Sadly uninspired agreement with ya Roswell. Unfortunately, civic duty compels me to vote this year more than the promise of either party.

Seems like they're both clamoring at screwing the American people over in their own special ways.

And also in agreement with Steve; NAFTA was the group think that everyone was engaged in the emergence of the "global market" paradigm (hate that word but accurate, in this case) in the early 90's. Most thought it was a good thing, I believed my professors, and actually thought at the time it was a good thing Clinton signed into law.

It wasn't. And I guess the special interest groups, Big Business, is keeping it worthwhile for the politicians on both sides of the isle not to correct this blunder (of course one with a streak of paranoia could postulate there was a conglomerate of SIG's who all said for their respective businesses, hey folks let's put'em all on the dole and get this thing through, and it's financially more rewarding to grease the machine and keep the status quo than to partition or enhance the partition between the U.S. and the rest of the world.)

What have we gotten from NAFTA, except the initial outsourcing of jobs to Mexico and finally to China.

The whole Canada thing, doesn't phase me for Chrysler as much as it used to (when I first became aware Chryslers were being mfgd there.)