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Re: NAFTA's Strange Bedfellows -- It's Only the Beginning Forbes
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 19:47:13 -0500
From: Herb Dordick <hdordick () weber ucsd edu> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 93 16:34:48 PST The right/left/top/bottom description of the NAFTA debate is interesting. Another interpretation is that the debate showed the beggining or the continuation of class warfare in the US. How often did we hear that those who favored NAFTA were in suits and ties and white shirts and had clean hands and those who opposed NAFTA were in in overalls and had dirty hands. How often did we hear that those that have will benefit but those that do not have will not, will lose. Note the types of firms that are listed as beneficiaries: finance, computers, telecom, biotech,chemoicals and so forth. While the losers will be broom making, shoes, textiles etc. Of course the last group have already lost out. More jobs have already been lost than will be truly due to NAFTA. In any case, we white shirt beneficiaries cannot sit by and do nothing and say this is the way of the world or that life is unfair. It's going to be tough for a lot of people over the next 20 years whether we had NAFTA or did not have NAFTA. Herb
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