Whats So Bad About NAFTA and GATT?
“Trade agreements are very much tools for deregulation and the result is unsafe food, dangerous trucks on the highway and a lack of border inspections,” said Lori Wallah, director of Ralph Fader’s Citizens Trade Campaign. It certainly is significant when 80% of the Democrats — members of the President’s own party — abandon him and consistently oppose giving him so-called “fast track” authority to negotiate trade agreements. The New York Times recently reported that “Some of Mr. Clinton’s aides are beginning to say that the White House…erred by not acknowledging more explicitly that many Americans are losers from freer trade. They were willing to acknowledge publicly, however, what many say privately: that the Administration wildly oversold the benefits of free trade to ordinary workers in 1993 during the NAFTA debate.” That was the debate, of course, when critics like Pat Bacchanal were severely ridiculed for their opposition to the proposed trade agreement, and the mainstream pres
