number of types of jobs created due to nafta one final point it is interesting this administration has no problem figuring out how great trade deals will be for other countries in fact wendy cutler assistant u s trade representative representative was touting the benefits that our trade agreement with korea would offer to korea let me quote her quote n f t a with the united states is predicted to produce significant economic benefits for the korean economy increasing korea 's real g d p by as much as two percent establishing a foundation for korea to achieve per capita income the size thirty thousand dollars boosting exports to the united states by fifteen percent and creating one hundred thousand new jobs so that's u saying here's the nirvana that's going to exist if we can simply do this trade agreement here's what's going to exist for korea ask them what will exist for our country what will be the consequences for our country what are the comparable numbers for the united states and they make no similar projection here and in fact the korean agreement comes to us now not having addressed the issue of the imbalance in the bilateral automobile trade with korea so anyway that it is a case where i hope for haps repetition will someday breed success it is it is a case where i believe we should trade i believe our country should be a leader in trade i believe our leadership ought to be to say we aspire to lift others up in the world not push our workers down we spent a hundred years creating standards safe workplace child labor laws minimum wages a whole series of standards that we ought to be proud of and i believe in our trade agreements we have to aspire to lift others up rather than push ourselves down push our standards down that has regrettably not been the case with nafta it's not been the case with a number of other trade agreements and likely will not be the case with the next four agreements that are going to be brought to the united states senate in my car leagues and i several of us will be offering up a proposal to establish benchmarks and accountability at long long last attached to trade agreements we ought to have some of benchmarks and some accountability for those benchmarks to find out what has happened you can't go on forever with the bad trade agreements you can't one for every one that doesn't work and when we are awash in debt as we are over seven hundred billion dollars a year in trade deficit which inevitably will be repaid by a lower standard of living united states then we're headed towards trouble so we need a better trade strategy one that it encourages trade but one that demands and sis unfair trade for our own economic interests mr president you have the floor  he was forewarned us a long time ago about what nafta is going to do and quite frankly his dire predictions have turned out unfortunately to be true and so when senator dorgan speaks about nafta or any trade agreement an impact on jobs in this country it would do us well to pay attention there's no i i know that knows more about this area then senator dorgan and his amendment is one night i say to him that i can fully support i hope all members of the senate could support as he said it just requires the department of labor to provide congress a with a fuller picture of the impact of the nafta agreement at quite frankly this is key information  ought to have anyway so we can understand the changes to our economy that have occurred since nafta has passed so again i i thank you for it this has been a key issue in my state of iowa i say to my friend from north dakota i remember all the speech he used to give about that maytag repairman never had anything to do because the maytag washer dryers were so good but we've always taken great pride and i would have made that i was the home of maytag has been since the beginning since fred maytag started his business and nial well i hate to tell you but your maytag washers are now coming from mexico and all those great jobs we had these were good jobs good paying jobs a lot of people in the past worked at live there part of their community built good schools educated their kids kids went on some the kids grew up they then went to work at maytag and it was just a wonderful community a wonderful business and they closing in iowa you know we go only what do we do the scramble to get some retraining some job retraining and things like that but the jobs at the before getting are much lower paid jobs they're just not as good and all the manufacturing jobs are now in mexico so now maytag of course maybe i'm being a little chauvinist economy because it was such an aisle institution maytag and to think that now they're just not making them anymore now and they're gone question be glad you know the the town of bryant ohio was enormously proud of its product that was the product that defined bryant ohio and i'll bet you know what it is etch a sketch every kid played with after sketch that little it's a sketch well oxon bryan ohio made it to sketch and every kid played with the right exercise catch gone they just couldn't compete with thirty cent labor so it's made in china and the little red wagon radio flyer the radio flyer little red wagon was made in chicago for one hundred ten years is made by an immigrant who started the company and why was it called radio flyer the little red wagon well this immigrant was fascinated with two things he liked mar coni really fast and marconi so in that radio and he loved airplanes so he decided name it the little red wagon that he crafted in chicago illinois as radio flyer and virtually every kid in this country has written on radio flyer wagons and they were here they were here for one hundred ten years but no more they're now made in china and we could go on at some length and some people would say well don't you understand you to the world has changed for god's sake the world is changing they're going to make these things or you can pay twenty or thirty cents an hour and my question of them is this if that's where the jobs are going to buy the products in this country it seems to me we built standards for a century to provide good wages decent standards decent work opportunities for the american worker and that's what provided the income and the development in the expansion of middle class and gave them the earning power to buy products i just you know i know the senator agrees with me that he agrees with trade and plenty of it we come from agriculture states we need to find a foreign home for what we produce but trade has to be fair i do represent my family do represent a cultural state but we always had a good blend of manufacturing and agriculture manufacturing in my state fan in fact one of the world kept secrets is that i really we need a good industrial but we do a manufacturing policy for this country we don't have one we need a good industrial policy for this country we don't have one and if we don't have some kind of a an industrial policy and and some policy that says here's the kind of manufacturing base that we are going to keep that we're going to protect protect i don't mind using the word protect we're protecting our people if we're going to have a manufacturing base that protects us in the way in  in the area of national security so that we have the manufacturing wherewithal to make the take the raw materials and make them into the into the items that our people need but which will provide us with that goal work for the future all we're going to be doing and that's that's not that's not what made us a great country it is not what's going to sustain us it was all we're going to do just shuffle money around so i think the senator a just been a great leader and yes i we're going to we're going to do something