How will Barack Obama as president affect YOUR business?

At one point when it was reported that Obama was going to rework NAFTA I saw a glimmer of hope for North America.....but alas that was just campaign rhetoric.

In my humble opinion the only hope for the 2 largest countries on the North American continent is to pullout and squash the free trade agreements......yupper back to all the import and customs duties on goods, but also meaning the rise of Made in U.S., or Made in Canada labels where we support our own countries and not those in other parts of the world.

When the first trade agreement came in, I watched my job disappear, along with 50 others as the plant closed within days of the passing of the agreement...and then it was just a domino affect..that increaded speed when NAFTA was signed.

Industry moved manufacturing to Mexico and that was supposed to be good...all it accomplished was the attrition of thousands of jobs in US and Canada.

This household has a moratorium on all goods produced or coming from Mexico - including food stuffs.

A few years back the news carried a blurb on products crossing the border into the US from Mexico...and there right on the screen and easily readable was a shipment of produce in boxes coming in from Mexico with the boxes marked Product of California.

I find it very aggravating to say the least when I go into a grocery store for a can of mushrooms for example, and the only thing on the shelf is from China...especially when we have a thriviing mushroom industry right here in Canada.....or we are in peak produce season, and the only green onions available are from Mexico.

When Obama made that statement about redoing NAFTA I saw a glimmer of hope for home grown industry to come alive again...for the growth of new companies and local employment once again making the 2 countries strong and stimulating the economy...but guess it just isn't going to happen.

And now the steel industries are closing up....too much competition and imports from overseas...did you ever wonder what is going to happen when say war breaks out with China in the future and these 2 countries of ours have to go back to mass producing war equipment...and there are no steel producing plants on this continent....and we have to ask our enemy - the one we are at war with - if they will please sell us the steel so we can build the ships, planes, tanks, and weapons to use against them.

I would gladly start paying the old customs duties for goods coming into Canada oce again if it meant the end to the free trade agreements.

Will business do well under Obama...I choose to remain optomistic, but in the long run, and in the back of my mind, I see nothing but disaster waiting to happen for the general masses...but being the astute entrepreneurs we should be, we should be changing our game plan accordingly and still be able to survive.