5000 pages of TPP doesn’t sound like “free” trade. It sounds like a grab-bag of special interest side-deals, and if Obama is for it, those deals won’t be a net benefit to the USA. Of course, we don’t know what’s in it, as the deal is secret.
I can understand secrecy in negotiations in order to get the deal done, but not hiding it from us after the deal is on paper and subject to voting.
Bear in mind that according to the few crumbs of information that have leaked, only five of the 23 chapters of TPP are about trade; the rest are a sort of international governance treaty of the type Obama loves and the US always gets screwed over in.
I don’t know how anyone can be “for” it without knowing what it actually is.
We just had another thread that said that it was 6000 pages, and there's a live one right now that the 6K pages are only 14% of the total but there remaining are so secret that even our competitors don't know what's in there.
Yes, too true.
The fanatic free traders are akin to the pro-aborts. Any restriction or even a discussion about restrictions sets them to frothing at the mouth - one prophesying back-alley procedures...the other warning of bread lines and soup kitchens.