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One thing we're going to do is talk just about that: Obamacare, jobs. Our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move. Our jobs be being... Look at Ford two weeks ago. Ford Motor. They're gonna make all of their smaller cars in Mexico. They're gonna move everything outta here. And so many... I mean, Carrier air-conditioners. I talk about all these companies. There are hundreds of companies. They're moving out to Mexico and other countries.


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Trump, Donald J. Remarks at a Campaign Rally. Toledo, OH, 27 Oct. 2016.

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Bonior and many others believe that NAFTA was the cause of the worker displacement. Others believe that the forces causing loss of well-paying manufacturing jobs—robotic replacement of human workers and offshoring—were already in existence and were reaching their high rates at shortly after NAFTA. Correlation in time does not necessarily imply causation.


Many free-traders disagree. While there is unemployment in the auto industry from imported cars, there is increased employment in the importing process, the marketing, selling, and maintenance of the imported cars as well as their financing. Further, when trade is open, we can then export products and services to Japan and this creates jobs. No one has ever been able to exactly measure the jobs created so it is an unsettled intellectual economic and political question. However, the people who lose jobs to imports are generally identifiable while the beneficiaries of many of the new jobs created by open trade are never specifically identified, so public opinion is more sympathetic to the former.


It is very easy for an American company to make parts in the United States, ship them to Mexico for assembly and bring the finished product back. However, for counties like France it is much more difficult.


Donald Trump
Donald Trump
  • Born: June 14, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: U.S. President, Businessman

Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.