100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals.

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49. Tell that to President Obama.

The imbalance in the representation on the trade commissions speaks for itself. In the US, labor, working people are under-represented in every facet of this administration. Sure, there are a few token seats saved for the unimportant so that they won't appear to be left out, but there are not enough seats to permit working people to have any influence.

I went to the trade commission sites that Pro Sense listed with an attitude of unbiased curiosity. I was shocked at what I found. It is worse than I could ever have suspected.

And, sorry, but while trade and good labor policy in the abstract are not mutually exclusive, just look at the record since Nixon opened up relations with China in the 1970s, and you will see a slow-starting but steadily increasing to a fever pitch of shift in our economy from manufacturing to service. And a service economy is inevitably a low-wage and inefficient economy.

Trade is good for those who buy and sell influence and who have money stacked up off-shore. The trade that we have encouraged through our give-away trade agreements is detrimental to the jobs, to the laborers of our country and to America in the long run.

The US economy has been harmed by every trade agreement we have entered into. We are trading on our past reputation as a major industrial power. Our GDP is a phony measure. It measures monetized exchanges in the public marketplace. Having lived in other countries in which much of the work is not as monetized as ours, I think the GDP as we measure it is not all that relevant to the success of the nation or economy.

Service jobs are pretty much a dead end. Increasingly, more of even our service jobs are performed overseas at low rates only to be billed here at high cost.

I think that the entire trade policy of the US is detrimental to the American people.