to voters: Democrats are wusses; you may or may not agree with my policies, but you want someone with strong convictions in office if al-Qaeda strikes again. Of course...