Comments on: Stephen Spruiell: More NAFTA Nonsense from Obama

By: snowy egret

snowy egret — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:53 +0000

Its way past time to repeal NAFTA and end this stuff we must quit wrecking this nation to appeal to the liberal gook headso:-)

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:51:06 +0000

We didn't bid because of the low volume. We turned them over to our local competitor that did get some of the work. Most of the outsourcing of componenets stays in the states. It is the assembly of certain parts that goes to Mexico and Canada, they are then returned to the US for futher manufacturing.. Your list was just the names of manufacturers that Dorgan claims were hurt because of NAFTA. Here is the link where Rich Lowry discussed Obama and NAFTA

By: TedintheShed

TedintheShed — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:23:10 +0000

“Ted offered a list of companies that supposedly lost manufacturing jobs because of NAFTA, one in particular caught my eye, John Deere. Back in 1989, the company I worked for was offered the opportunity to bid on the manufacturing of approximately 70 different components that John Deere was producing in-house. They were looking to outsourse the jobs because they couldn’t manufacture them in-house at a competitive price. This was 4 years prior to NAFTA. John Deere’s job loss was another manufacturers gain. ”

OOC Pam did your company win that bid, and if not do you know where those jobs went to? Are they still in America, or were they lost to an overseas manufacturerer? Oh, and do you know if the jobs on the list I provided are the jobs you are referring to?

One last question: was Stephen Spruiell the chap you quoted in the last article that was using the specious figures regarding the economy? I can seem to locate the original thread.

Thank you.