NYT 2009 American workers are overpaid. Gap must close. Happening now. Thanks, Obama.

[JDPriestly]

30. No to a reductioni n the American living standard.

I like clean water coming out of a faucet. I like my municipal sewer system. I like electric lights and air conditioning in stores and a heated house. I like public parks and schools and nice churches. i like all the things that American wages pay for.

Most important, I like to eat a variety of foods.

I utterly oppose trade agreements with countries that pay workers slave wages and expect Americans to live on less.

Those who own the factories and employ what is virtually slave labor at slave wages to work in them and then import the products made for slave wages into the US and charge us highly marked up prices then take the difference between what they paid for the product and what we pay for it are the only people who profit from free trade.

The people in other countries who work at boring jobs for barely enough to eat and we who lose our jobs and cannot afford the lifestyles of even our grandparents, we all lose.

Free trade benefits only the owners, only the top percent of the 1%. The rest of us lose out.

The New York Times subscription costs $468 per year.

http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8UHY7.html?campaignId=4QJXR&__KEYWORDS__=${keywordText}&__CAMP__=4QJXR

What American earning $10 per hour is going to work 46.8 hours per year to subscribe to the New York Times? It isn't going to happen.

Housing costs in our large cities are astronomical. Do we really want our children and grandchildren to live in slums like Rio de Janeiro, Brazil or Lima, Peru?

We do not want a reduced standard of living and that is one of the many reasons we do not want free trade.

The TPP is a corporate coup.