Why are you so *angry*, Manny?

[JDPriestly]

47. Don't adopt the TPP. Change our trade agreements to protect American jobs -- not too much

but enough so that Americans have a chance to compete and earn the wages they need to survive in our domestic economy. Change our trade agreements and start making things, producing more ordinary things, more steel, start innovating more here and employing Americans to produce the new products we innovate and then we will have real change and jobs, jobs, jobs.

Today I shopped for blue jeans. I saw one rack of flimsy-looking cardigans that were Made in the USA. Everything else was made in Asia. Every imported item we buy means a higher unemployment rate for Americans. It is as simple as that.

Change our trade policy just a little. We don't have to become isolationist. We just have to encourage companies to employ Americans through our tax and incentive system. That's how we can improve the job situation and our country. When people can't get jobs, they lose hope for a better life. That either has to change or people will turn to those who provide absurd and even dangerous but at least some hope. Right now a lot of people do not have much hope.

The economy has improved a little, but not nearly enough, not nearly enough. And there is too little discussion about how to improve it faster and more. The TPP is not the way. It will drag us down further.

One reason I don't think Hillary should run in 2016 is that she will be haunted by slogans about the damage that NAFTA has caused to the American job market. That is going to happen, and it will be a disaster.