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James Traficant: “somebody is inhaling. Since NAFTA, American TVs and typewriters are made in Mexico; American telephones are made in…”

On the recordApril 21, 1998
somebody is inhaling. Since NAFTA, American TVs and typewriters are made in Mexico; American telephones are made in Singapore; computers are made in China and Japan. And after all this, the White House wants to expand this NAFTA madness to all of Central America. Now, here is how I predict it will work. Central America will get jobs and investment. Uncle Sam will get a pink slip, training voucher, and two free lunches to Taco Bell. Beam me up. This is not free trade. This is a joke, a dirty joke on American workers. I yield back another record trade deficit and 1.4 million American workers who filed individual bankruptcy in America last year, another record I might add. Think about it.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Criticizing NAFTA and its impact on American workers during a floor speech.

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