Editor, Gazette-Journal:
To his credit, Trump pulled the USA out of TPP, which would have diminished our sovereignty. However, he is misguided about NAFTA; instead of getting out of it, he is talking about renegotiating.
He has appointed, as our trade negotiator, 20-year veteran of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, Robert Lighthizer.
Also, Wilber Ross, Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, has said that TPP should be the foundation on which NAFTA should be renegotiated.
Granted, our trade situation is not good … but NAFTA is not the solution.
Free trade could be written on one page. NAFTA has many pages of regulations, and we would be subject to the rules of a foreign government. This is how the once-free nations of Europe lost their sovereignty. Thinking that it would be good for trade, they joined the EU.
NAFTA would lead to America, Mexico and Canada into the North American Union (NAU), a regional government, and more loss of American sovereignty and elimination of o...