President Obama Backstabing Workers in USA and Canada

i don't know what is this NAFTA. i don't agree mostly on the moves or actions of obama. hopefully that he will take good care of the employees of USA. people are losing jobs. lots of them actually. this is bad to their economy.

I can't say that I support NAFTA, never did right from the start, but how exactly do you figure that the many jobs being lost today are Obama's fault. First of all, most of the jobs being lost are due to the problems that the corporations are having because of the global recession, which was caused by banks and insurance companies, not by Obama. Secondly, even if you do believe that the job losses are all the fault of the government, then surely you are aware that the Obama government has only been in power for a few months, and the problems that are leading to these job losses were created long before Obama came to power. In other words, the seeds were sowed by the 8 years of the Bush administration and its policies. The global recession was caused by the reckless borrowing of money, which was allowed by the short sighted policies of the Bush government. Economic crashes don'y just happen in a few months, they take years to make. It amazes me that some people blame Obama for thing that were set in motion years ago, long before he was in power.

I have never been a strong supporter of NAFTA. It was first proposed under the Republicans of President Bush (the elder) in the late 1980s. It was to open the borders for trade between Canada, Mexico, and USA, thus avoiding tariff and import/export fees. Supposedly to save companies money, therefore the products would be cheaper. To me, it didn't work. Expenses saved went into senior management and investor (stockholder) pockets and screwed over the blue collar workers. And they're still screwing over the blue collar worker! The ones backstabbing the workers are the senior management (CEOs, CFOs, board members, etc) of those companies. They need to take the big hit and reduce their compensation packages to that of their blue collar workers! That would save the companies millions of dollars! We all need to learn that while some greed is necessary for company and personal growth, overdoing it causes economic breaking of the camel's back. (Essentially, these highly greedy top management people need to be humilated at taking all they have just for themselves without consideration for the workers of the companies they lead. They need to remember that it is the workers that make the company, they only lead it. Only time will tell if Obama's policies will cause a turn-around in the economy. I think that the economic recession is global, therefore bigger than what Obama, let alone the USA, can resolve. But, I am willing to give Obama's policies the time it needs to be clear that it's working or not. I believe we all need to before pronouncing it a failure. About 70 years ago, the economy bottomed out. Republican President Herbert Hoover did nothing to try to turn the economy around. While President Franklin Roosevelt's policies did not fix the economy directly, the policies did a lot to restore confidence in our financial industry.