Forget the DU created issues. How does Hillary not have an opinion on TPP?

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122. Sorry. I post an answer and then realize that is it is not complete.

When I say we can never go back to the environment of Hoover and Coolidge, I am referring to the fact that in terms of technology and population growth, we can never return to the isolation we sought at that time.

We have modern transportation, modern communication and modern healthcare among other things. They bind the world in ways that could not have been known at the time of Hoover and Coolidge and even FDR. The radio was new at least new in the homes of ordinary Americans at the time of FDR. Today, we communicate via Skype. We call our friends and family in foreign countries routinely.

So without the multinational trade structure and agreements, we would still have more international interaction and even trade than we dreamed possible under FDR.

I remember when I saw my first television set. I was in the fourth grade. It was something new that most of us could not afford.

I remember Sputnik. I remember wall phones and my grandmother yelling into the phone thinking that she would not be heard unless she talked really loudly. I remember my aunt sitting in the telephone office connecting wires. She was "Central." We will never return to that kind of isolated life.

We do not need these multinational trade agreements. We should be free to set tariffs and protect our labor and environmental standards as we wish. Same for other countries.

We should be free as should other countries, as a people, to decide whether we want certain types of investments, certain types of exploitation of our resources, etc. or not.

I am just waiting for a multinational corporation to go to a trade court and challenge our national park system and our protection of federal lands. Bound to happen. We should not submit ourselves and give up our sovereignty to the government by corporations that will be the ultimate outcome of our chaining ourselves to these trade agreements and trade courts. We have damaged ourselves enough with them already. If we, for instance, want international standards on air traffic and insurance of air traffic, let's agree to that independently of other kinds of agreements. Let's agree independently with each country with which we wish to agree.