Ronald Reagan and NAFTA? Have you seen this before?

This is exactly what America does not need...anymore anti-America and Anti- American worker unfair trade agreements which benefit every other nation in the world except, the U.S.A.! NAFTA...The NORTH AMERICA FOOLISH TRADE AGREEMENT sent American jobs packing over-seas, both low and high skill! American workers were left with what the bird left on the wire! America needs to get out of these one-sided, unfair trade agreements and start getting trade agreements that favor this nation for once before all the jobs are completely gone! Lou Dobb's was right...NAFTA was wrong! America has a 10 trillion dollar national debt, NAFTA was going to put America in the Black Ink according to those who sold the snake oil! Know how to spot a liar...they will tell you NAFTA benefited America!

Reagan was Reponsible for NAFTA.

He didn't implement it, because it took decades to Iron out all the specifics, and get congress to pass it.

They worked on it throughout the Reagan years, through the BUSH sr. years, and well into the CLinton years.

During these years, we heard Republicans referring to democrats as obstructionists.

Why? Because they were! And should have been.

from a right-wing source:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAi...

it appears the conservative sheep herders use the same excuse for nearly all of their anti-American ideas:

After years of negotiation and repeated postponements, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been completed and now awaits congressional consideration. As if on cue, a torrent of opposition has erupted.

The most surprising aspect about the NAFTA debate is the criticism by some conservatives. Opposition to the NAFTA is understandable on the part of protectionists, champions of increased government regulation, and those who unashamedly seek to advance their own fortunes at the expense of the national interest. But for conservatives, there should be little dissension. All the existing empirical data regarding U.S. trade with Mexico, as well as basic economic theory stretching back over 200 years to Adam Smith, shows that the NAFTA is good for the U.S. This is why Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Milton Friedman, to name only some of the most prominent conservatives, strongly support the agreement, even with its admitted flaws. As Thatcher told a U.S. audience recently, America has "nothing to fear" from the NAFTA.

Economists are virtually unanimous in their conclusion that the NAFTA will have a strongly positive impact on job growth throughout the U.S., with most estimates in the hundreds of thousands. Opponents' predictions of a net job loss are backed by no evidence whatsoever.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAi...

REASON #1: NAFTA originated as part of the vision of one of the most outstanding conservatives in this country's history -- Ronald Reagan.

In the late 1970s Ronald Reagan was setting forth his vision of America, a vision that won him the White House and a vision which, when translated into economic policy, led to this country's longest period of economic expansion. Part of that vision was a free trade area in this hemisphere, stretching from the Yukon in the Arctic to the Straits of Magellan in South America.

The Reagan Administration negotiated the country's first free trade area in 1985 with Israel. Next followed the FTA with Canada. NAFTA is the next step in the Reagan vision of a free trade hemisphere.

REASON #2: Conservatives stand for the freedom of individuals, not for the power of governments. NAFTA restores sovereignty to individuals.

The bigger lie:

The approval by the Congress of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a victory of engagement and competition over withdrawal and complacency. The trade pact, which will eliminate tariffs on goods and services between the United States, Canada, and Mexico over a fifteen-year time span, will create the world's largest market: some 360 million people, with an economic output of more than $6 trillion a year. The NAFTA thus guarantees that American workers will remain the most competitive in the world and that American consumers will continue to have access to the world's finest goods and services.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAi...

He considered it and did not implement it because it severely limited our National Security and Sovereignty.

don't have to read the link. yes Reagan considered it but did not do it