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JDPriestly

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3. Bernie says we have lost 60,000 manufacturing plants and 5 million decent-paying jobs since 2001.

Reply to mmonk (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 5, 2015, 02:24 PM

Oct 2015

And now we are being set-up to bleed more factories and more jobs.

When does it end?

When do we stand up for our country and for the American people instead of for the corporations and their profits?

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Here are winners and losers from the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal [View all] cal04 Oct 2015 OP

From an e-mail from Bernie this morning: JDPriestly Oct 2015 #1

The losers are the American people. mmonk Oct 2015 #2

Bernie says we have lost 60,000 manufacturing plants and 5 million decent-paying jobs since 2001. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #3

It ends with this country is bled dry TM99 Oct 2015 #4

Watch our trade deficit explode. That's where you can see the blood of our country shed on the JDPriestly Oct 2015 #6

Bernie is right. Manufacturing employment peaked in 1979 at about 19.5 million. Went to pampango Oct 2015 #10

Not nearly enough to justify yet another give-away trade deal that helps corporations and hurts JDPriestly Oct 2015 #12

Imports are 13% of our economy. They are 30% in Germany and Sweden, 25% in France and Canada. pampango Oct 2015 #13

I do not like the WTO. I think that sovereign nations should control their own destinies and JDPriestly Oct 2015 #14

That's fine. FDR did not agree and promoted the ITO with GATT which became the WTO. pampango Oct 2015 #16

A handful of winners, 350,000,000 losers. Scuba Oct 2015 #5

Specious analyst Populist_Prole Oct 2015 #7

Yes. The textile industry is being decimated here in the US. closeupready Oct 2015 #8

That's why the happy talk is stated in broad, specious terms Populist_Prole Oct 2015 #9

Winners = some of the top 0.1%. Losers = everyone else n/t mhatrw Oct 2015 #11

+ Double-plus It. Octafish Oct 2015 #15