when nafta was approved. and people made all kinds of claims about how the kinds of jobs that would be created and so forth. the trade surplus evaporated almost overnight. we now run a very, very healthy trade deficit with mexico. never been in surplus since that time. every independent study we have seen that has analyzed jobs, shows there has been a net loss in jobs from the nafta agreement. again, totally like almost every other trade agreement. we don't say in the book that we shouldn't do these things. what we say is we need to enforce reciprocity with our trading partners, whether they be mexico, japan, china, or this ongoing gutting of good-paying jobs is going to continue. no not just in manufacturing but the whole service sector as well, and that's the crux of part of the new book, trying to get people to wake up and realize we need to have a different policy. we need to have a different approach or we're going to continue to lose these jobs. >> host: in "the betrayal of the american dream" barlett a

russia's top or producer ross nafta is reportedly getting set to boost oil deliveries to china according to com as a newspaper talks on the deal will take place at a forthcoming meeting between its management and china's national petroleum corporation next week to have denied these reports barco fun the meeting will take place medina koch in a van has all the details from the headquarters in moscow. there are unconfirmed reports now that ross nafta is thinking about increasing the ax rudolfo crude oil to trying to buy ten a million tons spare year from the current a fifteen million tonnes that china receives annually and now the report was also quoting sources saying that ross nafta once to ship additional crude oil of a via the kazakstan pipeline and a russian producers stop using this route because i'm stunned pipeline shortly off through the two thousand and nine aligned off of the new rebuilds e.s.b. all of that i felt was already mantra and now x. would say that the only reason that stands behind this move behind the search market speculations as that ross now is now trying to you i

after years of the largest russian oil exporter to china and back in two thousand and nine russia nafta and c n p c china national petroleum company signed a deal of for the supply of fifteen million tonnes of crude oil a plant yeah but we're it offered twenty years and a backing generally two thousand and eleven rushes rossley up to. transit operator transplant started supplying these or crude me up to one of the new revealed to e.s.p. your group now yes we all yes it is it is to be rare pacific ocean pipeline that can actually use a beer in all fields or to the pacific port of cars which is located very close to the chinese border and currently the asian consumer receive somewhere around three hundred thousand barrels off good world per day so it would be about what exactly is in it for us nafta and already the largest exporter of oil to to china so what's the big deal. well there are unconfirmed reports now that russia now after years of thinking. about increasing the ax rudolfo crude oil to trying up by ten a million ton spare year from the current a fifteen million tons of that chi

. >> guest: you are right on the nafta business. we go back over a long time showing trade agreements before that and what everybody said they would do, how they would make a market share for workers at home and so on down the line. naphtha is one of the most dramatic examples of how people were sold a bill of goods. on the basis that this will be a great thing to send exports to mexico and at the time we actually had a trade surplus with mexico when it was first approved and people may all kinds of claims about the jobs that would be created and so forth. we run a healthy trade deficit, we have never been in surplus since that time. every surplus that has analyzed jobs showed there has been a loss of jobs from the nafta agreement. what we say is we need to enforce reciprocity with trading partners whether they be mexico or japan or china or this ongoing gutting of good paying jobs that continues not just in manufacturing but into the whole service sector as well. that is the crux of the new book, trying to get people to wake up and

[laughter] look at briefly what has happened since nafta. after the initial the battle in december of 1994, -- debacle in december of 1994, the mexican economy has had a mediocre evolution. mexico could have grown much faster, but what happened? basically, all the reforms that were going around nafta, privatization of a bloated and sector that were producing at close to 20% deficit -- you had to get rid of that to have a functioning state. all of those reforms were very successful. but then stopped. after the debacle, he spent the first three years of his administration and digging himself out of the wholhole. he had the brilliant idea of trying to pass a structural reforms when the pri no longer controlled congress. that was a serious mistake. none of those reforms passed the political reform passed, -- passed. the political reform passed. the right-wing opposition which had been the key element of crafting the previous reforms did exactly the opposite. in 1997 to 2000. i contend also that his idea of how to become anything but the bloat of

