President Obama hopes to join the list of U.S. Presidents who have sold out the American workers to the unfair and immoral practices of transnational corporations through so-called “free trade” pacts that pit American workers against slave wages in the Third World, and erode the sovereignty of U.S. lawmakers to pass laws and regulations that protect worker rights and the environment.  Beyond disappointing, President Obama’s complete turn-around from candidate Obama, who was critical of NAFTA, the first large free trade deal enacted under President Bill Clinton that shipped American factory jobs to Mexico, and led to the surge of Mexican migrant workers driven to the U.S. to look for work as Mexico’s agriculture business was ruined thanks to the flooding of their market by U.S. government subsidized agriculture.

In short, what is called “free trade” by the business community and politicians