Talk about starting off on the wrong foot!
The nation is struggling to deal with an economic crisis stemming ultimately from under-producing and over-borrowing. Who does President-elect Obama pick as his White House Chief of Staff (and thus closest advisor)? Answer: House Democratic Caucus Chair Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Representative whose resume includes spearheading the Clinton administration’s pork barrel-dominated lobbying campaign to secure Congressional passage of NAFTA – the blueprint for outsourcing-focused trade deals that have ravaged the nation’s productive base.
Although Emanuel has admitted that NAFTA “hasn’t lived up to its hopes,” he has apparently learned little else about the economy in the decade-and-a-half since. He’s evidently happy enough to mouth the liberal Democratic mantra about putting “tough labor and environmental standards” in trade agreements, but seems clueless about a much bigger problem with recent American trade policies – their tight focus on low-income third world countries of value mainly as export platforms for multinational companies, not as final consumers of U.S.-made goods
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