Why is it so hard for Obama & Co. to understand our skepticism over the TPP?

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42. Global population growth is a greater concern than global warming...

There is a theory:

https://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/population-and-urbanization-17/population-growth-122/demographic-transition-theory-690-10230/

The theory discusses how industrialization changes population growth and decline.

Yes, it sucks that they've shipped good manufacturing jobs to Mexico and China, but this world has finite resources and when a poor country has a lot of large families, we have to witness millions of people suffering because of a lack of resources. Usually a shortage of food.

Young men and women that work long hours in sweat shops just to make enough to feed, cloth and house themselves do not plan for big families.

I don't believe for a minute that these trade agreements are put in place to create american jobs, I believe that they are put in place to control the population of pre-industrial countries by converting them to industrial nations. The reason our politicians don't tell us that this is what is going on is because we don't like it, but we like seeing starving folk on the TV even less.

We aren't going to return to being a nation of good manufacturing jobs... Period.

Robots have done considerably more to eliminate factory jobs than trade agreements and that's not likely to change.

As I've said before: what we need is a nationwide effort to create a good strong homeland with a huge effort toward 'food security'. Everybody has to eat and there are a lot of technologies than lend themselves to small travel time (and distance) for food. This is what we should invest in (as a nation). If more of us work at home, and sell our products locally, we don't need the manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing is where we came from, not where we need to go in order to have a sustainable food supply.

The problem with the TPP is that it enriches the already wealthy. Gives power to the already too powerful. The problem isn't the export of 'American manufacturing jobs' that part is inevitable. We have to put factory jobs in these countries to control their birth rates.

If the issue is that we are making the already wealthy even wealthier, we don't cut that short by stopping trade agreements, we raise taxes on the high earners. That's going to fix almost all of our problems. Destroying this trade agreement will not stop the export of american manufacturing jobs, raising taxes on the wealthy will at least balance the budget and create infrastructure jobs.

I don't think that the TPP is ''the problem' it's just another symptom.