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nationalize the fed

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8. k/r

Reply to JohnyCanuck (Original post)

Wed May 27, 2015, 02:41 AM

May 2015

Enabling companies to move $30/hour jobs to countries with $.60/hour wages so a few billionaires can pocket the difference is not trade.

And there it is.

That's precisely what Sir James Goldsmith said, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson called him a luddite. The Young Hip Clinton NAFTA MAFIA were the cool people. Cool people scoffed at manufacturing jobs.

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Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement � It Isn�t [View all] JohnyCanuck May 2015 OP

From what I've read and learned of it, delrem May 2015 #1

I've been saying that for years. They're simply investment/outsourcing scams that have the added Elwood P Dowd May 2015 #2

The TPP is the baby of the conservatives. Progressives need to band together and rhett o rick May 2015 #3

Any democrat shilling for TPP Joe Turner May 2015 #4

yes. nm rhett o rick May 2015 #5

TPPeeing was started by George W. Bush in 2007. That's all you need to know. (nm) Elwood P Dowd May 2015 #6

That's probably what would have been posted about FDR's International Trade Organization back in the day pampango May 2015 #9

FDR never would have never opted to support corporate trade deals Joe Turner May 2015 #10

U.S. tariffs in 1980 were 2.9%. During Reagan's presidency they increased to 3.2%. pampango May 2015 #11

Nafta, the first of the corporate welfare trade deals was hatched under Reagan Joe Turner May 2015 #12

I agree with most what you posted. pampango May 2015 #13

fuck our resident TPP pimps Skittles May 2015 #7

k/r nationalize the fed May 2015 #8