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In reply to the discussion: Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP [View all]Demsrule86
(71,523 posts)trade deals profited Wall Street and big business while throwing workers under the bus got played. The TPP allowed slavery. It was a bad deal; most of those sort of agreements are...we can't walk away from them, but the next Democrat should examine and restructure them and enforce the wage and social welfare requirements...and if we continue to support such things, we will lose elections. My hubs worked in autos...there are agreements as to how many cars different countries take...of course Japan and Korea take no American cars and China makes you build them there...Germany was supposed to take so many of the cars hub's company made in a trade agreement...they took half and.... said not taking the rest...Bush II was in office then and even though Germany was not honoring the agreement, he let it slide...this is always the way...we live up to the letter of the law and other countries stab us in the back...thousands of cars built specifically for the German market were scrapped. We are a huge market and are doing to ourselves what England did...they gave away their manufacturing by allowing the corporations to export it to cheaper areas...they lost their empire and can barely feed themselves...there is a reason Brexit went through...the economy is a mess with the safety net in tatters.