33 Years ago, an Agreement Negotiated by Bill Clinton, and signed by George W. Bush, Created Economic Security for North America

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

NAFTA was not perfect. However, this free trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was critical in establishing economic security for all of North America.

Tariffs were eliminated. All three nations were allowed to set prices for their commodities without interference. It was very successful until George W. Bush placed our nation in two unwinnable wars, and allowed Wall Street to avoid oversight and nearly bankrupt our nation.

This agreement was voided by Trump in 2017.

In 2025, and although he was advised not to place tariffs on nearly every nation in the world, Trump is playing the role of a schoolyard bully and threatening all nations, including our closest allies and neighbors, with outrageous tariffs unless they agree to his demands.

On September 18, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and Mexican President, Claudia Scheinbaum, met in Alberta, Canada to finalize negotiations designed to bypass involvement by America’s failed and arrogant government.

What will the results be? No one knows. However, this may be the beginning of alliances between nations who refuse to surrender to bully Donald John Trump. Trump knows nothing about anything, but one fact he should have known: no country can exist by itself in the 21st century.

If our nation loses a significant number of trade agreements with a growing number of developed nations, we will no longer be the “richest nation in the world,” but one of the poorest.

The United States no longer leads the world in ‘manufactured products.’ Most of our major corporations own and operate facilities in foreign nations. This is where the situation becomes complicated.

America has become a country which relies on the service industry. This is unsustainable.

Our nation’s largest corporations are owned by billionaires/oligarchs. They are traitors to the American people, pledging their fealty not to their country, but to Trump. Will that change if they begin to experience a reduction in their bloated profits?

These, ‘not-so-bright’ men and women are giving Trump everything he wants, believing that America will forever remain an oligarchy.

The problem is that Trump is an idiot. He knows nothing about the economics of big business, and even less about how the world’s economy functions.

His efforts to be the world’s dictator are beginning to unravel. To the uninformed men and women who voted for him, twice, I say, “you will get what you paid for.”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/canada-mexico-trade-trump-00499436

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/canada-mexico-leaders-meet

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/north-american-free-trade-agreement

 

 

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