President Obama Weekly Address: Fighting for Trade Deals that Put American Workers First

[sabrina 1]

32. So we don't know. Which is why Democrats are correct to oppose it.

You just went from one extreme to another. Without stating why that would be necessary.

When you have a problem, which we do, nearly a million jobs lost since NAFTA, a huge trade deficit, which is what happens when a country is no longer producing anything to sell, Congress needs to make this problem a huge issue because they are our Representatives in Government.

You don't throw up your hands and say 'we can either just vote blindly for something negotiated by the Executive Branch or do nothing.

That isn't what we hire politicians to do.

I have a better suggestion, now that this deal has been done, in secret, put before Congress, not to vote up or down without having any ability to change things that are good for Corporations (who wrote the bill, so I'm not hopeful they wrote it with the people's interests in mind) but bad for the people.

Iow, do it the Democratic way. Let Congress add amendments, take out stuff that is harmful to the American people etc.

IS there a reason why letting Congress represent those who hired them, has become so controversial?