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In reply to the discussion: Still don't think he's a used-car salesman? [View all]PatrickforO
(14,952 posts)the United States lost nearly 800,000 jobs, many good jobs in manufacturing, because of NAFTA. Now, based on what we now KNOW about NAFTA and the deleterious effect it had on American jobs, let me ask you two questions based on your assertion that the TPP 'will not be as bad' as some assert:
1. If TPP is such a good thing, why do the American people not get to see it prior to Congress voting on it, and why aren't members of Congress allowed to take notes or make copies of pages when 'allowed' to view it, and finally why was the 'fast track' necessary?
2. If as Obama tells us, the TPP has 'strong' protections for workers (which it does NOT, as I have read what is available through WikiLeaks) then WHY is a TAA training program necessary to help Americans who lose jobs as a result of its passage?
Free trade is bad for working Americans, and exploitative of workers in third world countries (see the NUMEROUS articles about Nike and its Indonesian workforce).
I like Obama and actually volunteered for both his campaigns, BUT he is TOTALLY wrong about the TPP, and equally wrong about how he's trying to 'sell' it to us without us even having seen it.