| curtisghall said: mexico was fucking us anyways, same thing with china |
| jcmmnx said: The Mexican President is a cartel puppet. Trump isn't going to let our country be fucked over any more. Get used to having a real leader. |
5+ million jobs in the US are dependent on Mexico though.
" trade with Mexico creates approximately 4.9 million jobs in the United States. In other words, one out of 29 American jobs depends on preserving an economic relationship with the U.S.’s southern neighbor. Researchers came up with this 4.9 million figure by calculating three economic shifts that would likely occur if trade with Mexico ended: the number of American jobs that are involved in producing exports to Mexico, which would be lost; the number of jobs that would return to the United States to produce the previously imported goods; and the number of jobs that would disappear if the money American consumers and companies saved from buying lower-cost imports were gone."
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/mexico-nafta-trade/510008/
US can hurt itself by hurting Mexico as well.
