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In reply to the discussion: Australia walks away from Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal talks [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Doctors Without Borders don't want it. Unions don't want it. But conservatives do want it. This is part of the class war being waged by the conservatives and corporations.
They are including in the Agreement, a package that will designate something like $400 million to be used to compensate those Americans that will lose their jobs. They are admitting that Americans will lose jobs, hello. It looks like the money will come from Medicare, or maybe the taxpayers, certainly not from the corporations that will profit from it. And what good is compensation for Americans that lose their jobs? Training for non-existant jobs? Food stamps?
Conservatives claim that this will help the economy grow and that's how Clinton proposes to fix the wealth gap. But we all know that rising tides only lift yachts.