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Why all the fuss over these trade deals?
Wouldn't it just be so much simpler to just say....hey, here's what I have for sale, what have you got? Why do we need a deal, a law, to say something as simple as, "OK, let's buy and sell stuff to these people."
Im sure close to a $170 billion trade deficit is a good thing!
Yayyy! Chinese TV's!.... you know that a trade deficit is when we convince others to give us televisions, food, automobiles, and the like in return for little pieces of green paper, yes?
Yayyy! Chinese TV's!
But, thats not my point...
Results of trade deficit: massive job outsourcing, and less exports to the countries we are trading with. I thought NAFTA was supposed to lessen our trade deficit and increase exports? Opposite occurred.
To be fair, your short declarations haven't been meaningful, either. Simply saying so does not make it so. Some deeper substance would be helpful.
Yea just ask these people:
Look at the enrichment!
Im sure close to a $170 billion trade deficit is a good thing!
Yayyy! Chinese TV's!
But, thats not my point...
Results of trade deficit: massive job outsourcing, and less exports to the countries we are trading with. I thought NAFTA was supposed to lessen our trade deficit and increase exports? Opposite occurred.
In YER wildest dreams.
McConnell did not allow votes today on
1. unfair labor practices,
2. child labor,
3. currency manipulation;
4. help for workers losing their jobs
The TEA party in the House will block TPP .
Agreed. They are better off than they would have been otherwise.
Yayyy! Chinese TV's!
But, thats not my point...
Results of trade deficit: massive job outsourcing, and less exports to the countries we are trading with. I thought NAFTA was supposed to lessen our trade deficit and increase exports? Opposite occurred.
They are so much better off they now come here to the US!
That's better still. Immigration enriches the U.S.
Oh you think the high number of immigrants entering the US is a good thing? Even if they are considered "legal" or "illegal"?
Oh you think the high number of immigrants entering the US is a good thing? Even if they are considered "legal" or "illegal"?
For free trade, against this agreement. This agreement is not free trade at all - it is a crony capitalist behemoth. On top of that it has horrific hidden provisions...the crooks in Congress basically tried to sneak SOPA/CISPA in hoping nobody would notice. It is an unacceptable piece of garbage that anyone who cares about economic and personal freedom should be against.
Agreed, and we are.
". . . An accurate description of TPP might go something like this: “The vast majority of trade affected by the deal would be between the United States and countries that are either high-wage developed nations, or moderate-income emerging economies. The deal would enhance the free-trade pacts the United States already has with some countries in both categories. Any modest risk to U.S. jobs from increased Vietnamese and Malaysian imports would be offset, at least in part, by improved U.S. access to their markets, and to that of Japan. TPP is about not only economics but also the geopolitical benefits of making already close ties between the United States and this strategic region even closer.”. . . "
Nice opinion piece. He might as well weigh in, everybody else is.
So you don't dispute the facts?
Facts, lol. It's an "opinion" piece, says so at the top. It's a nice opinion, and I think he makes some good points, as do so many others for and against it. But the negotiators are corporate execs and industry lobbyists. There's nothing that he or yourself can say to remove my suspicions. I'll wait to see what's rolled out.
Still nothign relevant I see.cpwill;1064619211 said:What, you mean like how it is also a pretty good-sized foreign policy victory,
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