Posted on 12/31/2013 11:28:29 AM PST by 1rudeboy
Could you repost the links that you refer to? Or possibly send me a private message with them. I’d like to read/view them. Thanks.
Which are you interested in? I explained trade deficits, national debt, national deficits and the benefits of free trade.
Those regarding free trade, thanks.
It looks like the Trans Pacific Partnership issue is heating up again, with supporters from both parties. How has NAFTA worked out for us? Here is some commentary that sounded very troubling and refers to the new Congress.
We need to organize quickly. President Obama and the new Congress are moving to pass Fast Track legislation which will permit the President to sign secret trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) before Congress sees them and restrict Congress from determining what impacts the TPP will have on our health, economy, communities and planet.
We know what previous trade agreements like NAFTA have done to outsource jobs and lower wages, block efforts to protect public health, expanded inequality and increase our deficit. The TPP is a whole new breed. We call it “NAFTA on steroids.” The reason the TPP has been negotiated in secret and is being pushed through Congress in this unconstitutional and undemocratic way is because it contains provisions that will give corporations even more power to determine our laws even down to the local level and remove our power to fight back.
Thank you for the ping.
When progressives of either party call NAFTA, GATT, and their descendents “free trade”, we should remember that these are the same people who call taxes “contributions,” and who call government social spending “investments.”
paraphrased from
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1996/mar96/psrmar96.html
What about progressives who call it “’NAFTA on steroids?’” You fell for it. LOL
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