Bill Clinton and NAFTA

On December 8^th, 1993 Bill Clinton signed the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Eric Foner, the compiler of these documents, mentions in the foreword that because Clinton was finishing the work of his predecessor George H.W. Bush that there was an overwhelming consensus that this so called “free trade agreement” was the right move. To insinuate that George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton represent all interests of the American political and economic is dubious at best. Those two men also supported the same policy of dropping bombs in the Middle East during their time as President. Which has become a morbid tradition since JFK that has been continued through George W. Bush and now Barack Obama; but of the last four Presidents clearly two of these men are “democrats” and the other two are “republicans.” Bill Clinton even attacked Iraq with 23 Tomahawk missiles for the alleged assassination attempt of George H.W. Bush [1], killing many innocent people on that day to “protect” a different mass murderer, Clinton would go on to bomb many thousands more during his 2 terms. Needless to say, they all read from the same script.

         
That script is written by the corporate elite who write up “trade agreements” like NAFTA in the totalitarian tiptoe towards one world government. Throughout the speech Clinton references trying to “create a world of free trade supported by institutions which would facilitate it…” The institutions Clinton is mentioning are these massive corporations which corner markets through buying politicians to stack the deck in their favor. Many large corporations pay zero taxes and their CEOs move their money off-shore and pay relatively no income tax or any other taxes. These corporations operate like cartels and many outlets tout the numbers of “created jobs” from this agreement but fail to see the underlying print; NAFTA may have “created more jobs” but corporations like Wal-Mart running small markets out of business then hiring people at minimum wage can hardly be counted among “created jobs.” Also between 2001 and 2003 when this agreement got out of its boom stage and into bust 2.4 million domestic jobs were lost with a high concentration in the manufacturing sector [2]. This agreement opened up the borders for these cartels to move seamlessly across North America which opens up the “Pandora’s box” of cheap foreign labor.

Bill Clinton would continue to boldly claim there would be “no loss of jobs” and that NAFTA was to “help out the middle class” all with a straight-face. As good as Clinton’s poker face was one thing that always gives away he’s lying…his lips are moving. Today there are over 18,000 companies with U.S investments in Mexico [3]. One of the most notorious, PepsiCo, has made a huge push into Mexico and continue now going into Central and South America [4]. As these interests slowly tiptoe their way past the border, the world is then open for them as they expand and exploit, like Apple Inc. into China at glorified sweat shops like FoxxConn [5]. Then the kicker, these huge cartels move their businesses overseas on taxpayers’ money [6]. It’s a great plan Bill, just when does this part about helping the middle class kick in?

Works Cited

Von Drehle, David, and Jeffrey Smith. "Washington Post." U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush. Washington Post Staff Writers, 27 J. Web. 27 Jul 2012. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm>. [1]      

Scott, R. E.. "The high price of ‘free’ trade: Nafta’s failure has cost the united states jobs across the  nation." Economic policy insitute. Economic Policy Institute, 2003. Web. 27 Jul 2012.                 <http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp147/>. [2]

"Mexico." U.S. Department of State. Bureau Of Western Hemisphere Affairs, 2011. Web. 27 Jul 2012. <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm>. [3]

Bouckley, Ben. Beverage Daily. N.p., 26 Jul 2012. Web. 27 Jul 2012.                 <http://www.beveragedaily.com/Financial/PepsiCo-desperate-to-build-Mexico-cola-volumes-Coca-Cola-FEMSA>. [4]

Duhigg, C.. "How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes." Wall street journal. N.p., 2012. Web. 27 Jul 2012.<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states- and-nations.html?pagewanted=all>. [5]

Dzieza, J.. 8 ridiculous tax loopholes: How companies are avoiding the tax man. N.p., 2012. Web. 27 Jul 2012. <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/25/8-ridiculous-tax-loopholes-how- companies-are-avoiding-the-tax-man.html>. [6]

The National Security Strategy of the United States, 2002

The White House officially released this document on September 20^th, 2002 just over a year after the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, 2001. In September of 2000, a “Neoconservative” American organization named the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) released documents entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century this documents main points consisted of US Military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. PNAC’s document also warned of the “dangerous” regimes in North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran (3 of 4 we have bombed in the last year) this group called for our country to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars” as a “core mission.” This “American grand strategy” was to be advanced “as far into the future as possible.” Their documents concluded that this “process of transformation” was likely to be a long one...”absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.” Some prominent members of PNAC include founders Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Lewis “Scooter” Libby. David Frum another person closely connected to PNAC wrote George W. Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union Address in which he dubbed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the “Axis of Evil.”

               
The 2002 NSS contained much of the same type of material; using an Orwellian language to cacophemize the so-called “Muslim extremists” while simultaneously justifying violent overthrows and tyranny. It comes as little surprise that this document calls for pre-emptive military strikes among other policies which reflect the work of the Department of Defense 1992 work titled “Defense Policy Guidance” prepared by PNAC member Paul Wolfowitz and convicted-felon “Scooter” Libby who were working under Dick Cheney in the Department of Defense.  Both Libby and Wolfowitz also went on to become George W. Bush’s cabinet members, and of course Cheney was Vice-President according to their official titles.    

            
What a grand coincidence that three September in a row would mark this powerful group calling for “a new Pearl Harbor”, the next year that cataclysmic event happens then the third year their unofficial declaration of war and they have the nerve to spend a whole chapter patronizing “American exceptionalism” and “freedom, democracy” with millions of dead brown people in their wake. These are just a few examples of the laundry list of connections, anomalies, and other suspicious events that happened on that day. But the fact that they used 9/11 to justify invading Iraq murdering hundreds of thousands shows that at the very least these people exploit terrorist attacks and massacres to further an agenda that was long set in stone, as simple as Problem-Reaction-Solution.

                                                                                                                                             Today, Barack Obama is signing the U.N. Small Arms Treaty that will ban semi-automatic guns and make all guns have to be registered in a national database. Of course, what gun did alleged “Batman” killer brandish; a semi-auto. 6-miles from where the legendary “Columbine” shooting and just another few miles outside of the military industrial complex; where the hell else would you get tear gas from? Multiple witnesses have reported teargas coming from all directions, someone opening the backdoor for letting him in, and some have even said there were multiple shooters. The FBI themselves released a report on May 17, 2012 that there would be “increased terror threat” this summer at movie theatres and malls. By the way, did you see James Holmes at his arraignment, the guy looked so drugged out of his eyelids weighed 10,000 pounds! Of course the most damning bit of evidence that this was “false flag” terror…Barack Obama and Eric Holder already got busted once with Operation “Fast & Furious” killing somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 people by giving Mexican drug cartels fully automatic guns and letting them run amok. They’re talking about the death penalty for James Holmes; what do we do with Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, George H. Bush, Hillary Clinton, etc. etc?