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In reply to the discussion: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)31. And if we were doing that, the TPP might be a good idea. We're not doing that. (nt)
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S. Korea places arbitrary safety regulations to keep my company's products out of their market
Kolesar
Jan 2014
#1
how about trade agreements that don't travel so far afield and stick to, you know, actual, trade
cali
Jan 2014
#2
As flawed as this thing seems to be, perhaps just another 'free trade' agreement is what Obama
pampango
Jan 2014
#10
The European arrangement is a great example of a 'high standards' trade agreement.
pampango
Jan 2014
#11
Just let corporations sue villages for hurting their future profits, judged by
magical thyme
Jan 2014
#13
Tell that to Europeans. They seem to make 'free trade', democracy and income equality coexist. n/t
pampango
Jan 2014
#23
And if we were doing that, the TPP might be a good idea. We're not doing that. (nt)
jeff47
Jan 2014
#31
I agree. But, on some level, I think that high standards were Obama's original goal.
pampango
Jan 2014
#33
I did not mean to defend 'voluntary' self-oversight by corporations. Quite the opposite.
pampango
Jan 2014
#42
Then WHY are you pimping the "High Standards" that have so far been completely absent...
bvar22
Jan 2014
#43
I don't consider posting what I find about the original goals of the TPP to be 'pimping'.
pampango
Jan 2014
#44
Nestle corporation sued Maine village after Maine village for the right to drill for our water
magical thyme
Jan 2014
#39
From the OP: "As has frequently been noted, the TPP is not really about trade."
pampango
Jan 2014
#12
"This is in spite of the fact that Mexico had the second slowest growth on any country in
Progressive dog
Jan 2014
#14
Makes you think that the US would have lost those jobs eventually to wherever Mexico lost them
pampango
Jan 2014
#15
The number of manufacturing jobs has been going down at at steady rate since 1955.
pampango
Jan 2014
#30
Manufacturing jobs have declined in all developed countries at the same rate as in the US.
pampango
Jan 2014
#34
It seems to me that NAFTA gets blamed for things that went on for decades and happened equally in
pampango
Jan 2014
#38
Unlike Everyone Else, Some Big Political Donors Know What’s in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
octoberlib
Jan 2014
#20