George Putnam
Friday, Dec. 12, 2003

It is this reporter's opinion that we should have listened to Sir James Goldsmith, former member of the British Parliament and internationally recognized economist, when he warned us of the North American Free Trade Agreement, better known as NAFTA, and the New World Order.

Sir James, speaking before our own Senate Commerce Committee hearings on Nov. 15, 1994, stated that NAFTA, GATT and the New World Order were "the most destructive proposal presented to the American people." He based his statement on the experience of Europe: loss of jobs, unemployment and a host of other attendant problems.

But we wouldn't listen when NAFTA was being debated in Congress. Some critics argued it would be bad for U.S. workers. Others said it would hurt Mexican workers, but these concerns were shouted down by the treaty's proponents, who optimistically predicted that a rising tide of profits and productivity would result.

Look at the result today – north or south – and you'll see that the benefits of NAFTA add up to NADA! But the globalists will not give up. Former Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) president Winston Lord stated: "To a certain extent we are going to have to yield some of our sovereignty, which will be controversial at home. Under NAFTA, some Americans are going to be hurt as low-wage jobs are taken away."

On July 18, 1993, CFR member and trilateralist Henry Kissinger wrote, "With NAFTA, [the] U.S. finally creates a New World Order." Kissinger went on:

"NAFTA will represent the most creative step toward a New World Order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War. What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement, but the architecture of a new international system. The trade agreement with Mexico is the vital first step for a new kind of community of nations, a first step toward the New World Order."

And there you have it – in their own words: NAFTA is an important step in the globalists' plan for a New World Order, where national sovereignty will increasingly diminish. My friends, they have a plan for us. It is the end of the sovereign states.

A report by the Economic Policy Institute states, "NAFTA eliminated 766,000 actual and potential U.S. jobs between 1994 and 2000 because of the rapid growth in the net U.S. export deficit with Mexico and Canada."

You might think that the U.S. workers' loss would be the Mexican workers' gain. Wrong!

The job picture for U.S. workers has been grim, but NAFTA's effect on Mexican jobs has been devastating. NAFTA's first year saw the loss of more than a million jobs all across Mexico.

The Mexican government and our own economies are closely tied. It is said, "When the U.S. economy catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia."

After a decade under NAFTA, working people and the poor on both sides of the border have paid a high price for trade liberalization, while benefits have been reaped only by the tiny clique (the elite) that promoted the treaty from the very beginning.

Recently David Bacon, a labor journalist and author of the forthcoming book "The Children of NAFTA," says the Bush administration, not satisfied with the current economic chaos under NAFTA, now hopes to establish a free-trade area in the Americas, which would export NAFTA's principles to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Bush may be running into trouble on that front, however. He has found, in dealing with the trade ministers of Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Venezuela, that they are not willing to repeat our experience with Mexico and follow NAFTA's path to mass unemployment and poverty.

Why did we refuse to listen to the words of Sir James Goldsmith when he warned that NAFTA would prove to be the most destructive proposal ever presented to the American people?

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