LIE OF THE WEEK: 08-10-2007
Senator Hillary Clinton on her "opposition" to NAFTA:
"This deal was negotiated by Washington insiders," he said. "It's cost us a million jobs." Clinton said the way NAFTA has been implemented "has hurt a lot of American workers" and called for a "trade prosecutor" to enforce such agreements. "For 15 years, I have stood up against the right-wing machine," Clinton said. "So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl."
THE TRUTH: Senator Clinton's main supporters are the business interests who paid (with campaign contributions to her husband) for the creation of NAFTA during the Clinton Administration and continue to pay (with campaign contributions to her) to keep it going. She has absolutely been on the wrong side of this issue in every single vote on every single bill. This issue is one of the few where unions are actually on the right side of an issue. Free trade is a good thing only when trading with countries that have decent worker protections so that we are not trading our support of human rights and decent jobs in America in exchange for lower cost goods and higher corporate profits. This hypocritical pandering is not going to convince anyone and will surely contribute to Senator Clinton's rightful defeat in the election.
"This deal was negotiated by Washington insiders," he said. "It's cost us a million jobs." Clinton said the way NAFTA has been implemented "has hurt a lot of American workers" and called for a "trade prosecutor" to enforce such agreements. "For 15 years, I have stood up against the right-wing machine," Clinton said. "So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl."
THE TRUTH: Senator Clinton's main supporters are the business interests who paid (with campaign contributions to her husband) for the creation of NAFTA during the Clinton Administration and continue to pay (with campaign contributions to her) to keep it going. She has absolutely been on the wrong side of this issue in every single vote on every single bill. This issue is one of the few where unions are actually on the right side of an issue. Free trade is a good thing only when trading with countries that have decent worker protections so that we are not trading our support of human rights and decent jobs in America in exchange for lower cost goods and higher corporate profits. This hypocritical pandering is not going to convince anyone and will surely contribute to Senator Clinton's rightful defeat in the election.
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