The other day when I was in my financial economics class, our teacher was very biased towards the open borders of trade in favor of NAFTA, the North America Free Trade Agreement. Simplified, NAFTA is an agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to allow mostly unrestricted free trade between the three countries. My professor was obviously pro-NAFTA in speaking on talking points such as saving money with these cheaper products and strengthening our relations with Canada and Mexico.

Personally, I don’t have a stance for or against NAFTA but many American workers including those in unions have a hatred for this political agreement. My SUV was made in Mexico by the Ford Motor Company and its a great vehicle. Yet, I would like to see higher paying jobs inside the borders to help strengthen our countries GDP.

NAFTA isn’t the problem. Both Republicans and Democrats alike have spoken on NAFTA various times throughout this campaign cycle yet have ignored the bigger threat that President Bush adressed a few years ago in his State of the Union Address. Hint: Its the country everyone is protesting for the Olympics…yep…Big Red.

Now a days, China is the huge pain in the ass because people still buy their cheaply sold and cheaply made products in stores all over the US ande Canada, yet fail to realize we are sending massive amounts of capital overseas to China for these goods when they could be made in our country. Wait, isn’t China in a communist political system? Didn’t know it was a tradition for the greatest country on earth so send billions each year to China only for them to return the money to bail out our financial brokerages and banks. Since when did the United States need Chinese products and Chinese investment to bail out our country? What would Lincoln or FDR think of such filth?

Can we please trade just between the US, Canada, and Mexico…some of our biggest allies that are in fact democratic nations?

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