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GitRDun

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3. hyperbole
Sun Sep 6, 2015, 03:33 PM
Sep 2015

You are free to make it a political issue if you wish, but since its passing means a mere 17% of our trade deficits are from countries with US trade agreements, showing / not showing is irrelevant to me. I will assume there are corporate goodies in there, always is.

I can also assume it will be rare we use the agreements to legally challenge other countries' trade practices as that is our history.

I want to hear what the candidates are going to do to stop trade imbalance, that's our kitchen table issue. India, China, others as well, are not covered by agreements. If I were going to ask the candidates a question about trade, I would ask:

Bernie Sanders: What can be done about the trade imbalances with China and India and other countries, where production costs are so much lower than here in the US?

Hillary Clinton: How do you think the TPP will impact labor costs for trading partners like Maylasia and Vietnam, where labor costs are 10% of what they are here in the US?

Hyperbole can be deflected. I am saying change the discussion.

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