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...NAFTA, which will consolidate the United States, Canada and Mexico into the world's largest trading bloc, passed by a vote...
When Congress considers NAFTA this week, we hope that it is able to look beyond Perot's scare tactics and the narrow interests of pressure groups to see the good of the nation as a whole. NAFTA is a large step forward, rejecting it would be an even greater step backward...
...this very moment, dozens of U.S. companies stand poised to leave the country as soon as NAFTA passes both Houses of Congress. Even NAFTA's supporters acknowledge that job losses to the country will be in the hundreds of thousands...
...staff also takes a position that is unnecessarily dismissive of the concerns that working people have about the treaty. Such an elitist attitude cannot be condoned. And it is a subtle attempt to try to downplay the real harm NAFTA will do to America in the short...
Still, I agree with the staff on the most important question: NAFTA deserves your support. It is a worthy treaty because of what it will do for workers in this and other countries in the long run. But support for changes in economic policy that cost thousands their jobs should never come easy--despite what the tone of the staff editorial suggests...