Dems Paint Romney as “Outsourcer-In-Chief,” But Will Obama’s Trade Deal Blow It?

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21. They work to the advantage of wealthy stockholders, not middle-class workers in the US.

So, in one sense, they work. They do exactly what they are supposed to do.

If any of these so-called "free-trade" agreements worked to the advantage of middle-class workers in the United States, it would not be necessary to keep these so-called "free-trade" agreements somewhat secretive. All the politicans who favored them would be crowing about them.

We want to break into the markets in those countries? In what way? The military-industrial complex sells war machinery to those in foreign countries. Those that own and/or control commodities sell such commodities to foreign countries. Trees from public land, for example, is being harvested in Alaska and being shipped to foreign countries so that they can manufacture wood products. Coal is loaded on ocean-going ships in Duluth, Minnesota and shipped to foreign countries so that they can manufacture iron and steel, and products made from iron and steel. The big money people are exploiting and selling off resources like owners in third-world countries.

No one is claiming that the pending wage-lowering, let's-send-more-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreement is going to produce more middle-class jobs in this country. It's not going to happen.