ALERT: DFA Warning New TPP Provision Would Cut Medicare $700 Million to Help Pay for Trade Aid

[Joe Turner]

52. Nice to know backers of TPP realize that workers will need assistance if it is passed

At least the unmitigated BS that TPP will create good, high paying jobs in America had been discreetly dropped in the trash can of unsellable garbage. Of course the latest BS line is that "we live in a global economy" as if the last 10,000 years have not existed. It's like this: In the real world there are trade policies that works to the advantage of a nation's interest and there are trade policies that don't. Let me submit to you that the "free trade" paradigm that started under the Reagan administration and embraced by nearly all republicans and so-called democrats like you has killed most manufacturing in this country and predictably lowered the standard of living for a large majority of Americans. If you think that this kind of corporate welfare act, heaped on other corporate welfare acts is a reality that cannot be avoided you better start explaining how nations like Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland-to name of few, can operate in this new global reality of cheap labor while running huge trade surpluses. They are aren't stupid, we are for being the only country that buys into the notion that the letting corporations run wild and dropping all tariffs is a good idea.