by Jack324 March 26, 2007
The North American Free Trade Agreement. A trilateral agreement lowering barriers to trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed in 1993. NAFTA has become the scapegoat for the decline of industrial and manufacturing production in the U.S., eroding labor and environmental standards in all three countries, assaults on political and cultural sovereignty in each country, the urbanization and desolation of the rural economy in Mexico, and a whole host of other social and economic ills.
Apparently many of the previous definitions of this word include some type of observation that NAFTA has induced greater immigration into the U.S. from Mexico, to the detriment of the American "nation" or "way of life". Perhaps these xenophobic and nationalistic views are correct if they assume that the U.S. is a cultural nation that is not able to adapt to changes in its demographic composition. Seen from another perspective, NAFTA could be interpreted as the beginning of the political and economic consolidation of North America, increasing the freedom for all people who inhabit this hemisphere and not merely those who benefit from imposition of a strong foreign policy abroad, with a culture of sloth, consumerism, and self-entitlement at home. True conservatives would hail NAFTA as a wonderful achievement - a removal of state imposed artificial barriers to competition, that sought increases in productivity and efficiency. Unfortunately most conservatives today are afraid of the "evil horde" of "foreign invaders" to the point that they rationalise any further attempts to even the playing field between the U.S. and its neighbors.
2. An imperfect beginning to hemispheric integration, (the American version of the European Union).
Apparently many of the previous definitions of this word include some type of observation that NAFTA has induced greater immigration into the U.S. from Mexico, to the detriment of the American "nation" or "way of life". Perhaps these xenophobic and nationalistic views are correct if they assume that the U.S. is a cultural nation that is not able to adapt to changes in its demographic composition. Seen from another perspective, NAFTA could be interpreted as the beginning of the political and economic consolidation of North America, increasing the freedom for all people who inhabit this hemisphere and not merely those who benefit from imposition of a strong foreign policy abroad, with a culture of sloth, consumerism, and self-entitlement at home. True conservatives would hail NAFTA as a wonderful achievement - a removal of state imposed artificial barriers to competition, that sought increases in productivity and efficiency. Unfortunately most conservatives today are afraid of the "evil horde" of "foreign invaders" to the point that they rationalise any further attempts to even the playing field between the U.S. and its neighbors.
2. An imperfect beginning to hemispheric integration, (the American version of the European Union).
NAFTA brought some jobs to Mexico that pay more than $4 a day, but it turns out that Mexicans want to work for more than that, so they still come to the U.S.
by NacoTaco February 2, 2005
A wonderful fuckadillo that is destroying our country and spreading disease because we are too sissy to stand up for ourselves and fear to be called racist when the issue actually has nothing to do with race, but racist fuckos say it does.
See also dirty mexican produce, aztlan, mecha, and gringo.
See also dirty mexican produce, aztlan, mecha, and gringo.
Dude, I'm so glad that we let undocumented drivers bring trucks dripping with human fecal matter across the border and run over school children while delivering produce that will give you hepatitis so big restaurants can save a dime or two.
by Jaggo March 23, 2004
"would you like to have a nafta with me?" "an north american free trade agreement?" "NO ANOTHER AFTERNOON FUCKIN THAT ASS"
by Will Heeley March 28, 2007
The North American Free Trade Agreement, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. It is likely the soul cause of employment oursourcing to Mexico exacterbating illegal immigration and the eroding of heavy manufacturing, especially the auto industry of the Rust Belt in the name of "cheap labor."
NAFTA is the worst mistake our government couuld have made because it resulted in thousands if not MILLIONS of Americans losing their jobs to Mexico for cheap labor.
by krock1dk@yahoo.com August 18, 2007