NAFTA. You've heard of it but you are not sure what it is. Me either. In the 1990s the "North American Free Trade Agreement" opened the borders of all of North America to the flow of products and money. That sounds good doesn't it? It was good... if you were the wealthy of the North American continent. Not so good, if you were a small farmer whose family had been making a decent living on a family farm for generations...and that farm stood in the way of a huge agri-business gobbling up your land to set up a huge mechanized farm to bring cheap produce to a Wal-mart or Super-Target near you. Or say your little family farm was sitting on a stockpile of precious minerals....those could be mined for millions to improve the lives of "first-world" folks even further. So, you have been kicked off your land...you have got to find a place where there is work and money to feed your family.....
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