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In reply to the discussion: Weekly Address: Fighting for Trade Deals that Put American Workers First [View all]BumRushDaShow
(174,162 posts)In fact, this is a HUGE issue... Which is why ARRA was put in place right in the midst of the economic crash, and the auto companies were bailed out, as well as the push for a living wage despite the GOP clowns in Congress. But access to health care is also a big issue (notably for those without jobs), as well as civil rights and voting rights extended to ALL, not just the "select few".
Even if the awful TPP gets torpedoed and is no longer a "thing", there will still be those of us who continue to be followed, harassed, denied employment, denied housing, and denied the ability to vote without encountering more and more hurdles... let alone being denied the right to even walk or ride down the street or visit a store without being hunted, targeted, stopped, arrested, beaten, or killed for what we look like and/or who we are (where even our children are not immune to this travesty).