Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues?

[Armstead]

205. NAFTA included provisionbs that made it eassier and more attractive to remove econoimic sovergnty

Underlying the bureaucratic goibbleydegook language, it basically crated a system where individual nations in NA surrender the ability to set their own standards and -- yes quotas-- for the production of goods and services.

The problem with all of these "trade" policies is that they actually have very little to do with trade. It is simply forcing g participating nations into a political, economic, social straightjackets based on the most rapacious corporate values -- rather than civic or social ones -- if they want to participate in export and import markets.

It is pushing the global economy down to the worse levels, rather than raising all boars.

It also made "protectionism" a dirty word. But the root of that word is "protect," as in protecting a nation's domestic economy.

That is a shit state of affairs that is steadily ruining the US economy for many reasons. It is also undermining our civil and social fabric.

And they are not doing anything to protect workers and other members of societies in other countries either because of the values the standards are based on.