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...agree that Perot's discourse on NAFTA has been, in general terms, incoherent and full of inaccuracies. He said, for example, that 85 million Mexicans live in poverty, when according to the last census Mexico's population is only 83 million. I also agree that the positive and negative impact of NAFTA on the U.S. economy was disproportionately assessed by both Ross Perot and Al Gore. Mexico's economy is too small (Mexico's GDP is only 4 percent of U.S. GDP) to have as enormous an effect on the U.S. economy and labor market as the two speakers implied...
...American jobs and decrease in American wages. The media has lavished attention on the miserably threatened Detroit blue-collar worker, the innocent U.S. orange and sugar producers who have suddenly been deprived of their prized home market shares. While everybody has taken into account the effects of an approved NAFTA on the United States, who has even considered the effects of a rejected NAFTA on Mexico...
...Tuesday November 9th, 1993, around 400 Harvard students gathered at the Forum of the John F. Kennedy School of Government to celebrate Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's 85th Birthday and watch the debate on NAFTA between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Ross Perot. After the debate, Galbraith commented on what has been the most widely seen event on cable TV's history. He criticized Perot's lack of coherence and the exaggeration of both debaters on the impact NAFTA would have in the U.S. economy...
White House officials attempted to ensure that the unease caused by the Democrats' Election Day losses did not hurt the North American Free Trade Agreement. Pollster Stan Greenberg was sent to Capitol Hill to convince Democrats that supporting NAFTA would not displease voters. In the meantime, Vice President Al Gore surprisingly challenged Ross Perot, NAFTA's fiercest opponent, to a debate over its merits, and Perot, unsurprisingly, accepted...
POLITICS: A Shoot-Out over NAFTA...