How Can One Man...Be So Out of Touch ? McCain Is !

‘NAFTA WAS A GOOD IDEA’

John McCain Thinks“NAFTA was a good idea….All you’ve got to do is go to
Detroit and see the thousands of trucks lined up every day or to our Southern
border….Have people lost jobs? Yes, they have, and they’re gonna lose jobs.”
— John McCain (Des Moines Register
Interview, 11/27/07)

FACT John McCain voted FOR NAFTA and still supports it, even though the
United States has lost more than 1 million jobs because of NAFTA. (H.R. 3450,
Vote #395, 11/20/93)

FACT John McCain voted FOR CAFTA and SUPPORTS the Colombia Free
Trade Agreement. He calls Colombia a “beacon of hope” despite the murder of more
than 2,500 trade unionists there since 1986. (S. 1307, Vote #170, 6/30/05; McCain press release,
4/11/08; Escuela Nacional Sindical)

FACT John McCain voted FOR normalizing trade relations with China,
allowing China to enter the World Trade Organization despite its ongoing history of workers’
rights violations. The move displaced 1.8 million U.S. jobs and increased our trade deficit
with China. (H.R. 4444, Vote #251, 9/19/00; U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade
Statistics: China; Economy Policy Institute, 10/9/07)

FACT McCain SUPPORTS tax breaks for companies that
ship jobs overseas, voted to weaken and waive Buy American laws
that keep jobs at home and voted against protecting steelworkers’ jobs threatened by illegal
dumping. (S. 1637, Vote #83, 5/5/04; S. 2400, Vote #135, 6/22/04; S. 1050, Vote #191, 5/21/03; H.R. 975,
Vote #178, 6/22/99)
VOTE Nov. 4

McCAIN DOES NOT SHARE American PRIORITIES...