NAFTA’s Deplorable Legacy | Global Research

NAFTA’s Deplorable Legacy | Global Research

Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O’Grady reinvents history. She does it her way. It’s the wrong way. She turns truth on its head.

Her commentaries read like bad fiction. They substitute misinformation for indisputable facts. Responsible editors wouldn’t touch this. Journal editors embrace it.

NAFTA was hugely destructive trade policy. It’s opposite of what’s needed. More on why below.

Not according to O’Grady. On January 5, she headlined ”Nafta at 20: A Model for Trade Policy.” It’s a model for the wrongheaded kind.

O’Grady claims otherwise.

“Those who predicted that Nafta would lead to joblessness and poverty have been proven definitively wrong,” claims O’Grady.

Hundreds of thousands of impoverished jobless workers explain otherwise. More on this below.

“Freedom to trade with the neighbors (Canada, Mexico and the US) has instead created wealth and opportunity and made the continent more globally competitive,” she says.

Indeed so for corporate predators and rich elites. They profited hugely. They did the old-fashioned way. They benefitted on backs of exploited people.

O’Grady supports more of the same. She’s for greater “North American integration.” In other words, greater corporate favoritism. Fewer worker rights. More job losses. Lower pay and benefits. Profits at the expense of people.