I disagreeand I disagree stronglywith President Clintons unfair characterization of labors efforts against NAFTA as "roughshod. musclebound." Those unwarranted code words were demeaning to every working person and to organized labor. Also objectionable in all the rhetoric. has been the suggestion that Mexico is in some way not good enough to join us in a trade agreement. We have heard derisive comments about poor housing. low wage rates. environmental and health problems. drug trafficking. illegal immigration and various other matters. Much of this rhetoric is meanspirited and frankly in my view. bigoted. Mexico is a country with its problems--just as we have our problemsbut it is making progress on solving them.
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