Hillary is the Free Trade Candidate: She Votes for Free Trade Deals, Despite Promises to Oppose Them

[amborin]

In 2007, she declared her opposition to a proposed free trade agreement with South Korea, citing concerns about the deal’s effects on the domestic manufacturing sector.

"It will hurt the U.S. auto industry, increase our trade deficit, cost us good middle-class jobs and make America less competitive,” she told the AFL-CIO.

Only a few years later, however, she pressed for the deal’s passage, personally pushing Democratic senators to back it.

Since the deal was ratified, the United States’ trade deficit with South Korea has grown.

According to EPI, that has cost an additional 75,000 U.S. jobs, mostly in manufacturing.

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/despite-walmart-ties-support-free-trade-hillary-clinton-touts-commitment-2323480

[Jitter65]

1. You either want to be a part of the world market or you don't. nt

[amborin]

2. that is a standard neo-liberal stance; you can be part of the world market w/o massive sacrifice

of US jobs

[mindem]

8. You either screw over American workers

or you don't. Americans shouldn't have to suffer or go backward to line corporate pockets. Give it a rest.

[LexVegas]

3. She is your frontrunner and soon to be nominee and President. nt

[pdsimdars]

5. you forgot the "bow your head" at the end there

[kgnu_fan]

4. She will lie about anything to get elected... easily manipulated by $$$$

[pdsimdars]

6. I think it was Stiglitz who said

that we should not be sacrificing our sovereignty to these trade deal. We have the best marketplace in the world, countries are dying to sell stuff here. We should let them bid to pay for access to our markets, not give away the store.
Something like that.

[peacebird]

7. She will say anything to get herself elected. She has not one iota of integrity or honesty.