McCain Scolds Obama, Clinton Over NAFTA

[Terri]

By GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press
March 12, 2008

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that proposals by Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to use pressure tactics to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement could undermine U.S. trade relationships with other nations.

''We've got to stop this protectionist, NAFTA-bashing,'' the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting told a town hall meeting at Savvis Inc., an information technology company.

McCain said his potential Democratic opponents were wrong to threaten pulling out of NAFTA to force Canada and Mexico to negotiate more protections for workers and the environment in the agreement.

If that threat is made, McCain asked, ''What are the other countries in the world going to think about the agreements we've negotiated with them?''

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[jack virtus]

Maybe I'm a dummy, but i can't see how it helps the U.S. economy by letting our manufacturing companies leave here for south of the border, or to Asia for that matter.

[TheIrishman]

NAFTA, GATT and the one I always forget are the worst that has happened to this country. For one thing they allow companies to move their plants and jobs to a foreign country and as long as they have a 'main office' in this country they can import their products WITHOUT an import tax. WHO benefits from that one??