Friday, March 10, 2017

I really like this article because it is a very persuasive article that analyzes the steps we can take to solve the worker's dislocation and relocation issues, rather than just a simple discharge of NAFTA. The potential audience is a group of rational individuals who are disappointed about our current economic stress, career market, increasing living expense, and would like the government to implement something good, instead of constantly focusing on the bad ones. The audience should be calm, not radical and lash their frustration and anger to only one devilish thing. He is neutral because he didn’t focus on how bad NAFTA is, or how much profit NAFTA brought us. The dislocation is not only caused by a Trade Agreement. The main cause is the competitive economic environment, globalization, and automation. The author, Karen A. Tramontano is chief executive officer of Blue Star Strategies, LLC and president of the Global Fairness Initiative. Blue Star Strategies is an organization that offers advice service, such as political intelligence and risk assessments, and promotes trade and economic integration to corporations and government. It is a very credible background and it makes sense that he can list so many practiced and feasible suggestions to solve the trade and unemployed problems. I strongly agree with ideas like “Rejecting trade agreements outright will not end global competition for U.S. workers who will continue to confront corporate relocation and dislocation”, because the main cause is still there, even if you cut the fire, the fuse remains and will most likely lead to another conflagration.