Joe Klein - who Glenn Greenwald has shown to be one of the most irresponsible journalists in contemporary American history - lays another egg [1]:
"NAFTA has been a wash, creating as many jobs as have been lost."
According to government data [2], NAFTA has cost America at least 1 million jobs. This is not new information - but it still never ceases to amaze me that a high-paid journalist at any publication is allowed to simply lie without as much as a nod to the actual facts. But then, I guess Joe has neither the time nor the journalistic background [3] to figure out who's right: the desperate bourgeois-pleasing Clintonites whispering in his ear, or the actual hard data that comprise those pesky things called facts.
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[1] http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2007/12/today_in_iowa_2.html
[2] http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20061004
[3] http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/26/klein/