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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 2837738" data-attributes="member: 5412">NAFTA won't exist if he has any say about it. Been kind of a failure anyway in some areas. The manufacturing company I worked for 20 years ago lost a contract to build the huge motor housings used in building the dump trucks used in strip pit mining. It went to Mexico for a year, and due to quality control issues, it came back to our plant in Ponca City at a higher cost than before mexico got it. We made good money from that. 5 years before that, the manufacturing company that I worked for got a contract to build drill bits for PIMA, the Mexican government sponsored oil company. We had to build a plant in Mexico City, and send machinery there to build drill bits because the Mexican government had a protectionist tarrif that prevented drill bits from being manufactured anywhere other than within Mexico. I spent lots of time there training their folks in how to maintain the CNC machinery. Didn't take but a couple of years of failed quality to make the Mexican government decide to have their drill bits built in Ponca City again. So yes, we have lost a lot of manufacturing in this town to NAFTA, and got some back. NAFTA will go.</blockquote>