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In reply to the discussion: I Simply Do Not Understand Obama's Support Of The TPP. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)88. Sorry, I assumed you could google
Since you apparently can't:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/current/
(Notice both of those are three years old)
(China passed us only 2 years ago; we're pretty much tied right now)
The myth that America is not manufacturing anymore is, well, a myth
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Funny, that period you described is the one period of real wage growth in 40 years
Recursion
Sep 2013
#8
You got a link for that assertion? Are you counting cooking hamburgers as manufacturing?
Th1onein
Sep 2013
#34
Notice you didn't respond to my request to a link for your assertion. Figures.
Th1onein
Sep 2013
#86
You made the assertion, not me. Of course, when flipping HAMBURGERS are counted as manufacturing
Th1onein
Sep 2013
#95
True, you did not post any link to back up your claim that line cooks are counted
Recursion
Sep 2013
#127
The huge factories where McDonalds assembles hamburgers are classed as manufacturing
Recursion
Sep 2013
#89
Does that include McDonald's and Burger King? That statistic isnt helping American
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#76
So manufacturing more isnt necessarily a good thing. We need to protect American
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#93
I don't think we need to protect *manufacturing* jobs anymore than wheat threshing jobs
Recursion
Sep 2013
#94
It may be good for the giant agriculture corporations but not for workers.
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#75
Neither am I stumped: ye shall be known by your works and this and the Keystone Pipeline would
indepat
Sep 2013
#81
If he were doing that, "they" would have been caught and exposed long ago.
truebluegreen
Sep 2013
#80
I like to use the term COSTLY trade agreements.... It's more accurate and costly is the opposite
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#82
Have you bothered to look into the effect that NAFTA had on the jobs in this country?
truedelphi
Sep 2013
#102
They say that he is very smart. Could he be planning for his retirement?
AnotherMcIntosh
Sep 2013
#16
Isn't this the 124on234x234 time were Obama is "supposed" to fuck something up and doesn't?
uponit7771
Sep 2013
#36
I wish people would stop pretending that this is a free trade agreement.
Democracyinkind
Sep 2013
#38
If tariffs magically produced a strong middle class, FDR would have been for them not against them.
pampango
Sep 2013
#107
We didn't need tariffs in the 1930's and 40's. We had a strong union labor movement back then and
B Calm
Sep 2013
#108
People were not making a "livable wage" in the 1930's. FDR lowered tariffs because
pampango
Sep 2013
#113
Everybody loved FDR, but just like Obama, I don't agree with everything he did.
B Calm
Sep 2013
#115
"... the Smoot Hawley Tariff caused almost 0 damage to our economy" seems to be damning with faint
pampango
Sep 2013
#122
I don't understand why a lot of seemingly-liberal Democratic Congresspeople support it either.
Chan790
Sep 2013
#58
Obama may be able to get 'fast track' and the TPP itself through the Senate, but
pampango
Sep 2013
#66
Part of it is racism and ODS but their base has been skeptical of trade for a long time.
pampango
Sep 2013
#71
The deal that Bush had largely crafted years ago, no surprise they supported it.
tritsofme
Sep 2013
#84
23 cents an hour is more than is paid either to Salvation Army for Good Will handicapped workers.
lonestarnot
Sep 2013
#109