Enough! Can we stop the divisive anti-TPP @#$%-stirring?

[Scootaloo]

78. You know it's a "Free Trade agreement," right?

Do you know anything about the effects of prior "free trade agreements"?

This is literally all that you need to know. because I promise you, flat-out promise you, that nothing in this agreement will strengthen US jobs, empower labor, raise our wages, lower our prices (except perhaps for foam rubber shit from China), diversify our economy, or decrease US poverty.

Free trade agreements never do that. They are designed not to do any of that. because free trade is all about the free movement of capital between the people who already have it, and not actually about helping hte people who don't in any way. Most of them in fact act as a money press, squeezing those at the lower end of hte income spectrum in order to juice out hte last bits of wealth for those at the top.

But by all means. Feel secure in your belief that ignorance somehow protects you from reality. That because you don't know the specific details, means that this one will deliver all the medicine our economy needs - in spite of the fact that it is simply not in the nature of the beast.