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Biden to reinstate labor rule shelved by Reagan, giving construction workers a pay boost
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It wasn't Republicans that sent most of the union manufacturing jobs overseas.
They can't sell it because voters are smarter than this, 'most pro union President ever' busting up union strikes doesn't pull a strong vote of confidence
So you're saying CEOs aren't Republican?
This link says that 70% of CEOs are Republican and CEOs have direct control over a company's labor force. Maximizing profits for shareholder profit is what CEOs do, and shipping jobs overseas is the easiest, and laziest, ways of doing that.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/08/top-business-execs-more-polarized-than-nation-as-whole/#:~:text=Nearly%2070%20percent%20of%20America's,Harvard%20Business%20School%2C%20Vyacheslav%20Fos
Capital isnt loyal to any one party.
More loyal to one. Significantly.
No, but it knows where to buy loyalty the cheapest.
Right? It's like, no shit capital doesn't have some ideological tie to one party or another, but it's pretty moronic to ignore the inverse.
Exactly! Both parties are owned.
@K1nsey6 @Hazdaz
Business Insider disagrees.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-american-jobs-in-the-80s-2017-7?op=1
@girlfreddy @[email protected] @Hazdaz
NAFTA, originally drafted under Reagan, and spearheaded by Clinton to get it passed, gave our manufacturing away.
@K1nsey6 @[email protected] @Hazdaz
NAFTA was signed by Reagan in 1988.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
Can you not read your own source?
"All three countries ratified NAFTA in 1993"
@K1nsey6
The first NAFTA between Canada and the US was signed in 1988. The second one, signed in 1993, included Mexico.
The above is also included in the link I gave, or did you just ignore that part?
'The impetus for a North American free trade zone began with U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who made the idea part of his 1980 presidential campaign. After the signing of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the administrations of U.S. president George H. W. Bush, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney agreed to negotiate what became NAFTA'
The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement superseded by NAFTA.
@K1nsey6
You are simply saying the same thing over and over again and you're still wrong. Arguing semantics is silly at best.
The first trade agreement was signed by Reagan and Mulroney. I remember the negotiations happening and was disgusted by how Mulroney simply caved to what Reagan wanted (as many other Canadians were at the time).
The agreement never helped Canada at all. It was only good for the US exports. It didn't lower costs to us or help Canada.
Blame the CEOs and stockholders for profit before country.