One of the big hot buttons in politics today is American jobs going overseas. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are raging about it and promising to do something about it…if elected.

Well, a lot of these politicians are the same people who voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is the single piece of legislation that opened the floodgates for American jobs to go to other countries where there are little or no regulations put on industries to deal with pollution controls, worker safety, minimum wages and other costs to industry that drive their costs and prices up.

Ross Perot referred to NAFTA as “that giant sucking sound” in January, 1992.  He said that the sound was caused by our jobs being sucked out of America going south of the border.

NAFTA took effect on January 1, 1994. It was pushed by both major political parties as a great step forward in international relations. It was going to lower prices for consumers in the U.S., and it would stabilize the economies in many third-world countries, particularly Mexico.

Well, it’s been almost seventeen years now, and America has been bleeding jobs at an alarming rate for all that time.  Prices have not gone down in the US, but we DO have an abundance of Christmas Tree Shops and Walmarts, whose main suppliers of garbage goods come from the other side of our borders.

And Mexico? Has NAFTA really helped the Mexican economy? Have you read the papers or seen the news lately?

And now, these guys and gals who pushed this legislation upon us are outraged by companies who outsource jobs to foreign countries! Well, what in the hell did they expect?

This righteous indignation is truly a wonderful thing, and it has it’s genesis in pure, abject, unadulterated stupidity!

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Whoever decided that the U.S. national elections should take place in November showed great foresight and intelligence.