Nafta Quotes

“Focusing on the dead women enables Americans to ignore the dead men, and ignoring the dead men enables the United States to ignore the failure of its free-trade schemes, which in Juarez are producing poor people and dead people faster than any other product.”
― Charles Bowden, Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

“Actually, if you looked closely, even N.A.F.T.A.'s advocates conceded that it was probably going to harm the majority of the populations of the three countries. For instance, its advocates in the United States were saying, "It's really good, it'll only harm semi-skilled workers"―footnote: 70 percent of the workforce. As a matter of fact, after N.A.F.T.A. was safely passed, the New York Times did their first analysis of its predicted effects in the New York region: it was a very upbeat article talking about how terrific it was going to be for corporate lawyers and P.R. firms and so on. And then there was a footnote there as well. It said, well, everyone can't gain, there'll also be some losers: "women, blacks, Hispanics, and semi-skilled labor"―in other words, most of the people of New York. But you can't have everything. And those were the advocates.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

“eventually you just stop saying that. because you realize you're an idiot.”
― Chris Arnade

“The border guard between US and Mexico has tripled since Nafta... the way what they call globalization actually works, it's all about trapping people in places where you then remove social security, creating people desperate enough to undersell each other, and allow corporations to move around to take advantage of that.”
― David Graeber