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In reply to the discussion: Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues? [View all]ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Don't think American workers will be spared the worst of the effects of these free trade agreements. In the long run, the whole point of them, is to transfer more and more of the capital resources from the working class, to the elite class of human society, in the form of lower wages and the elimination of labor regulations on a global level, and also through the elimination of social services and environmental regulation by the signatory governments. All in all, free trade agreements represent the continuation of the overall trend of concentrating more of the worlds resources into fewer hands for the sake of profit, to the detriment of the biosphere and working class people. And wherever the money goes, so goes the political capital, and thus our ability to resist these agreements.