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TM99

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4. It ends with this country is bled dry
Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #3)
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 02:37 PM
Oct 2015

like the banana republic that it is and the wealthy oligarchs move elsewhere leaving a devastated society behind them with nary a bat of the eye.

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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
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