The Choice Is Not Between TPP Or No Trade

economyincrisis ^ | 3/29/16 | Lori Wallach

[central_va]

Having lived with the damaging results over the past decades, it should be no surprise that many Americans are against these corrupt special interest trade policies.

[central_va]

The high-profile presidential primary revolt against decades of damaging American trade policy finally has forced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) into mainstream media coverage.

The usual free-trade-agreement cheerleading squad of chronic-job-offshoring corporations, Wall Street, agribusiness and their coterie of think tanks and pundits are unnerved.

After spending billions in campaign contributions, lobbying and PR since the 1990s to enact our current trade policies, they want us to believe there is no alternative. In recent weeks, they have ginned up a PR campaign with two main themes: Critics of free trade agreements in general and the TPP in specific are protectionists who want to stop trade and/or are ignorant and misled.

The recent Washington Post piece by Vice President Biden’s former chief economist Jared Bernstein does a great job explaining why the real choice is not between TPP and no trade. As he notes, we don’t need more free trade agreements to expand trade.

[driftdiver]

If those are the options why do we have trade now?

We’re giving our knowledge, our money, or corporations to our competition. Our banks will loan millions to some IT guy working out of a shack in India but won’t even talk to Americans.

[central_va]

Both parties are anti American for differnt reasons.

[stocksthatgoup]

“No deal is better than a bad deal!” RR

[PJBankard]

Well there it is. Only took 4 posts. Thread can be closed.

[central_va]

“No deal is better than a bad deal!” RR

Free Traitors™ would have you believe if there was a complete embargo of imported goods we would all die. Sure there would be supply chain disruption and a need to re industrialize. 2 years we would be self sufficient.

[driftdiver]

Oh its the same reason. Both have been compromised by the same groups for the same reason, the one world govt.

Most of our big corporations are either run by foreigners or have such heavy foreign investments that they don’t put America first.

[central_va]

Amazing how many Free Traitors™ post on Free Republic.

[VitacoreVision]

How the Free Trade Agenda Is Knocking Down America
-- The New American (PDF) Special Report
http://www.thenewamerican.com/files/TNA2917.pdf

The Special Report includes the following articles:

- The "Free Trade" Agenda Threatens Our Rights
- Global Merger: Piece by Piece
- The EU: Regionalization Trumps Sovereignty
- Trade Promises... and Trade Reality
- North American Union: From NAFTA to the NAU
- Fast-track: Enabler of the "Free Trade" Agenda
- Regional Scheme for the Pacific Rim
- EU/U.S. -- Transatlantic Convergence

[combat_boots]

The globalists are carving us up. Our people will be droned or stoned. And dead by 60. At a maximum.

Except them, of course.

[cba123]

There is an entire huge section of mainstream Republicans who are (completely) sold out to China.

Bigtime. Despite the fact that China does not return trade policy breaks in America’s direction.

That is in fact, partly what is driving Donald Trump, and a huge chunk of his supporters.

[central_va]

There is an entire huge section of mainstream Republicans who are (completely) sold out to China.

Congress has been corrupted by foreign influence peddlers.

[1rudeboy]

Lori Wallach, Green leftist and Ralph Nader handmaiden is back! I miss Willie Green and the rest of the boys and girls.

[Mase]

Indeed. Seeing Willie Green's name reminds me that we haven't seen an article from Alan Tonelson in years.

Watching FReepers side with the likes of Public Citizen is, well, different.

[DoughtyOne]