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Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2013, 01:54 PM Sep 2013

Question -- If the TPP passes does that make [View all]

the Livable Wage movement DOA because it would price American workers out of the market?

I ask this because in a non-DU conversation I was told Obama might press for a livable wage to win back the base but it struck me these two policies operating concurrently would gut the middle class.

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Question -- If the TPP passes does that make [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 OP

Very good question. Little Star Sep 2013 #1

It does look like, from the little information about the TPP that has been leaked, djean111 Sep 2013 #2

That's worth repeating: woo me with science Sep 2013 #4

Any 'livable wage' is unlikely to pass Congress without the Democrats regaining the house and... PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #3

OK, but dream a dreamy little dream that we gain both houses solidly. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #6

They still go to china like they are doing now?... n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #7

Maybe faster. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #8

It's actually about the TPA passing. Without the TPA there is no TPP cali Sep 2013 #5