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Gene Debs

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13. "Standing up to big labor by ignoring their protectionist and backwards-looking attacks on the

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 12:51 PM

Jul 2016

Trans-Pacific Partnership."

I literally cannot believe I read that.

Standing up to 'big labor'."

Wow. Just...wow.

When did "big labor" become the monster and the TPP suddenly become a good thing? I would have expected to hear that from the stage in Cleveland, maybe.

If you want to look at it that way, it's like the way he stood up to big homosexual by hemming and hawing on marriage equality before Joe Biden forced his hand.

"Big labor."

Wow.

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