Breaking: Obama To Drop Social Security Cuts In His Budget

[JoePhilly]

64. What does that have to do with Obama's evil plan to kill SS?

Did I pass one purity test, so we move on to another?

Whatever ... I am currently ambivalent about TPP, for a few reasons.

1) The information about it, so far, is a jumble. All trade agreements are not evil, although trade agreements can be. I've yet to find any source that seems credible on either side of it.

2) At one time I came to DU because it was a great place to find objective information. While I still use DU that way, its also become a place for endless freak-outs on topics like Social Security. What I find is that the louder DU gets about some topic, the more freaked out it gets, the LESS likely the info is to be accurate.

Now, at this point, the negotiations around TPP are moving rather slow. Many nations unable to agree on a rather wide variety of topics. Some discussion about ways to improve work conditions in other countries, and also some hair on fire stuff about how global trade is going to kill us all. But the info is all over the map.

So at this point, its not near the top of my issues list. We need global trade. We also need to make sure it doesn't hurt American workers. At this pace, and with the current Congress, TPP won't move much.

Now, on global trade, take the recent VW Union vote in Tennessee. VW is concerned, as are its German workers because they don't want US workers being a drag on THEIR wages. VW is now questioning if opening locations in the US South is a good idea because of GOP interference. That's actually a good sign.

We live in a global economy, and that's not going to change. So that means we will have trade agreements. And so, before we freak out, before I freak out, I want to see details ... not just the standard DU screaming, nor the standard rah-rah that's also out there in other sources currently.