Speech #1030110307

So many. in fact. that passage of the United States/Mexico trade agreement in Congress is still in doubt. But rather than give us a fair chance to speak. the Post and the others prefer to portray us as a bunch of backward folks who just pulled into town in a pickup truck looking for directions. We are dismissed as isolationists. protectionists. xenophobes. and labor dupes who fear the bracing winds of progress and change. NAFTA supporters. meanwhile. are always described as visionaries. statesmen. and deep thinkers. never corporate flacks or paid representatives of foreign governments. people wholike the proNAFTA pundits generallyare not likely to lose their own jobs if more plants move to Mexico. This is a shame.