if you go back to the days of when we were told about nafta, we were told nafta would solve the immigration issue from mexico, but in reality what it did is depress mexican wages, depress mexican opportunity. and those people came here in search of a better life. so what we've been fighting, the labor movement has been fighting for proper immigration reform now for going on almost 20 years. and i think this is going to be a tremendous opportunity for people to come out of the shadows, to have a full life, to be able to stand up, you know. we've tried to organize it. i don't know if you've seen it. we organized car wash workers in the los angeles area. some of these car wash workers were undocumented immigrants, and sometimes at the end of the week the boss would tell them that they owed the boss money, because they used supplies. and we fought that fight, and those workers joined our union. now we're doing the same thing in wisconsin with palermo pizza. undocumented workers in palermo threatened to fire them all, and we've got an unfair labor practice case going forward. i think in many, ma

the return to manifest destiny with nafta and the japanese co-prosperity sphere with the asian pacific economic community i mean this is sheer absurdity and. i have socialist tendencies myself but the call the eurasian union and what russia is today the result of unification is so far from the truth in a couple of sentences what is russia doing in its neighborhood this is a very natural in this world the globalized neoliberal fast moving twenty first century world regionalization this is a natural tendency economic and political defensive tendency we see it occurring all over the world europe is the pioneer after the united states south america mirka sore. the eurasian union is only natural because of the cultural the historical the language the infrastructure. and actually it's largely for security reasons to the well there's a way as you point out it russia doesn't want to recreate the soviet union because the soviet union cost russia a law school and i do you see really that would be the previous speaker because i didn't find anything new in that statement i don't think it was a ful

which the all the easy go did south africa was ripped is it can imagine mexico also with passage of nafta under clinton it allowed for north american miners encounter particularly to go down to mexico on a new trading engagement and reopen mines silver mines and dormant for years and they get anything modern technology or track and some are ok there's still recovery on the ground but seven million ounces but it's being bought up by the industry and we're running out of so around there's that worse at what point do we have a silver shortage crisis because you're saying two things there you're saying that supply is pretty ample but you're also saying there are shortages bottlenecks developing is it a distribution problem where we're at this point does it become we see the evidence that you know i think the what will happen is there is a massive potential demand for suv which is why we think the process will rise much and as the price rises the mining industry will respond to rising prices by salting to find some of the surplus stool is still possible to mine in mexico because as you rightly

africa all the easy go did south africa was ripped is it can you mention mexico also with passage of nafta under clinton for north american miners encounter particularly to go down to mexico on a new trading engagement and reopen mines silver mines and dormant for years and they get anything modern technology to track and sell for ok there's a there's still recovery on the ground but seven million ounces but it's being bought up by the industry and we're running out of so around there's that worst at what point do we have a silver shortage crisis because you're saying two things are you saying that supply is pretty ample but you're also saying there are shortages bottlenecks developing is it a distribution problem where we're at this point does it become we see the evidence that the what will happen is there is massive potential demand for so which is why we think the process will rise much and as the price rises the mining industry will respond to rising prices by salting to mine some of the. stew is still possible to mine in mexico because as you rightly say when the spanish will mines w

trade policy specifically the nafta free trade agreement the captive free trade agreement the more recent korea free trade agreement and in those agreements the big winners are the multinational u.s. corporations some workers fair fairly well many workers found that they lost their jobs and that their wages were suppressed so in general it's sort of a you know the rich get richer and the poor get poorer type agreement so these major corporations would be able to you know outsource their those jobs to other countries a little easier some of the workers in this country. could see there are jobs lost that's what you're saying absolutely and that's what we're afraid of and we think that free trade can be great and could be really beneficial for creating economic growth for spring new development new investment new jobs but it really depends on the rules and if the rules for this agreement really follow the rules of past agreements it will do that and when it does particularly for investment and for offshoring is it gives a foreign investor rights in a country that a domestic investor doesn't

you're calling nafta and a buffer to pricing. >> i am. we have a spending and debt problem here.conversations about this and really come to terms on it, we are not going to survive. we are running up debt larger than it -- may be more than it is possible to ever repay. that is the point. we need to connect up with some reality year, and that is the point be handed. adam: george burnett, thank you for joining yes. a green-colored smoothly. give me a coca-cola. >> this is a grace movie. stop on out. great beyond what you. we have -- we do a lot of fun things. adam: give me real sugar and caramel coloring. thank you very much. it is a bird, a plane. no, wait. it is a snowmobile. a new extreme winter sport is taking place. can he still o his tricks? details on my snowmobiles are going airborne. you can neverave too much "money." officemax has exactly the ink... your business needs... at prices that keep you...out of the red. this week get a bonus $15 itunes gift card with any qualifying $75 ink purchase. find thousands of big deals now... at officemax. from constant contact emg reach

