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AZ Progressive

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2. You are damn right, business people have been seeing Asia as the new center of the world

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2015, 12:31 AM

May 2015

and the U.S. and Europe as "has beens"

Corporations are unpatriotic and don't give a shit about America anymore, and the move since the 70s to go global has added to this. American workers have no bargaining power anymore against corporations that are global, because they are "free" from America.

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Forget It US Business/Intl Corps Will Not Create Decent Jobs. Their Focus Is Global. NOT HERE! [View all] TheMastersNemesis May 2015 OP

A systematic destruction of the middle class is leading to modern day profit slavery. And there's... ChisolmTrailDem May 2015 #1

You are damn right, business people have been seeing Asia as the new center of the world AZ Progressive May 2015 #2

Darn right, the rest of the world doesn't deserve to share in the wealth. Screw them. Hoyt May 2015 #3

We deserve a lower standard of living. mmonk May 2015 #4

Is your standard of living decreasing? Do you deserve more than someone in another country just Hoyt May 2015 #5

I don't know about you, but my ancestors fought for a country in which people could live JDPriestly May 2015 #8

America First. Heard it before. Hoyt May 2015 #10

If international trade resulted in a lot of jobs or even replaced the jobs we lose when JDPriestly May 2015 #11

I doubt we'll lose many jobs under TPP, although China might. Hoyt May 2015 #12

In the NAFTA debates, my union still adhered to something like the Wobblies. We need global labor freshwest May 2015 #7

I would love to see our unions working in other countries, but that's not likely. Good post. Hoyt May 2015 #9

If that's not likely, then it puts our unions and our labor standards in jeopardy. JDPriestly May 2015 #13

I believe it will do something for us, not to mention the rest of the world. I'm really not Hoyt May 2015 #14

K&R. JDPriestly May 2015 #6