Word: nafta
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...perfect. We are concerned about his support for agricultural subsidies, which distort the global market for food and prevent developing countries from being able to earn foreign exchange. His lukewarm stance on free trade—including a vague promise to “renegotiate” NAFTA and his refusal to support free trade agreements with important allies like South Korea—is also a cause for concern. But compared to the economic plan of his rival, a self-proclaimed “footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution,” Obama’s plan...
...Both men have shown they will do what's necessary to win. For Obama, that meant trimming positions on offshore drilling, gun control, nafta, Cuba, public campaign funding, fisa. And in choosing Joe Biden, he acknowledged that when it comes to making change happen, a working knowledge of the old ways may still be useful. McCain has reinvented himself as well, arguing against the Bush tax cuts when they were temporary but now wanting to make them permanent, which is like marrying someone you didn't want to date. Eight years ago, he waffled on Roe; now he wants...
...primaries, Obama tried to assuage these concerns by bashing NAFTA and other trade deals, but he largely failed. In states where globalization has hit hard, such as Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, he lost working-class whites. And one reason is that globalization anxiety is not merely economic; it is cultural. In recent decades, the face of America has changed. At one end of the class ladder, low-wage workers have streamed in from Latin America, transforming parts of the country that hadn't seen significant immigration in a century. At the other, America's economic lite has become...
...cars are sporting bumper stickers reading if you want to be respected, stay away. ''The blockade's message to Mexicans was 'We don't like you,' '' says Pablo Cuaron, president of COPARMEX-Juarez, a business association. ''Feelings have been hurt.'' The furor could have an impact on the NAFTA treaty, whose boosters have showcased the traditional harmony between border communities. ''Free trade? We've had it for years,'' says pawnbroker Saul Frank. ''The blockade's a step back.'' INS officials sought to pacify angry critics last week by no longer calling it a blockade. Whatever it is called, approval...
...freedom. Defining it is another matter. Party members I've met often speak of freedom as if it were a phantom limb: you're born with it, but it gets taken from you by the bureaucratic violence of the EPA, the ATF, the DOE, the DEA, the U.N., NCLB, NAFTA and--above all--the IRS. Freedom's restoration is the magic moment when the nanny state melts away and you can see the life you were supposed to live before the tax auditors and environmental regulators and drug warriors all came to rope, brand and pen you in for life...