In particular, Bill Clinton as president. He srewed the American workers with NAFTA and by allowing China to join the World Trade Organization.
Following NAFTA’s 1994 implementation, thousands of companies—particularly in the automotive, electronics, and aerospace sectors—moved to Mexico or expanded operations there to leverage lower labor costs and proximity to the U.S. market. While it is hard to enumerate the total number of companies, over 18,000 U.S. firms were reported operating there, contributing to massive job shifts.
Following China’s WTO entry in 2001, U.S. manufacturing experienced a major shift, with over 60,000 factories lost between 2001 and 2014, as reported in this PolitiFact article. This surge in manufacturing relocation was driven by lower labor costs and improved market access, resulting in the displacement of approximately 3.7 million U.S. jobs. Prominent firms like Apple and many others moved production to China during this period.
If I remember who signed those two, you think people who were affected by job losses don’t? While I was not affected, it still bothered me so much that I voted for Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election. I still don’t trust Democrats as presidents. I told my wife Obama is not going to keep his promise to the Latinos, he didn’t, never voted for him, never would. Like Clinton, he wanted Republicans to like him. That is my two cents on Clinton and Obama.
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When Barack Obama and I last sat down in 2006, I refused to shake his hand. Today, I still won’t. His announcement last weekend that he would delay executive action on immigration is his fifth broken promise to Latinos on this all-important issue for our community. He has been blind to the pain of the 1,100 deportations our communities face every day and the anguish our families feel as they are swung back and forth as political pawns.
The question for us Latinos — especially the nearly 24 million of us eligible to vote — is, what to do about this? How can we ensure that the fastest-growing demographic in the country isn’t taken for granted by Democrats who purport to be our allies but often dash our hopes in the face of the least bit of political pressure? There are no obvious or even satisfactory answers, but one thing is clear: We’ve been slapped in the face one too many times by this president. And it probably won’t be the last: Obama has a long record of betraying Latinos — and it predates his days in the White House. I’ve seen it up close.
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The first time I set foot in Hickory, a small city at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, the area’s beauty hid its sorrow. Forests rich in oak, maple and pine have given birth to dozens of furniture companies that employ thousands of workers. Hickory’s factories craft the kind of heavy, solid American furniture that is meant to last generations. But everything changed in 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization. The surge in Chinese imports devastated Hickory and other small factory towns like it.
… in 2016 and 2019, the pain from Chinese competition was evident. Workers recounted enduring layoff after layoff. Taking a drive, they would point to the shuttered buildings and abandoned lots where they had once worked. The owners of the furniture factories sheepishly admitted how naïve they were to think they could make more money by producing goods in China and importing them. Too late, they realized they had turned their Chinese suppliers into competitors who sold to U.S. retailers at prices they couldn’t match.
Hickory’s economic woes began in 2001 when U.S. manufacturers shifted production to low-wage Chinese factories. Between that moment and 2012, Chinese imports nearly tripled as a percentage of America’s economic output, which translated into a loss of about 2.4 million jobs. The import wave swept across the country but crashed hardest into smaller cities in the Southeast and Midwest that depended on one or two industries and had relatively few college-educated residents.
The town of Olney in Illinois was a major U.S. bicycle manufacturing hub before Chinese competition forced the maker of Roadmaster bicycles and other bicycle manufacturers there to shutter. West Plains, Mo., saw its shoemakers shut operations. Grand Rapids, Mich., home to many commercial furniture makers, just lost Howard Miller Co. in nearby Zeeland, while Steelcase Inc., which had invested heavily in China, laid off workers in its wooden furniture business, as did other furniture makers in the state. Some bigger cities weren’t spared either. Providence, R.I., lost most of its costume jewelry industry, and San Jose, Calif., lost electronics manufacturing jobs.
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