Calling Corporate-Backed Deals an "Indisputable" Good, Obama Makes Pitch for TTIP

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55. My, those are some rose-tinted glasses.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz on NAFTA:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43032.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-swenson/nafta-the-transpacific-clinton_b_5523327.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/04/nafta-20-years-mexico-regret

NAFTA has put at least 1.4 million farmers out of work in Mexico - escalating the drug war and illegal immigration, increased our trade deficits and depressed wages all around. It has allowed business to nullify labor and environmental standards in courts where potential profits are the only thing that matters. It has normalized the concept of "zones" where labor and environmental standards do not apply.

FTAs are a recipe for growing inequality and strife. They grant powerful international rights to the wealthy and no one else.

You say "there are more jobs now", but the population is also much larger now than in 1993. The jobs we do have are very insecure and pay little, the result of a race-to-the-bottom labor market. DUers for 15 years have successfully trashed FTAs like NAFTA... with data. I don't see how you're going to reverse that trend.