I’m still trying to get my arms around Sen. Kay Hagan’s statement about possibly amending NAFTA:
“This country’s current trade policy is not working. The manufacturing economy in North Carolina has suffered and far too many North Carolinians have lost their jobs. It is only right we require our trading partners to enforce the labor and environmental standards that we ask of our manufacturing industry.”
I’m trying to figure out if I missed the logic that states mandating tougher environmental and labor standards on trade partners might discourage companies from going south of the border, thus saving American jobs.
But what I’ve read so far indicates that the desire for tougher standards arises from concerns over living standards for workers in those countries. A noble cause, but I still don’t understand how that saves American jobs. I’m not the brightest guy in the world, so help me out if I’m missing it.
