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ucrdem

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6. TPP, the class project from hell

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2015, 02:53 AM

Jul 2015

Everyone but the teacher hates it, no one cops to understanding it, the other teachers hope it will crash and burn, entire years roll by with nothing finished, and still Obama presses on . . .

p.s. happy Bastille day

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U.S. weighs completing TPP without Canada: sources [View all] Recursion Jul 2015 OP

Delay the TPP as long as possible. London Lover Man Jul 2015 #1

Going back to the drawing table is our best option at this point Betty Karlson Jul 2015 #2

+1 Populist_Prole Jul 2015 #3

It must be a real piece of shit if Harper is dragging his feet on it. It could only mean water and Monk06 Jul 2015 #4

It's about Canadian subsidies to dairy farmers (nt) Recursion Jul 2015 #5

I can't be that, compared to oil and water the dairy market is nothing. Got some info? Monk06 Jul 2015 #7

It's in the article. The US wants Canada to decrease subsidies to Canadian dairy farmers Recursion Jul 2015 #8

The dairy industry isn't subsidized it's price protected with a set floor price to protect producers Monk06 Jul 2015 #9

TPP is, in part, about destroying small-time agricultural producers Art_from_Ark Jul 2015 #11

We're both right if you take restricting out put to keep agricultural prices high as a form of Monk06 Jul 2015 #10

You're right, "subsidy" was a very simplistic way to put it Recursion Jul 2015 #12

TPP, the class project from hell ucrdem Jul 2015 #6