LOL, where are you getting that I am saying trade deficits are a good thing? I am saying that NAFTA is a good deal for the USA and has prevented a lot of jobs from being lost. I am saying I do not think NAFTA is to blame for the deficits. If you keep up with what is going on you would see where NAFTA is working out fine. If you would even study what NAFTA actually is you might not have to get far into it to see that much of the negative feelings toward NAFTA are based on ignorance.
If you want to pull out charts take a loook at unemployement data from 1993 till 2008. No, NAFTA is not one of the major reasons we had low unemployemnt during any of those years and it sure as heck ain't the reason for the high unemployment figures we have been seeing the last 18 months but NAFATA did do its fair share to help provide jobs and improve the economy and when the economy went to the crapper it could have been worse without NAFTA.
As for your charts it was an easy cop out for a lot of companies to blame NAFTA instead of bad planning and management for their failures. I am also convinced from what I have seen that NAFTA has created more jobs than what critics claim it cost.