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You can certainly blame Clinton if you want, but go back and see who in the House and Senate sponsored those deals, and voted for them. Remember that after Clinton's 2nd year, the House and Senate were controlled by Republicans. We can also recall Nixon's famous trip to China that started this ball rolling, or Reagan's promotion of 'free trade' and the effective end of anti-trust efforts in this country.That's one way to spin it. If one company does it, the they can undercut the completion and then the competition must do the same, or go out of business.
And if the tax code had higher tariffs on imports didn't make that profitable, it would have never happened. But Clinton's global free trade initiatives took that away.
I blame our current state of the loss of family wage jobs on president Clinton for all the global free trade deals.
Bottom line is 'free trade' has been a major effort by both Republicans and Democrats for a very long time.