Capital Beat passes along Sen. Kay Hagan’s terse press release in response to administration chief trade negotiator Ron Kirk’s statement that efforts will be made to avoid renotiating NAFTA.
Hagan says:
“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.”
Seems like Hagan used this logic during the campaign and I didn’t get it then any more than I get it now. Exactly how does forcing trading partners to our ‘enforce labor and environmental standards’ save American jobs? It sounds to me like that would just make for better working conditions south of the border.
I’m just asking.
