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Populist_Prole

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10. Strawman

Reply to kelliekat44 (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 10:05 AM

Nov 2015

This type of labor arbitrage has gone on long before TPP; and it's not "whining" to bring up the massive amount of US job loss from "free trade".

You are obviously in favor of both though.

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