Obama's playing 3D chess - TPP. We just gotta trust him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. It is by defintion, under international law., part of the agreement

it goes with it. Since they are attached to the original agreement.

AFTER NAFTA treaties have had them in the agreement and they are just as much dead letter anyway.

Why do you think you had people leaving by the thousands Central America last summer? Why do you think you had a very well documented migration from Mexico to the US in the 1990s?

Last summer it was not just CAFTA, but it was one of the reasons and predicted by social scientists who study these treaties and effects on places like the country side of these nations. It was also predicted due to what happened with NAFTA.

I know some folks really want to trust that this time it will be diferent. But every other treaty has had nasty effects in worker protections and environmental protections, among other things.

Einstein put it best about insanity and doing things over and over again, it will not be different this time. More good paying jobs will flee the US, including whatever remains of the textile industry in the south. Our trade deficit will continue to grow, and worker protection will continue to go down. Oh and climate change, this does not help climate change whatsoever. It will have other nasty effects, like quite possibly ending made in America clauses for DoD contracting, which is just a bad idea from a national security point of view. It will definitely continue with the deindustrialization of the country.

It will also increase the transfer of wealth from the middle classes, whatever remains of them, to the upper 0.0001 percent.

This will stop, sooner or later, but winds and whirlwind come to mind.