"China is not a part of TPP" Obama at presser live right now

[zipplewrath]

28. What problems will it solve?

I agree that the TPP won't solve all the world's problems. The struggle is to identify what "problems" it will solve, other than ensuring the profit margins of multinational corporations. There is little evidence that it will protect ANY workers in countries that don't actually want to, since the US has shown itself horribly unwilling to enforce labor provisions of previous and existing trade treaties. What makes us believe that future administrations will be any different? Similarly with environmental restrictions. One has to either believe that the country in question will already care, or that we will endeavor to enforce them, which we are loathe to do and would rather include it as an issue in larger diplomatic discussions. We can do that WITHOUT the treaty.

Again, no real case has been made beyond empowering multinationals to make more profits.