Most of the GOP backed NAFTA. The largest companies and banking and Wall Street backed it totally.

Those are the facts.

I never said the GOP was beholden to Wall Street or that big business didn’t like big government. In fact big government was not mentioned or very relevant to NAFTA. But you prefer to sneer at things I didn’t write.

And I said nothing about what lobbyists, big business lobbyists or any other kind, do either.

And I never said one word about whether NAFTA benefited the economy or consumers. Not one word.

I do agree that NAFTA was of benefit to consumers. I backed it at the time and still do. But I never put that in my remarks.

BS. The GOP is the party of small business and the taxpayer. Big Unions and Big Business have always preferred Big Government. This idea that the GOP is beholden to big business is a big crock of BS. Big business spreads its lobbyist cash to everyone in politics.

Nafta benefitted the economy as a whole and the poorest consumers the most by lowering prices.

I thought we transferred to the underclasses so they would forgo revolution.

UAW workers. When they get laid off, they still get paid. Granted that was due to union negotiations, but in a very lopsided legal environment.

Although you could make a case that this is precisely what unemployment benefits do, and they seem quite effective at stopping people from working.