Comments on: Saving the planet, one or two countries at a time http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/02/23/saving-the-planet-one-or-two-countries-at-a-time/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:07:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/02/23/saving-the-planet-one-or-two-countries-at-a-time/#comment-302419 gs Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:02:55 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/02/23/saving-the-planet-one-or-two-countries-at-a-time/#comment-302419 While sharing Jack's trepidation about Obama, I wonder if NAFTA is working properly. During the 1993 Gore-Perot <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/13/lkl.01.html" rel="nofollow">debate</a>, Al Gore talked Mexico:<blockquote>GORE: The best way to eliminate our influence down there is to defeat NAFTA. The best way to preserve it is to enter into this bargain, continue the lowering of the barriers. We've got a commitment that they're going to raise their minimum wage with productivity. We've got an agreement for the first time in history to use trade sanctions to compel the enforcement of their environmental standards. As they begin to develop and locate better jobs farther south, we cut down on illegal immigration.</blockquote>Did illegal immigration continue to grow because, among other reasons, NAFTA in effect subsidizes <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118615255900587380.html" rel="nofollow">monopolistic</a> inefficiencies in the Mexican economy? While sharing Jack’s trepidation about Obama, I wonder if NAFTA is working properly.

During the 1993 Gore-Perot debate, Al Gore talked Mexico:

GORE: The best way to eliminate our influence down there is to defeat NAFTA. The best way to preserve it is to enter into this bargain, continue the lowering of the barriers. We’ve got a commitment that they’re going to raise their minimum wage with productivity. We’ve got an agreement for the first time in history to use trade sanctions to compel the enforcement of their environmental standards. As they begin to develop and locate better jobs farther south, we cut down on illegal immigration.

Did illegal immigration continue to grow because, among other reasons, NAFTA in effect subsidizes monopolistic inefficiencies in the Mexican economy?

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