UPDATED: B402 You did not post all the facts. Your "LMAO" is rated as being at your own expense. You got Reagan's initiative and Clinton's signing right. That's about it. You did not mention HW Bush's NAFTA draft involvement. You gave a ham sandwich without the ham. It was a crucial omission of yours which blackhawks included. Also in describing the NAFTA vote you simply said it was a weird one which left any reader unaware of the vote wondering what the hell you meant. blackhawks offered the apparent fact that more Republicans in both the House and the Senate voted for NAFTA, yet just because Clinton signed the final draft (with little if any input, one year into his presidency) you put it all on Democrats. Why? Because you felt NAFTA was a negative. That of course is only your opinion, one which is at odds with a preponderance of experts too.
UPDATE: Add to that another little fact you conveniently ignore:
Thanks, SoxFan, Who Calls the Shots in the Global Economy?
"[...]However long before NAFTA companies were trying to copy Japanese auto manufacturers and their Just-in-time processes."
Have said before your historical insights particularly are enlightening, and much appreciated. Your earlier
"it wasn't the politicians who lost China it was capitalism as the major culprit. In the late 80's the largest chain store Walmart followed by Target basically forced suppliers to open factories overseas to lower costs. A side benefit was the companies actually got tax breaks doing so. One Harvard case study was about Rubbermaid in which Walmart said to them open a factory in China or we will stop buying from you. The CEO looked at all his employees who would be laid off and said no. The following year..." https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=166865015
most interesting and something i hadn't been as clearly aware of before. It led to this article