NAFTA and job growth in the U.S.

Since its inception, a factcheck.org Q/A concludes that NAFTA’s effect on job growth in America is actually negligible.  In 2004, the Congressional Budget Office,
surveyed all the major economic studies of NAFTA’s effects in 2004 and concluded: “NAFTA had little or no impact on aggregate employment.”
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Just who are we to reduce our foreign oil dependency from?

Lately, independence from foreign oil has become a very popular goal in this country.  It has become a matter of national security that we break free from the shackles of these foreign nations.  In his 2007 State of the Union address, Bush stated, “For too long our nation has been dependent on foreign oil. And [...]