{"id":198131,"date":"2007-12-10T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/10\/edwards-condemns-nafta\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T05:03:00","slug":"edwards-condemns-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/10\/edwards-condemns-nafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards condemns NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His point is not that trade deals are bad, but that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bad<\/span> trade deals are bad.  This is how he <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=10917572&amp;channelId=76&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=866\">couches his condmenation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today, we know those promises were empty,&#8221; he said in remarks prepared for delivery at a town hall forum in Derry. &#8220;In all three countries, it has hurt workers and families while helping corporate insiders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The folks in Washington say that trade is good for the economy, even if it hurts a few &#8216;losers,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the word they use, losers, and it tells you something about how they see regular American workers and families who are struggling to compete.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This attitude on trade deals ties into an attitude of, &#8220;What&#8217;s good for Wall Street is good for the country,&#8221; which the has led to many of the problems we see now (housing crash, credit crunch, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His point is not that trade deals are bad, but that bad trade deals are bad. This is how he couches his condmenation: &#8220;NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today, we know those promises were empty,&#8221; he said in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-commerce","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}