Originally Posted by theking

I remember that President Clinton said that NAFTA...in the short term...would have negative effects...but would have positive effects in the long term. I never heard him specify what time frame he considered to be short term. It has been over 10 years and it has definitely had negative effects. I was opposed to it at the time as I could not understand how it could possibly ever have positive effects and I still do not understand how it could.