expand world trade with gap and nafta.rket economy when clinon left office than when he took office. the one bad thing he did on tax rates is offset other good policy. but if all you are talking about in isolation is just the effective tax policy, there is no question in my mind that there's a reason why low tax economies like hong kong and singapore grow faster than we grow. >> i have a question for you. do you know which area of the economy will be his first? entertainment, dining? buying houses? something of charity? >> well, spending and lifestyle is the last thing that they touch. and sort of order of priority, they wall up the lifestyle. that doesn't get touched. retirement income, family. what they pass to the kids, that doesn't get touched. i think it is charity. >> me too. >> and that's the issue -- >> saddest thing of all. >> you -- mandy, stop acting like you hob-nob with the big deals, because you know you do. >> i can hob-nob with the -- >> every single person i talked to, and these are. jerks, not heartless i

anybody to look at -- you know, there's certain things, if they are a member, a good sign -- >> host: nafta, the national association of personal financial advisers. i'm a member. >> guest: i know. you have to be careful because they have schedules too, but for the most part, one of the things that goes on in the industry is people don't have questions. nay -- they often get to the quote advisers by not -- not by doing diligent research, but the guy at the country club, and it's my next door neighbor or someone who presented at my children's school or the old aged facility, and it's -- so people are discouraged from asking questions because these people come at you as though they are your friend, and, of course, you don't have to ask friends hard questions about, so, are you acting in the best interest? how are you acting in the best interest, and are you working to the my disturb ri standard? >> host: they meet professionals in free dinners. anything wrong with a free steak and wine in exchange for a sales spiel. do you advice against going in the first place? >> guest: if there was one th

the republicans mainly were running congress, when we had things like nafta, china most favored nation status. the wto, the world trade organization. all these trade deals that people claimed were going to bring jobs to the united states and in every case the jobs left. >> up next, jefferson morally, row counts the first race riot in washington, d.c. which took place in august of 1835 and two subsequent criminal trials tried by d.c.'s district attorney, francis scott key. mr. key, who authored "the star-spangled banner", defended splafry in his prosecution and sought capital punishment only to be thwarted by the alleged victim, who's husband william thornton, designed the u.s. capitol. this is just over 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. for that nice introduction and thank you to majors and quinn hosting this event. i suggested this to eat than back in the winter, there was never anything less than enthusiastic about having me. this was always my destination when i came to a minneapolis bookstore. i am glad i landed here. i want to tell you a little bit about the book. i will read a

67 in nafta. 65 also in livermore, pleasanton.warm day as we take a look at the sierras also on seasonably warm with 50s. temperatures will stay above average as we take a look in our extended forecast locally florida a bit more cloud coverage expected for saturday, sunday and they cool down on sunday. we could see some warm air filtering into the bay area. there is the chance of showers that will start to break down by wednesday will keep you posted as we get closer now, let us check out your small bomb ski report fan not any new snowfall to fall fallfish www.snowbomb.com >> reaction, after reaction of the anti-take comments on a quarterback second string quarterback. he recently apologized. the 49ers have distanced themselves and we will continue to keep you updated with people leonora for fifth kron 4 facebook thing packag i know thi made a comment, i would be fired. as he should be careful if he has the right to speak his mind we all have our separate opinions. to a people get to defend someone comes to gays. he certainly is e

they voted for things like nafta and no child left behind. what does the business roundtable stand to gain if social security is privatized? how much profit as wall street make if social security is privatized? host: you were talking about entitlements. guest: try to rephrase what he is asking. social security goes to individuals. you looke at greece and some of the other european nations and their support programs for people. they are being slashed. we're seeing is a pal these into bankruptcy -- we are seeing municipalities into bankruptcy y. that means they are going to be reduced. that impacts individuals. i think the united states should act earlier. some future congress will have to act on that. your options get fewer and fewer and uglier and unclear. -uglier and uglier. we should be pushing little by little. maybe a month every so often an increase in the eligibility when you're first eligible for social security. it was a different set of mortality tables when it was first designed. use the correct calculation for cost of living. all t

