What you say is true but it’s not the trade ‘documents’ that are doing the shafting, it’s the presidents who use them.
Similar to the argument that it’s not guns that kill people, it’s the people using the guns that kill people.
Ted is well aware that prior trade agreements have shafted American workers. But in his case there are American assets that other countries are begging for that would create millions of secure high-paying jobs for Americans. For example there is an ENORMOUS surplus in natural gas (NG) in the USA. Asia and Europe are begging for Americans to export their NG surplus as LNG. They will buy all they can get. But Obama will not let it happen, Ted Cruz most certainly will have LNG approved for export.
Obama won’t let the 1.5 trillion dollars US corporations have in foreign profits be brought back here at a small tax rate. All that money could help plant and job hires.
Ted is always talking about this
Countries that need the commodities will buy them with or without an agreement. I do not like anything about the agreements congress is trying to pass now. TPA is supposed to be a framework in which the Congress sets goals for the President to negotiate. Obama has been negotiating the TPP secretly for years now, so how will that work? How can the Congress give him a groundwork when he has already negotiated most of it? I also do not like the fact that congress has never defeated a TPA negotiated agreement, which is understandable because these agreement remove most of the constitutional safeguards normally in place for legislation. What makes anybody think this time will be different? I do not see any reason to even consider this while Obama is in office. Giving Obama even more authority than he already has is not why the Republicans won such a huge victory last year. On top of all that, secret legislation is just plain un-American and should never be considered just on principle.