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In reply to the discussion: Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That is why it is the big issue.
If Obama wants to help the middle class recover and create jobs, why is he promoting the TPP? The TPP will cost us jobs and further harm our ballooning trade deficit. Obama should have stopped the negotiations on the agreement before they started.
And NSA is a big issue because of the development of the internet and the almost complete control of our lives that the NSA's use of the data from the internet and our other electronic communications could give it.
We all support a higher minimum wage and protection for the safety net, but we have to get beyond the Republican Congress to get them.
I live in a strongly Democratic district. Not much I can do to get Republicans out of Congress.
The Democratic Party has to do it, and in order to do it, they need to really represent working people. Sponsoring TPP is not the way to let working people know you are on their side.