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Elwood P Dowd

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9. NAFTA created 22 million net new jobs. Didn't you know that?

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 01:35 AM

Jun 2015

The free traitor group of 12 here on DU that claim they know all things about trade say its so. They also say that billions of dollars in trade deficits every year is good for us, and that real wages for the middle class are at an all time high. Happy days are here again.

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How did we go from a debate to repeal NAFTA [View all] onecaliberal Jun 2015 OP

How? 99Forever Jun 2015 #1

NAFTA is a very serious oh look a squirrel Man from Pickens Jun 2015 #2

LOL! Baitball Blogger Jun 2015 #3

"The president's a good father and his family is adorable Doctor_J Jun 2015 #4

^^that^^ onecaliberal Jun 2015 #5

Yes. Ed Suspicious Jun 2015 #6

Yes, so true. sabrina 1 Jun 2015 #19

word nt Mojorabbit Jun 2015 #23

Obama was a community organizer helping people who lost their steelworker jobs.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #7

Good point about the dirty, sordid truth Populist_Prole Jun 2015 #8

We were blinded by hope. I was, even when there were warning signs, the FISA Bill Amendment eg. But sabrina 1 Jun 2015 #20

NAFTA created 22 million net new jobs. Didn't you know that? Elwood P Dowd Jun 2015 #9

Real wages for the middle class are at an all time high Recursion Jun 2015 #10

Stats on real wages they use today are a joke. Elwood P Dowd Jun 2015 #11

DUrec. n/t PowerToThePeople Jun 2015 #12

No, that's a myth. The core CPI isn't used to calculate much of anything except Fed rates. Recursion Jun 2015 #13

I hate Glenn Beck, and I damn sure know better than to believe crap from the Census Bureau Elwood P Dowd Jun 2015 #18

That was a joke, right? sabrina 1 Jun 2015 #21

No. The census helpfully publishes these numbers Recursion Jun 2015 #22

No they are not. former9thward Jun 2015 #24

I have read a lot of the threads. Don't buy any of it. onecaliberal Jun 2015 #16

For the record: Keith Olbermann Hosts The 2007 AFL-CIO Democratic Debate nationalize the fed Jun 2015 #14

Yes when I speak of the debate to repeal this is precisely what I'm referring to onecaliberal Jun 2015 #15

Obama said he would renegotiate it, not repeal it BainsBane Jun 2015 #17

Isn't that what he is trying to do? Egnever Jun 2015 #25

TPP isn't NAFTA BainsBane Jun 2015 #26

Fair enough Egnever Jun 2015 #27

You're right. They're nations with with even cheaper labor, lower Exilednight Jun 2015 #28