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What are needed are dramatic changes [of the kind called for in this book].” </div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Elizabeth Warren and others are very comfortable with much larger role for legitimate public policies. <br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font><a href="http://www.thestand.org/?p=77428" class="">This article ran today</a> on The Stand, the news web site for the Washington State Labor Council.<br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://www.thestand.org/2019/06/making-sense-of-nafta-and-its-replacement/" class="">http://www.thestand.org/2019/06/making-sense-of-nafta-and-its-replacement/</a></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Stan Sorscher<br class=""><a 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Neoliberalism responds with its universal prescription — make business succeed and well-being will trickle down to the rest of us. </span><br class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.4px;">NAFTA is a direct reflection of those principles. In free trade orthodoxy, investor interests are more important than public interests. The NAFTA model blurs national identities and national boundaries, devalues the idea of public interest, and merges our domestic economy into the global economy</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">…</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"> </span></div><div class=""><font color="#505050" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span class="" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.4px;">Democracies settle such questions in elections. Candidates for 2020 are just now proposing serious national strategies for the economy and environment. We will see more. Trying to “fix” NAFTA incrementally is futile. First, we need to see national policies that will rebuild our economy, raise living standards, and improve well-being. 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