| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
United We Stand America: Focus on economy & debt.
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Civil Rights
Calling NAFTA opponents “racist” is a smear tactic.
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Drugs
Drug traffickers will take advantage of open Mexican border.
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Education
Create world’s finest public schools.
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Environment
Mexico provides escape from US environmental regulations.
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Foreign Policy
NAFTA yields US sovereignty to international organizations.
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Free Trade
NAFTA’s main beneficiary: 36 people who own half of Mexico.
NAFTA is good for investors & bad for jobs.
Mexicans are good; NAFTA is not.
Fast Track makes more secrecy and less public input.
NAFTA will cause a giant sucking sound as jobs go south.
Maquiladoras just steal jobs; it’s not really “trade”.
NAFTA allows prison-made Chinese textiles into US via Mexico.
Ten principles of a good trade agreement with Mexico.
Long-term US trade strategy: focus on debt & jobs.
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Government Reform
United We Stand America: create government from the people.
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Health Care
NAFTA is backdoor deregulation; lowers FDA standards.
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Homeland Security
Manufacturing industry needed for self-defense.
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Immigration
NAFTA will encourage illegal immigration.
NAFTA lets Mexican professionals work in the US legally.
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Jobs
US farmers & ranchers will lose out to Mexico & Canada.
NAFTA’s beneficiaries: US companies that move to Mexico.
US is becoming a nation of hamburger flippers.
Jobs lost to NAFTA are not replaced at same pay.
Mexican unions are beholden to one-party government.
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Technology
NAFTA will hurt US telecommunications companies.
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