It isn't about education or competitiveness. TPP is about shipping jobs to Vietnam - $5/day.

[JDPriestly]

23. In short, free trade and the TPP and TPIP are about making human beings and their

labor, creativity and lives into commodities to be bought and sold like so much lard or oil or potato chips. That's what it is really about.

It is immoral. It is cruel. It will draw all of us back into a dark age of anger and revenge and for most of us ever more difficult lives.

Today we are trying to fight against the Chinese industrial revolution. We are doing that by trying to find new slave laborers in even poorer countries to service our markets and destroy our workers' standard of living.

[b]Free trade is a form of economic cannibalism in which country by country we try to reduce the living standard, that is eat the fat from each other. That is not the way to build a working world economy.

If the TPP were based on moral considerations and did something other than further make human labor a commodity rather than the socially useful, wonderful effort and joy that it could be and should be, then we would be seeing it even if it is a work in progress. We would be reading it. But instead we are getting a huge propaganda campaign aimed to sell us on this horrible agreement so that when we read it we will have difficulty reading it for what it really is. This TPP must be very awful, worse than we can imagine if it has to be sold to us this hard.