degrees is expected for ocean bridge. 50 degrees for downtown san francisco. 51 degrees is expected for naftaof you who are going to the 49ers games it will be cold. the kickoff is at 5:00 p.m.. to >> it will be another cold night. it will be upper 20s for santa rosa and upper 20s through vallejo and concord. the 7 day around the bay shows that we will continue to see these chilly mornings ahead. off the highs and lows will be in the '50s. the weekend may be a little bit of a warm-up. the animals will get down to about 34 degrees. >> here is a weather related story for you. a mud slide in the berkeley hills closed a building and portions of a major road near the lawrence berkeley lab. off the hill started sliding last month and it seemed to be getting worse. the lab closed a macmillan road and building 46 which is the workplace for ministrations staffers. the lab install pumps and they dug trenches to take the pressure off the hillside. officials say that it is unclear how long that hill will continue to slide. but, until it is stabilized, the road in the building will be off-limits. >> resid

talk about, you know, the president and the dream act, that he circumvented congress and signed the nafta agreement with truck drivers. he said then that he is no king and that the congress and senate would have to do something. he went and had an signed an executive order which is for foreign nationals which was a job back for foreign nationals which is the only job act he has ever done. that was criminal. -- those were criminals. these were not united states citizens which is a week, the people. we need to get our house cleaned up, stop arming foreigners all over the world and keep our gun rights for the american citizens. guest: in terms of immigration, as i mentioned earlier, there is that lasting controversy about whether president obama could do, as he did, and say that certain federal laws do not have to be enforced. that raises separation of powers questions. as to the constitutionality of what the president is moving towards in the immigration, this week, it appears he has bipartisan support. it appears congress is going to pass significant immigration reform and that reform look

so i would like to see a conversation around nafta. >> bill: and also i think a point you make is aboutoth on this side of the border and south of the border that the real answer in reducing the number of people fleeing to the united states for jobs is to make mexico safer and put more jobs down there. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ >> bill: thirty-three minutes after the hour now on this thursday, january 31st. good to see you today, and thank you for joining us on the "full court press," coming to you live all across this great land of ours on your local progressive talk radio station and still on current tv and we're in our n

clinton continues like obama to speak in that "i feel your pain" language, while he gave us nafta, while he deregulated the fcc, he destroyed welfare and 70% of the recipients were children. from doing the business of corporations, he got corporate money. by the 1990's, the democratic party had fund-raising parity with the republicans. when obama ran in 2008, he got more. i look at other countries like germany. the labor party in germany never pulled more than 5%, but it is a counterweight, force to protect labor. the reason i supported ralph nader and voted green is not because i believe anyone is going to win, but ralph is right. we need to build five, 10, 15 million people who begin to put pressure on the democratic party from the other side. this policy of voting for the least worst, voting in elections were the primary emotion is fear of the other. it is fear that homosexual couples will teach your children in kindergarten, whatever wacky idea that have. romney was a corporate -- where did obamacare come from? it was first put in practice by romney in massachusetts and then it was a

in 1993, president clinton passed nafta. in 1996, president clinton and the republican party got rid of the glass-steagall act which separated the investment and commercial banks that have been in effect for 66 years. in 1997, the democratic president and a republican congress allowed china in to the world trade agreement with free trade to the united states. these things should be brought up. we need to bring back glass- steagall. most importantly, our country has to simplify this tax system. i have dealt with the irs for five years. the irs will tell you they do not even understand it. they say is over 72,000 pages long now. it is just ridiculous. if i was king for a day, i would some in congress and within 30 days they would give me a federal tax system they could recite or i would charge them with treason. i preach the time and i appreciate c-span. -- i appreciate the time. host: houston, taxes? -- texas? one last time. caller: i had my phone on mute, excuse me. host: you are supposed to put the television on huge, not t

seems along the way the democrats have also had blood on their hands in being involved with this, such naftainton signing afte we could go on and on, but we don't have time for that. do you think that democrats will ever see that they to have blood on their hands with conspiring with lobbyists? i hope that will happen, but i really don't think so. where we are now is at a concerted effort to get us to this point by wealthy old men. in the end, we have to ask ourselves the question -- should anybody ever have enough wealth to buy the government? should these people have to take responsibility for the losses, personal losses the american people have encountered because of their efforts to do this? host: andy kroll? guest: interesting point the caller made, and thanks for the call, about conservative efforts dating back to the 1970's -- you can draw a three line from that point where we are today. the 2010 elections, we had died in the will conservatives like scott walker of wisconsin elected to office, john t. said in ohio, rick scott in florida, and elsewhere, pursuing a conservative agenda.

