8.8 trillion dollar trade deficit via NAFTA-TPP will continue this deficit.

[midnight]

1 million jobs lost via NAFTA

Vietnam minimum wage pays 56 cents an hour. Under TPP they will be able to get American Federal Contracts financed by tax payers and make Americans compete for jobs that will pay 56 cents an hour.

Make sure to note any elected official that says feeding and educated the middle class and poor adds to the deficit, and then remind them of the trade deficit.

[liberalmike27]

1. Foreign investment

It's a great thing, rich people opening up factories, hiring foreign workers. If I were rich, I'd consider doing it. But not to product products, with near-slave-labor, to ship across the globe, for some rich class of folks to do.

Products should be produced as closely to where they are to be used, as possible. Likewise, if you're going to open up a shop, it should be to produce food, or clothes cheaply, or some other product to be consumed right in that country. You should figure out what can be used, built, what service is needed, and open up a shop to do those things, not create an export based business.

And these other countries, instead of being dumping grounds for our pollution, as they often end up being, should pass their own regulatory devices, to keep us from polluting their countries, and minimum wages, and safety--weaker countries should get together, and decide what these basic regulations are, so stronger economic powers won't take advantage of the "least" tightly regulated countries, offering similar standards, to protect their own present, and future populations.

[midnight]

2. I like your idea of opening up shop in a foreign country to provide a service to them...

[Enthusiast]

3. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

NAFTA changed the nation for the worse. The TPP and TTIP will do the same only worse.

Why would President Obama attempt to foist this on the American working class? WTF?

[djean111]

4. You answered your own question - because Obama is pushing this.

The nasty details are secret for a good reason.

[midnight]

6. I raise your WTF and wonder why only a few elected officials are speaking out

against this tool that will replicate privilege that only the elite will enjoy…

[Enthusiast]

7. Yes. Why are so few silent? Not only on the TPP issue but on other critical issues.

We seldom hear Democrats speaking up as they did in the past. Again, WTF?

[midnight]

9. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has called it "the largest corporate power grab you never heard of."

He's right. Over 14 months--from January 2013 through February 2014--TPP was never covered in any detail by ABC, CBS or NBC.

It's time to let the news networks know that a big, secret trade deal that has mobilized thousands of activists is a story that needs to be covered.
Sign FAIR's petition now. Tell ABC, CBS and NBC that the Trans Pacific Partnership--and the opposition to it--should be news.

http://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/no-more-media-silence-on-tpp/


Here is a link I found while trying to figure out why all the silence.

[KoKo]

5. Recommend!

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

- From partial to full restraints.......

From one Dem.....



...to another.

[midnight]

11. Are you saying TPP is a bigger shackle?

[DeSwiss]

12. It is a political device intended to create a soft form of fascism for the benefit of corporations.

- Some how or another the current psychopaths who run corporations got it into their heads that it's their fucking planet. But I've got news for them, it's not.

It is not by accident that two ''Democratic Presidents'' have delivered us unto the Philistines with these trade agreements -- with promises of good times (and jobs) to come. The question is why are so many falling for it? Are they idiots or under some kind of drugs?

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

~Jack London

[midnight]

13. Thank you for your clear insight.

[midnight]

10. Union Pres. speculates no talk on TPP because it's to complicated to say lower wages.

and lost jobs.

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[midnight]

14. TPP and RTW are equal in how they destroy jobs and wages...

[midnight]

15. TPP reward authoritarian regimes like Vietnam that systematically violate human rights.

The State Department, the U.S. Department of Labor, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have all documented Vietnam’s widespread violations of basic international standards for human rights. Yet, the TPP would reward Vietnam’s bad behavior by giving it duty free access to the U.S. market.


http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/31/ten-reasons-why-tpp-must-be-defeated