Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement – It Isn’t

[pampango]

9. That's probably what would have been posted about FDR's International Trade Organization back in the day

on DU if it had existed.

FDR's whole economic preference for lowering tariffs early in his administration and later promoting international trade, labor rights, business regulation and full employment through multilateral organizations run cooperatively by many countries would have been scorned by some on DU. What about our sovereignty? What about our democracy? How can you allow foreigners who help run these organizations to have a say in what the US government does? Maybe France and Germany can learn to cooperate but the US cooperates with no one!

(Fortunately, for "DU'ers" back in the day, the republican congress of the late 1940's rejected the ITO.)

Is certainly not a progressive and has more in common with the republican party...at least on economic issues.

If true, one would not expect the majority of Democrats to support it and the vast majority of republicans (particularly the most conservative wing) to oppose it.