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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Senate Reaches Agreement To Move Fast-Track Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Authority [View all]ieoeja
(9,748 posts)27. Thing to remember, Obama is a Harvard graduate.
Harvard teaches that the full globalization package works.
Half of it did. Globalization has been great for the worlds poor. Pre-internet days I worked with our Jakarta Indonesia office on a networking problem. I stayed up all night working with them without finding anything wrong until they had to leave at the close of their business day. I pointed out that I stayed all night to work with them on their problem. They told me they had to leave before the power company shut down for the night and the elevators stopped working.
Networking problem solved. Computers, as you may not know if youre not a great computer whiz like myself, do not run well without electricity.
The high rise office building sat on a dirt road! Today, its a bustling metropolis that wouldnt look out of place in the United States.
But Globalization failed the American working stiff. That is because the 401(k) failed to work as they thought it would. By now we were all supposed to be so heavily invested in 401(k) that few of us would need to work. So it didnt matter if jobs went overseas. We shouldnt need jobs.
And many of them really do believe this. Sure, some are just screwing us. But lots and lots of them believe this theory whole heartedly. And cant seem to grasp the fact that it didnt work.
So Obama is just a product of Harvard which teaches that it works.
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BREAKING: Senate Reaches Agreement To Move Fast-Track Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Authority [View all]
Cali_Democrat
May 2015
OP
It didn't even take a day, just a few hours after the vote Harry was floating this plan
Autumn
May 2015
#11
Do you think the currency manipulation bill stands an ice cubes chance in hell of passing?
Autumn
May 2015
#18
Appears it is in there, but as a separate bill. Not sure what it says, so might not be
Hoyt
May 2015
#28
Exactly, what was it all for? Hope and effort built up again to see defeat-and this quick-
appalachiablue
May 2015
#30
When it comes to international negotiations, amending agreements is pretty much a non-starter
Cali_Democrat
May 2015
#23
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians And Media That Own And Control Us
cantbeserious
May 2015
#38