clinton continued like obama to speak in that field european language while he gave us nafta, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1948 act and while he d regulated the fcc, allowing corporations like mur dhaka by the way who is apparently about to buy the "los angeles times" and "the chicago tribune." he deregulated the banking system and welfare and under the traditional welfare system, 70% of the recipients for children. and for doing the business of corporations, he got corporate money so that by the 1990's the fund-raising democratic party of the fund-raising parties with the republicans and when obama ran in 2008 he got more to it and i look at other countries like germany. the labor party in germany never polls more than 5%. but it is a counterweight to read it is a force to protect labor and the reason that i supported him is and because anybody is going to win. but i think that he's right. what we needed to do is build five, tenet of 15 million people who begin to put pressure on the democratic party from the other side, who draw the line and say that's enough. we

talk about, you know, the president and the dream act, that he circumvented congress and signed the naftament with truck drivers. congress and the senate would have to do something. he went and had an signed an executive order which is for foreign nationals which was a job back for foreign nationals which is the only job act he has ever done. that was criminal. these were not united states citizens which is a week, the people. we need to get our house cleaned up, stop arming foreigners all over the world and keep our gun rights for the american citizens. guest: in terms of immigration, as i mentioned earlier, there is that lasting controversy about whether president obama could do, as he did, and say that certain federal laws do not have to be enforced. that raises separation of powers questions. as to the constitutionality of what the president is moving towards in the immigration, this week, it appears he has bipartisan support. it appears congress is going to pass significant immigration reform and that reform looks like it will fall much of what president obama once. . wants. if that

there's no fiscal stability, because no one is investing in the united states, due to nafta.he american people want a flat tax. i don't care what you say. you as a democrat and the person before you, who i wanted to speak to, have to realize how angry the american people really are. they don't want programs cut. they don't want social security raided, as it has been. we know what's going on. as far as gun-control, we need mental health clinics, not gun control. host: let's go to congressman delaney. guest: thank you, rose. i have a sense as to how angry the american people are. i am new to politics. i spent my career in the private sector. i think i come to the table with a great sensitivity for how people outside government think about government. i think the american people fundamentally understand that the cost of doing nothing is not nothing. that's what we really have in congress. if congress has not acted for the good of the country. they have not done what they were required to do, which is to pass laws, help the common good of the united states. they're really not don

like itt like to say -- or not, then it north american nafta trade agreement, we need highways and wed pipelines and we need larose running north and south in this country. if you look at the interstate system -- and i watched it being built. i drove a truck in the early 1960's. if you look at the center of the country, it is strategic militarily, strategic transportation-wise and not only do we need the pipeline running through nebraska, kansas, and wherever down the midwest but we need major, major rail systems running north and south in this country. host: we will leave it there to get a response. guest: he raised a lot of issues. the first part of the technical thects -- i don't recall diameter or the flow but there was a lot of discussion of the materials. because the original plan was to use a new, fenner albeit stronger -- and there was a lot of concerns that it was not a pipeline you want to experiment on, so they went back to the usual standards of thickness and materials. op-ed this pipeline has been reviewed by pipeline and hazardous materials agency. and it conforms to all

clinton continues like obama to speak in that "i feel your pain" language, while he gave us nafta, while he deregulated the fcc, he destroyed welfare and 70% of the recipients were children. from doing the business of corporations, he got corporate money. by the 1990's, the democratic party had fund-raising parity with the republicans. when obama ran in 2008, he got more. i look at other countries like germany. the labor party in germany never pulled more than 5%, but it is a counterweight, force to protect labor. the reason i supported ralph nader and voted green is not because i believe anyone is going to win, but ralph is right. we need to build five, 10, 15 million people who begin to put pressure on the democratic party from the other side. this policy of voting for the least worst, voting in elections were the primary emotion is fear of the other. it is fear that homosexual couples will teach your children in kindergarten, whatever wacky idea that have. romney was a corporate -- where did obamacare come from? it was first put in practice by romney in massachusetts and then it was a