Kaminsky is stupid. Obama campaigned against NAFTA too, but then pushed TPP. Hillary was for TPP before she was against it, and even suggested she might change her position on TPP again later.
The Uniparty is all in favor of “free trade” because that is what the money interests demand, regardless of what they say to get elected. Cruz included. He campaigned for TPA, and only turned against it at the last minute.
1. In any financial transaction, buyers will seek the lowest price possible. At the same time, sellers will look for the highest price possible.
2. An employment arrangement involves a "buyer" (the employer) and a "seller" (a worker).
3. One of the simple realities of an economy is that a worker will usually demand far more for his/her services than he/she would ever pay another worker for the same services.
Point #3 underlies almost every policy decision that is made by a government in a modern, advanced country like ours where labor costs are extremely high. "Free trade" gives us the ability to do things in a foreign trade situation that we'd never be allowed to do under the law right here in the U.S. -- namely, paying workers less than our statutory minimum wages, buying products that are made in factories that violate every environmental standard under our laws and fail to meet minimal worker safety standards, etc.
What’s good for business is good for all Americans. Businesses don’t survive if they don’t have happy customers. Trickle-down economics work. Free trade rules. Capitalism rocks.
The kind of “free trade” we have now does not benefit the working or rather in our case in the US the non working American.