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In reply to the discussion: One CAN BE a lifelong good Democrat AND support the TPP [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)31. Africa is poised to become the new Asia
French manufacturing jobs are already being sourced to Morocco and Algeria. It's become so important the French laid high speed telecommunications lines across the Med, and that will end up leading to IT jobs being sourced to African nations.
We're wasting too much time on TPP now, we need to ratify it already and prep for the coming changes in global labor sourcing that the entire African continent represents, and that will make the Asian outsourcing of the past two decades seem like just a warmup for the big game as there is far more in the way of untapped labor resources poised to put Asian people out of a job than there ever was when jobs started moving from North America and Europe to Asia.
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One can be right about many things and wrong about other things. This is news?
Scootaloo
Jun 2016
#1
Anti-TPP are not necessarily anti-trade and isolationist and if they are, they are wrong.
PufPuf23
Jun 2016
#10
Then perhaps you could post about something where you have more understanding?
PufPuf23
Jun 2016
#15
Please name some specifics on how the GATT approach is improved by neo-liberal free trade pacts.
PufPuf23
Jun 2016
#21
By using the mocking term "neo-liberal" you have made further discussion with you impossible. eom
MohRokTah
Jun 2016
#22
We can also admit that issues like trade are more complicated than just looking at job numbers.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#28
Yes, the labor component of manufacturing can be driven down to virtually zero...
Human101948
Jun 2016
#38
I remember when the fans were still denying TPP was even real, much less supporting it.
Marr
Jun 2016
#40
If a Republican president were pushing this corporate bullshit I'd bet you'd be against it
Teamster Jeff
Jun 2016
#42