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In reply to the discussion: Are University Professors overpaid? [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)especially HRC's. Bernie Sanders is pretending that these deals, which were all the result of negotiations that few Americans are aware of, don't exist. Which is a good argument perhaps for their elimination or invalidation, because f lack of legitimacy.
For example, in health care, we've had almost a decade of health care reform that NOT ONCE has mentioned the fact that the exact same deal is the main obstacle to affordable health care.
They arent mentioning it probably because they want to use what i consider to be fake artificial crises to push down the barrers to cross border trade in services, greatly lowering wages
instead of raising wages in the countries with very low wages, they may well be trying to use international organizations like the WTO to lower wages here down to that level- in a way they can blame on others.
Remember the very public argument between Elizabeth Warren and Obama about whether an external organization like the WTO could tell us to change laws here?