Posted: Nov 27, 07 5:49am
Prior to the creation of Nafta in 1993, North Carolina was a center of textile manufacturing. Cone Mills, Burlington Ind., Guilford Mills, J.P. Stevens and other myriad supporting industries made their homes here. Workers were asked to support NAFTA to ensure thier own jobs, by allowing their companies to grow and expand. Success! Now, out of the 6+ world corporate headquarters that were here, all of them are gone but one. It has another year or two. What happened to this model of prosperity? Textiles were sent south. Generations of manufacturing expertise were lost, and people displaced. Here in the south, we call that unemployed. Greed, corruption, sucked the well dry. The Mexican government lost to China, what we gave them on a platter. Now we have passed CAFTA. What's your vision on this? Another success? Will South America be lifted up? Will more U.S. workers fall again? Don't forget, there's more parts of NAFTA coming... Do you see, or even want open borders? One America Union?
Just wait....
