After Attacking Warren, Obama Having Trouble Selling TPP to Fellow Dems

[JDPriestly]

46. You state precisely my thoughts when it comes to the argument

that we have to give up our economic future in order to "help" the poor in underdeveloped countries. I'm all for helping them, but let the super-rich in our country pay the cost of helping them. I do not want my neighbors and our American children and grandchildren to pay the overly high price that we ordinary people are paying for this important assistance to the poor around the world.

If you hob-nob with the D.C. in-crowd, if you live on the West Side of Los Angeles or La Jolla or Bel Air or certain other parts of the country, you assume that Americans are all rich and can afford to sacrifice to help others. But then you come to the East side of Los Angeles, to the South of Los Angeles, to the poor countryside in the US, to bankruptcy courts, to family law courts, to our prisons and jails and you realize that we still need more jobs, many more jobs than we have. If NAFTA had resulted in an increase in American production and jobs, then their would be no resistance to the TPP. But the fact is that NAFTA has hurt Americans in too many ways to count.

No to the TPP. It's a corporate coup. I'm not even getting into the more complex issues of the international arbitration court set up just to help businesses and the questions about the constitutional conflicts with the portions of the agreement we have seen.